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Benny sees fish for the 1st time. : cats
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I’ll take your Adolf and raise you an, “ismart”? : pics
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As investors scramble to make sense of the wild market swings in recent days, a number of financial experts argue that, for more than a year now, signs pointing to an equity crisis were there for all to see.
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Sun sets on era of the Humvee as US military retires its fleet | US news | The Guardian
It became the symbol of half a dozen US military interventions – a vehicle instantly recognisable across the globe, and as popular with the US military (if not with the actual soldiers) as with Islamic State who stole 2,300 of them in Iraq during th…
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Once again, UK lets Netanyahu get away with it – Al Jazeera English
The British government used the “civilising” narrative to deny sovereignty, justify the colonisation process and build an empire.
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‘‘I don’t eat radishes, except when I’m at the Palm. It’s one of my rituals. Rituals are important.’’ We sat at Larry King’s table at the Palm steakhouse in Washington, a city the cable talk impresario has not lived in since 1997.
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Hawking: Black holes store information – BBC News
Black holes preserve information about the stuff that falls into them, according to Prof Stephen Hawking. Physicists have long argued about what happens to information about the physical state of things that are swallowed up by black holes.
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Quantum dots may be key to turning windows into photovoltaics | Ars Technica
While wind may be one of the most economic power sources out there, photovoltaic solar energy has a big advantage: it can go small. While wind gets cheaper as turbines grow larger, the PV hardware scales down to fit wherever we have infrastructure.
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Hawking: Black holes store information – BBC News
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They didn’t think my jokes were very cleaver. – Meme on Imgur
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Salar de Uyuni – Salt Flats, Bolivia : Breathless
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On Tuesday morning, over 100 protesters gathered front of Secretary of State John Kerry’s Georgetown home, urging him to stop a pipeline that would carry thousands of barrels of tar sands from Canada into the United States.
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‘Tremé Was Empty’: How Musicians Are Helping New Orleans Heal From Katrina | ThinkProgress
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA — You may know about Tremé from David Simon’s HBO series about jazz musicians in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. You may know it as the first neighborhood of free African Americans in the U.S.
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Emmett Till’s Cousin, 60 Years Later | Al Jazeera America
GREENWOOD, Miss. – On Aug. 28, 1955, a 14-year-old named Emmett Till was kidnapped, tortured and murdered for whistling at a white woman in the heart of the Mississippi Delta. But for Till’s cousin Simeon Wright, his story is more than a chapter in …
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County Admits It Disenfranchised Voters In African American-Dominated County | ThinkProgress
Fulton County, Georgia admitted to illegally disenfranchising and misleading voters in the 2008 and 2012 elections in a settlement this month.
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Aphantasia: A life without mental images – BBC News
Close your eyes and imagine walking along a sandy beach and then gazing over the horizon as the Sun rises. How clear is the image that springs to mind? Most people can readily conjure images inside their head – known as their mind’s eye.
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US Backs Sri Lanka War Crimes Investigation | Al Jazeera America
The United States said Wednesday that it wants to sponsor a resolution at next month’s U.N. human rights session that is supportive of Sri Lanka’s government, which wants to conduct its own investigation into alleged war crimes.
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Walk on the Wild Side! : firstworldanarchists
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Can Geoengineering Save the World’s Ice? – Scientific American
A chunk of ice the size of downtown Manhattan fell off the Jakobshavn Glacier in Greenland on August 16, the fastest moving ice sheet in the world at present.
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The Dark Web’s Biggest Marketplace Is Going on Hiatus | Motherboard
Administrators of the biggest current dark web market have announced the site will be temporarily closed, claiming that recent research suggests the server locations of Tor hidden services could be discovered. If true, this could risk revealing sens…
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Wuzzuf Secures Egypt’s Largest Funding Round, Led By European VCs | TechCrunch
BasharSoft, the startup behind leading Egyptian recruiting Wuzzuf, has spent the last 5 years surviving the turmoil of Egypt’s recent history. But it’s come through that to become a rare-commodity: An Egyptian company that has raised significant Eur…
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Quick Hit: Thousands Join “You Stink” Rally in Beirut | VICE News
Hundreds of protesters and security personnel were injured over the weekend as demonstrations over Beirut’s garbage crisis turned violent.
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Some of Ukraine’s frontline soldiers toasted Monday’s Independence Day with a bowl of yoghurt. “We’ll make do with that instead of alcohol,” Che, the commander of a 20-strong unit of grenadiers, told VICE News. “We are at the front. We won’t be cele…
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MOCACARE Gets $2M Series A To Create Consumer Health Trackers | TechCrunch
MOCACARE, the maker of heart tracker MOCAheart, plans to develop new products and find distribution channels in China after raising a $2 million Series A.
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Obama calls Japanese leader to express regret for WikiLeaks spying scandal | US news | The Guardian
Barack Obama has called Japan’s leader to express regret over recent WikiLeaks allegations that the US had spied on senior Japanese officials.
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Ulster Unionist Party intends to leave NI Executive – BBC News
The Ulster Unionist Party is leaving the Northern Ireland Executive, the party’s leader has said. Mike Nesbitt’s announcement is part of the continuing political row that followed the murder of Kevin McGuigan earlier this month.
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Marilyn Monroe Recounts Her Harrowing Experience in a Psychiatric Ward in a 1961 Letter http://t.co/0sfeDey61G
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Kenyan runners banned for doping at World Championships – Al Jazeera English
Kenyan athletes Koki Manunga and Joyce Zakary have been handed provisional bans after failing doping tests at the world championships, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) said.
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Significant Digits For Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. Big Ben was running six seconds behind for the past two weeks, shaming the entire United Kingdom. [BBC]
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Hybrid Cloud Vendor Velostrata Comes Out Of Stealth With $14M Investment | TechCrunch
Velostrata, an early stage hybrid cloud startup, emerged from stealth today announcing a $14 million Series A investment. The round was led by Norwest Venture Partners and Greylock IL Partners.
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It’s Time to Tell the Stories of Women in Hip-Hop | The New Republic
“There have been other girls (in rap), Sandy “Pepa” Denton told the Los Angeles Daily News in 1987. “But we are the ones who will be remembered. There are a lot of new groups coming up, and we have paved the way.
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How Lebanon’s rubbish spurred a budding revolution – Al Jazeera English
What ostensibly began as public frustration over the Lebanese government’s failure to tackle the country’s rubbish crisis has since swelled into massive street protests, with residents from across the political spectrum calling for a change in gover…
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BBC chief Danny Cohen defends entertainment shows on the BBC – BBC News
BBC TV boss Danny Cohen has defended the corporation’s right to make entertainment shows like The Voice and Strictly Come Dancing.
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Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe [1500×1000] (OC from /u/AccountForPhotoStuff) : EarthPorn
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foggy sunrise In Dubai [960×540](xpost /r/foggypics) by Catalin Marin : CityPorn
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US must improve TV diversity says Directors Guild of America – BBC News
US TV series Boardwalk Empire, The Exes and Workaholics are among the worst when it comes to employing female or minority ethnic directors, according to the Directors Guild of America (DGA). The shows were among the series to be criticised for a lac…
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South Sudan expected to sign peace deal with rebels – Al Jazeera English
South Sudan President Salva Kiir is expected to sign a peace deal with rebels more than a week after refusing to do so, a presidential spokesman has said.
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A Chemist on Reddit Just Explained What May Have Caused China’s Deadly Explosion | Motherboard
Earlier this month, two explosions engulfed the warehouse district of the Chinese port city of Tianjin, killing at least 129 people.
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BBC Sport – Belgian Grand Prix: Drivers demand end of blow-outs
Formula 1 drivers have demanded the end of tyre blow-outs after two dramatic failures at the Belgian Grand Prix. Pirelli says it is conducting a forensic investigation to understand the failures.
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Intercom Raises $35M To Make Businesses Smarter About Their Customer Communication | TechCrunch
Intercom, a startup that says it offers businesses a “fundamentally new” approach to communicating with their customers, has raised $35 million in Series C funding.
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Humans Are So Efficient at Killing That Scientists are Calling Us ‘Super Predators’ | VICE News
VICE News is closely tracking global environmental change. Check out the Tipping Point blog here. Humans have achieved another great milestone, but it’s no cause for celebration.
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This Chart Can Help Diagnose and Prevent Snoring
Snoring is a hard annoyance to prevent. The only time you do it is when you’re too unconscious to realize it. This chart can help diagnose snoring problems, as well as offer a few creative solutions (without a doctor visit).
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Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Trump tries to deport Univision’s Jorge Ramos
And Time magazine reports that GOP pollster Frank Luntz held a focus group designed to plumb the sources of Trump’s appeal, and left stunned. “You guys understand how significant this is?” Luntz said afterwards. “This is real. I’m having trouble pro…
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Sunrise in Tuscany by Tiziano Pieroni / 500px
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Hyper Brings You The Best Of Internet Video, Every Day | TechCrunch
Hyper, a curated video discovery platform, is launching today to provide you with a daily dose of the best short-form video content that the Internet has to offer. Powered by $1.
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Chinese work safety regulator Yang Dongliang is sacked – BBC News
China’s work safety regulator Yang Dongliang has been sacked by the Communist Party for suspected “serious breaches of discipline and the law”, state news agency Xinhua has reported.
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All nine hours of The Hobbit’s extended trilogy will hit theaters in October | The Verge
The Hobbit trilogy is returning to select theaters in the US, with screenings of the films’ extended editions showing this October.
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Docady, The Smart Document Storage And Management App, Raises $1.5M | TechCrunch
Docady, an iOS app that lets you store and manage all your important documents, has been doing well in the App Store since its official launch in mid-July, including being featured by Apple as a ‘best new app’ for the last few weeks.
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5 Therapy Myths and Fears Busted – Scientific American
Scientific American presents Savvy Psychologist by Quick & Dirty Tips. Scientific American and Quick & Dirty Tips are both Macmillan companies.
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Why a Left-Wing Socialist Is Poised to Become the Leader of Britain’s Labour Party | The Nation
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: A grizzled left-winger with a bold anti-austerity message begins what everyone assumes is a quixotic quest for elected office.
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Frank Bruni marvels at polls indicating that Donald Trump, with his multiple marriages and casinos, is the preferred candidate among Republican evangelicals. Others are shocked to see a crude mercantilist make so much headway in the alleged party of…
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European Goldfinch by Ali Javed / 500px
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Jon Stewart spent 16 years sitting behind a desk and influencing national politics. Is his retirement dream to become a professional wrestling star?
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Rovio To Cut 260 Jobs As The Angry Birds Franchise Becomes Irrelevant | TechCrunch
It looks like Angry Birds maker Rovio is having some troubles to pay the bills. The Finnish company is about to cut 260 jobs after reducing its workforce by 110 employees in October 2014. At the end of 2013, the company had 800 employees in total.
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@GSELevator and the Decline of the Trading-Desk Memoir – The New Yorker
Each year, a business book arrives, blurbed and buzzed as the new “Liar’s Poker”—another memoir of a young man from the provinces who comes to Wall Street and leaves disillusioned but wised-up. The original, which has sold one and a half million cop…
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US Christian charities bankroll Israeli settlements – Al Jazeera English
Ramallah, occupied West Bank – In a meeting this week with settlement leaders, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin declared that Israeli settlers had the “right” to build illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.
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India halts Italy marines trial after UN tribunal order – BBC News
India’s Supreme Court has halted all legal proceedings in the case of two Italian marines accused of killing two Indian fishermen in 2012. The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea also rejected Italy’s request for the marines to be freed wh…
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Angela Merkel statement on asylum protests – BBC News
German Chancellor Angela Merkel makes a statement after visiting the town of Heidenau, near Dresden, scene of violent protests at an asylum shelter last weekend. Mrs Merkel has said the behaviour of right-wing activists were “abhorrent” and “shamefu…
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Thundercat Is Modern Music’s Secret Weapon | WIRED
Saying Thundercat is a bassist is like saying Pharrell plays keyboards. Born Stephen Bruner, the LA native found his groove linking up with producers like Flying Lotus and helping pioneer a sound that meshes hip hop’s energy with free-jazz experimen…
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Self-Publishing Is Good for You … and Authors and the Book Industry | WIRED
Shannon Mayer writes great urban fantasy—she hovers just behind George R. R. Martin on Amazon’s Kindle Fantasy charts. She’s another triumph for self-publishing, but the real beneficiary of the DIY book boom is the publishing industry itself. We tal…
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Internet Radio Is Fixing to Make a Comeback | WIRED
Apple Music versus Spotify. Spotify versus Pandora. Rdio versus its own buggy app. Based purely on the headlines and the hype, the music world would seemingly belong to on-demand streamers. That’s news to TuneIn, longtime bundler of over 100,000 fre…
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Webmonkey Podcast: Who Exactly ‘Looks Like an Engineer’? | WIRED
When OneLogin put four employees up on billboards in the Bay Area as recruiting tools, nothing could have prepared them for the type of attention that came their way.
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These Kids Aren’t Zombies. They’re Just Watching Some TV | WIRED
There are many names for the television set. Telly. The tube. The boob tube. And, of course, idiot box, the title of Donna Steven‘s series of chilling portraits of children engrossed by cartoons flickering on the screen.
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6 Rules for Making Movies in the VR Age | WIRED
Making movies for virtual reality is unlike any previous kind of filmmaking. You can’t “frame” a 360-degree shot. There are no cuts. And, weirdly enough, the characters can know you’re there.
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A Peek Inside Mr. Robot’s Toolbox | WIRED
The bar wasn’t exactly high for dystopian hacker suspense thrillers when USA Network’s Mr. Robot launched, but the show has gone on to surprise everyone. WIRED Security writer Kim Zetter called it “the best hacking show yet.
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Get the Most for Your Money From New Streaming TV Services | WIRED
In a recent survey by Digitalsmiths, 82 percent of people said they want à la carte television. True bespoke TV isn’t here yet, but three new services offer a slimmed-down selection of live channels. How much of our ideal lineup do they deliver—and …
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Italy’s Summer Beaches Look Even More Beautiful From Above | WIRED
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. Related Galleries Photographers don’t ever really take vacations. They’re always shooting. Or thinking about shooting. Take Bernhard Lange, for example.
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BBC Sport – World Championships: Justin Gatlin’s agent defends sprinter
American sprinter Justin Gatlin is unfairly carrying the burden of all drugs cheats, according to his agent. The 33-year-old, who has twice been banned for doping offences, finished behind Usain Bolt in the 100m at the World Championships in Beijing…
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20 Must-Follow Feeds in the World of Entertainment | WIRED
Take a spin inside the headspace of the reclusive R&B artist on his Tumblr, which features everything from early samples off his album Boys Don’t Cry to video of a NASA rocket launch.
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Cops decide to collect less license plate data after 80GB drive got full | Ars Technica
OAKLAND, Calif.—Weeks after Ars published a feature on the scope of license plate reader use, the Oakland Police Department unilaterally and quietly decided to impose a data retention limit of six months.
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In Defense of the Clean Install
These days a new operating system can be downloaded from the web and installed in a couple of reboots, or “purchased” for free from an App Store. It might seem like a clean install isn’t worth the time and effort. Nothing could be further from the t…
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What should a skater do when there’s no place to skate !? A film by Vitùc Starring my son Ivan. Shot with Canon 5d3 Lens canon 35mm 1.4 & 50mm 1.2 Friuli / Italy august 2015 Music license – Premiumbeat.com
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BBC Sport – World Championships 2015: Kenyans fail Beijing drugs tests
Two Kenyan runners have tested positive for doping at the World Athletics Championships in Beijing, the International Association of Athletics Federations has announced. More to follow.
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Irene by Konstantin Kryukovskiy / 500px
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ZeroStack Hopes To Put Private Clouds Within Reach of Mid-Market | TechCrunch
ZeroStack, a company that hopes to help mid-market companies set up a private cloud more easily, exited stealth today and announced $5.6 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Foundation Capital.
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Self-driving ‘crash’ trucks to hit Florida highways this year | Technology | The Guardian
The first autonomous vehicles to hit US highways will not be Google or Apple cars, but self-driving trucks – and they will be riding roads in Florida by the end of the year.
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Indian 1st Mars Probe Captures Stunning 3D View of Huge Chasm
India’s first mission to Mars has captured a stunning new 3D view of a vast chasm, revealing gullies shaped by erosive forces on the Red Planet.
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What would a joint Arab force look like? – BBC News
On Thursday a meeting of the Arab League is expected to include discussions about the creation of a joint Arab military force. The force’s role would most likely be to respond to crises around the region, possibly including action against the so-cal…
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Justin Wilson | Sport | The Guardian
Most racing drivers are built like jockeys and the cars are shaped around them. At 6ft 4in, Justin Wilson presented designers with a problem most of them would rather avoid in the task of creating an aerodynamically effective shape while paring weig…
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You must hear this rapturous, pastoral and unique game score – Offworld
Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is a mysterious, beautiful game about a post-apocalyptic English countryside.
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BBC Sport – Euro 2016: Joe Allen ruled out of Wales qualifiers
Joe Allen has been ruled out of Wales’ Euro 2016 qualifiers with Cyprus and Israel with a hamstring injury. The Liverpool midfielder was suspended for the 3 September trip to Cyprus but will also miss the game with Israel three days later in Cardiff.
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Splitting a wheel of parmesan. : woahdude
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Confiscated ivory crushed at Thai ceremony – BBC News
Thailand has destroyed more than two tonnes of illegal ivory in a public ceremony. Tom Milliken, from the international wildlife trade monitoring network, Traffic, said the Thai government wanted to show its commitment to ending the illegal trade in…
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New Orleans, once seen as a museum-piece for tourists, is now widely celebrated as an “economic miracle” that for the first time in decades is attracting new, entrepreneurial blood.
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Earth Germs on Spacecraft: A Push for New Protections
New strategies are required to make sure hitchhiking Earth microbes don’t contanimate Mars and other alien worlds, researchers say.
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Emstrur, Iceland by Sven Broeckx / 500px
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Philadelphia City Hall by Rich Devant Moore / 500px
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flower bath by Simone Cmoon / 500px
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Hungary sends 2,100 police officers to control border – Al Jazeera English
Hungary has announced it will deploy 2,100 police officers to help control its border with Serbia as record numbers of refugees try to enter the state trying to claim asylum.
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‘Star Trek: Renegades’ Fan Film Warps Online on YouTube
Scene from the fan-funded independent film “Star Trek: Renegades,” which was released on YouTube on Aug. 24, 2015.Credit: “Star Trek: Renegades” Facebook page View full size image A new (but unofficial) “Star Trek” film is out there now for the worl…
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Fats Domino’s White Piano and the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina – The Atlantic
If you could see Fats Domino’s piano today—white and gleaming on a pedestal at the Louisiana State Museum in the Old U.S. Mint in New Orleans’ French Quarter—you might think he had been kind enough to donate one of his signature grands to the museum…
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This Stunning Adventure Game Plays Like Art in Motion | WIRED
What do you get when you combine a 240-year-old sketch, an affinity for architecture and film noir, and the odd Third Man reference? A new game called Calvino Noir. Available August 27th on iOS, Steam, and PlayStation 4, is a point-and-click side-sc…
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About Those Stupid Sigma Nu Banners at Old Dominion – The Atlantic
The signs provoked an instant backlash. They drew condemnation from Old Dominion’s president, and caused the national fraternity to suspend its local chapter. And the furor also led some commentators to conclude that the outrage was largely misplace…
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Untitled by Niki Wayland / 500px
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Nicaraguan on death row gets reprieve from Texas court – BBC News
Bernardo Tercero was sentenced to death in 2000 for the 1997 murder of a school teacher in Texas. Lawyers for Tercero said that a witness for the prosecution had come forward to say she gave false testimony. A court will now review the claim.
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Inside NASA’s Giant Flying Laboratory | Motherboard
I’m flying in the cockpit of one of the world’s largest flying laboratories, looking out at some storm clouds illuminated by the lights of Lincoln, Nebraska, or maybe Abilene, Kansas.
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We Still Don’t Know How Many People Died Because Of Katrina | FiveThirtyEight
Ten years after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast and the New Orleans levees failed, we still don’t know how many people died in the storm and its aftermath. The uncertainty about the death toll is evident in the variety of numbers being repor…
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This helped me in my writing. Maybe it could help some of you aspiring writers. – Imgur
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YouTube Gaming site ready for launch – BBC News
YouTube is to launch its spin-off platform for video gamers at 18:00 GMT on Wednesday evening. YouTube Gaming is a dedicated app and website focusing exclusively on gaming content, with a greater emphasis on live steams.
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A Way to Make Depth-Sensing Cameras Better http://t.co/YdtfmPZy4E
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Everyday Misanthrope, the game about making others as miserable as you are – Offworld
“There is no joy in your life, only pain,” reads your player status on the opening screen of Everyday Misanthrope.
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Battle your friends in a game inspired by 1980s space anime – Offworld
The opening screen of Capsule Force feels ripped from the intro to an anime series: a series of stars pinging out a catchy melody in the sky like a series of shining bells.
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Migrants crisis: Hungary police use tear gas at protest – BBC News
Police in Hungary have used tear gas to disperse migrants protesting at a reception camp on the Serbian border. Unrest flared at a crowded reception centre at Roszke. Earlier, Hungary said it was considering using troops to secure the border.
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Warriors from the North – Al Jazeera English
The comedian gives an insight into his street-smart Nigerian life as he gets his act together and grows his brand. The world’s most expensive living artist discusses his work and the controversies surrounding his creations and career.
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Movie based on the real Up house floating to the big screen | Film | The Guardian
The true story behind the Seattle house that has been linked to the Pixar adventure Up is heading to the big screen, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
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The Promise, and Peril, of Europe’s New Left Solidarity | The Nation
They emerge one after the other—the anti-austerity parties, the purveyors of hope, the new or newly popular leaders and formations—from Greece to Spain to Ireland, from Turkey to Israel, from Burlington to Britain.
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Republicans Aren’t Fooled by Scientists | The Nation
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August 26, 1920: The 19th Amendment Is Ratified, Granting Women the Vote | The Nation
When the 19th Amendment was ratified 95 years ago today, The Nation was already looking ahead to the deeper implications of women’s suffrage. “What Will They Do With The Vote?” asked a piece by Stella Crossley Daljord.
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In a lengthy and emotional public statement, former British Conservative MP Harvey Proctor has denied his alleged involvement in a VIP pedophile ring that alleged abuse survivors claim was operative during the 1970s and 80s, and responsible for murd…
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Florida Republicans Whiff in Bid to Draw New Congressional Map – The Atlantic
When the Florida legislature convened for a special summer session earlier this month, lawmakers had, literally, one job: to redraw the state’s congressional districts after a court had thrown out the last map they came up with. They failed.
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Mutant Super Lice May Be Coming to a School Near You | Mother Jones
With the summer closing out its final weeks, kids around the US are packing up their book-bags, collecting their colored pencils and heading back to school. But, amidst the excitement, parents have a new worry: super lice.
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GOP Uses New Loophole to Crush Democratic Party in Fundraising | Mother Jones
Last December, the outgoing Congress slipped language into a spending bill that created a loophole allowing donors to make much larger contributions to political parties. Both parties supported the rule change at the time. But only one has been able…
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This Is What Would Happen if We Repealed Birthright Citizenship | Mother Jones
After launching his presidential bid by calling Mexican immigrants “rapists,” Donald Trump last week unveiled his plan for immigration reform: He’d “take back our country,” as he put it on Fox News, by building a 2,000-mile wall at the southern bord…
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The Suburban surged and swerved, rattling across potholes and rocketing over heaves in the sun-scorched asphalt. At the wheel, Adolfo Murillo smiled with pride. “This road we’re on here,” he said, “for years and years and years was never paved.
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Baby Sea Lions Are Dying | Mother Jones
Sea lions have been having a rough couple of years. In 2013, starving pups began washing up on California beaches by the hundreds. This year, the number of stranded sea lions has increased dramatically.
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Flourishing marijuana trade is leaving Denver short on warehouse space | The Verge
Here’s an amusing byproduct of the legalization of marijuana use in some American states: it’s putting a strain on the nation’s freight network.
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fog coating wetlands in Louisiana : FoggyPics
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From Selma to Washington, NAACP’s New Journey for Justice
The NAACP’s “Journey for Justice” began in Selma, Ala., on August 1. The march is scheduled to arrive in Washington, D.C. on September 15, followed by an “advocacy day” at the Capitol on September 16.
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‘Dust lady’ from iconic 9/11 image dies of cancer at 42 – BBC News
A 9/11 survivor whose photograph became one of the enduring images of the terrorist attacks has died aged 42 after suffering from stomach cancer.
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Seven arrested over multimillion-dollar ‘internet brothel’ Rentboy.com | The Verge
The owners of Rentboy.com describe their business as “the world’s largest male escort site,” but federal authorities claim that it is, in fact, an “internet brothel.
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In the week that marks the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans officials have launched a comprehensive “resilience strategy” aiming to secure the city’s future.
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‘Spam King’ pleads guilty for 27m Facebook messages – BBC News
A Las Vegas man has pleaded guilty to fraud and criminal contempt after he sent more than 27 million spam messages through Facebook.Sanford Wallace, who is known as the “Spam King”, faces a maximum prison sentence of three years and a fine of $250,0…
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European stocks dip in volatile trade – BBC News
European stock markets have followed Asian shares lower as fears persist of a Chinese-led economic slowdown. In London, the FTSE 100 was more than 1% lower in morning trade, with mining stocks among the biggest losers.
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Why the US Shouldn’t Panic about China’s Stock Market Collapse | VICE News
Uncertainty continued to reign across the global stock market Wednesday as investors waited to see whether China could manage to stabilize its economy following its massive plunge on Monday.
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I thought I recognized the scent – Meme on Imgur
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Donald Trump has journalist removed from press conference – video | US news | The Guardian
Security escorts Univision news anchor Jorge Ramos out of a Donald Trump event in Iowa on Tuesday, after the journalist repeatedly tries to ask the Republican presidential candidate about his immigration policy.
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Australia: NSW floods force people and animals to flee – BBC News
Hundreds of residents south of Sydney have been forced to flee their homes because of rising floodwaters. Around 70 people have been rescued from flooding since the severe weather first lashed Sydney’s southern suburbs on Monday.
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Above the Morning Fog : FoggyPics
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World markets sag despite Chinese rate cut – Al Jazeera English
World shares have sagged as investors feared fresh rate cuts in China may not be enough to stabilise its slowing economy or halt a stocks collapse that is wreaking havoc in global markets.
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Young Bear in Yellowstone [OC] (6000×4000) : AnimalPorn
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Foggy Road via /r/FoggyPics http://t.co/WFK3Zdccgv http://t.co/mZYMjdv5qg
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China’s key indexes close down for fifth session | Al Jazeera America
China’s market gyrated throughout Wednesday with key indexes ending down for a fifth straight session after swinging more than 3 percent in both directions in extreme volatility that sent European shares down as concerns about China’s economy persis…
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From a hill in Albania, Corfu to left of picture [OC] [2904X1944] : EarthPorn
From a hill in Albania, Corfu to left of picture [OC] [2904X1944] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/qQm4MfkC3I http://t.co/bEy86rApzL
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Seen in Brussels : firstworldanarchists
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sundays in the park by Chris Ruhrmann / 500px
sundays in the park by Chris_Ruhrmann http://t.co/KuRsRgMBlZ http://t.co/xdUp3fnALw
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Cripta by Giuseppe Peppoloni / 500px
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Manchester girl, 16, pleads guilty to terror charges – BBC News
Chinese shares fall another 1.27% on Wednesday, exacerbating fears about the global economy, after the central bank’s fresh rate cut fails to stem the losses.
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Sweden’s oceans ambassador fights for a sustainable blue economy | Grist
To risk a truism: The oceans do a lot for us. The currents drive the climate and the monsoons, ocean water absorbs carbon and heat from that pesky atmosphere, aquatic vistas are gorgeous when they’re not filled with trash, and healthy marine ecosyst…
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Cat. via /r/CatsStandingUp http://t.co/vStaGsGIRq http://t.co/fHiNK2Es07
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Viaduc de Millau, France : FoggyPics
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Academics Developed a Formula to Solve Agatha Christie’s Mysteries | Motherboard
If you’re an avid mystery fan who’s good at math, this may count as a spoiler alert.
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Airbnb Removes Top Host In Asia From Its Service With No Explanation | TechCrunch
‘Sharing economy’ companies like Airbnb, Uber, TaskRabbit and others have grown popular for offering new types of work, and by association, additional incomes to people worldwide.
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Sony’s new speaker is a TV remote | The Verge
After light bulbs, Sony is continuing its quest to stick speakers in unexciting household objects today with the SRS-LSR100.
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Lord Stern hits out at claims about cost of climate cuts | Environment | The Guardian
The eminent climate economist Nicholas Stern has condemned the counterposing of economic growth with climate action as a false and diversionary tactic that could damage prospects for agreement at the Paris climate talks in December.
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Clippers fined $250,000 for violating NBA rules – Al Jazeera English
The Los Angeles Clippers have been fined $250,000 by the National Basketball Association for violating its rules prohibiting teams from offering players unauthorised business or investment opportunities.
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India urged to use close Israeli ties for Palestine – Al Jazeera English
New Delhi, India – Once a champion of the Palestinian cause, India should now use its deepening diplomatic relations with Israel to press for an independent Palestinian state, critics say. “All Palestine demands is 22 percent of historic Palestine.
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Gunmen wearing Afghan army uniforms kill NATO troops – Al Jazeera English
Gunmen wearing Afghan military uniforms have killed two NATO soldiers at a base in the country’s south, the coalition said, in the latest “insider attack” on foreign troops.
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Qalehcheh, East Azerbaijan – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Qalehcheh (Persian: قلعه چه, also Romanized as Qal‘ehcheh and Qal‘eh Cheh; also known as Ghal’eh Cheh and Kalacha)[1] is a village in Lahijan Rural District, Khosrowshahr District, Tabriz County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran.
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The United States Of Chinese Food – Digg
Wander into any town in the US, no matter how small and remote, and you’re likely to find at least one Chinese restaurant. In fact, there are more Chinese restaurants in America than McDonalds, KFC and Burger King combined.
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Household dust ‘contains 9,000 organisms’ – BBC News
The dust in our homes contains 9,000 different kinds of tiny organisms, most of which are harmless, scientists have discovered. Researchers from the University of Colorado found that the types of bacteria and fungi varied depending on where the home…
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Digging for Dinner by Phil / 500px
Digging for Dinner by Phils1stPix http://t.co/k1gNBIlgyu http://t.co/UyoXfa3cEa
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Game of War executive arrested for allegedly stealing trade secrets | The Verge
An employee of Machine Zone, the developer of hugely popular mobile app Game of War: Fire Age, has been arrested after allegedly stealing trade secrets from the company.
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VICE News Capsule – Wednesday, August 26 | VICE News
The VICE News Capsule is a news roundup that looks beyond the headlines. Today: Venezuela cracks down in border dispute, Ethiopians face a food shortage, Egypt restores artifacts for its newest museum, and Poland makes a World War II-era discovery.
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Sausalito in a blanket of fog [2048×1340] : CityPorn
Sausalito in a blanket of fog [2048×1340] via /r/CityPorn http://t.co/kUUkkKHhrr http://t.co/v8WMfRFqnm
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The Fog Hills of Sausalito : FoggyPics
The Fog Hills of Sausalito via /r/FoggyPics http://t.co/LlZwgQcai8 http://t.co/9wHwxQreWR
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Mean Science via /r/funny http://t.co/NcWyLiidlR http://t.co/Yq9xRIj7ho
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sensual by zieniu by Tomasz Zienkiewicz / 500px
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Foggy Icelandic shore [1024×576] (XPost /r/FoggyPics) By Catalin Marin : EarthPorn
Foggy Icelandic shore [1024×576] (XPost /r/FoggyPics) By Catalin Marin via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/gqtand1EaG http://t.co/q4wRPHkC5F
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me irl via /r/me_irl http://t.co/V2BkzwYOGR http://t.co/gQGqQ304fT
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Weighing the Odds in Fight Over Iran Nuclear Deal http://t.co/aFxe5tUsYT
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Curfew in Ahmedabad as caste protests turn violent – Al Jazeera English
India has deployed paramilitary forces and imposed a curfew in Ahmedabad, the capital of the Gujarat state, after violence broke out at a protest led by a powerful caste to demand more government jobs and college places.
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9/11’s ‘dust lady’ Marcy Borders dies of stomach cancer | US news | The Guardian
It was one of the most haunting and iconic images to come out of 9/11: a woman covered in ash and powdered concrete fleeing the World Trade Center after the first plane struck the tower and brought horror into the heart of New York.
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canyon creek fire on the backside by Cindy Luelling / 500px
canyon creek fire on the backside by CindyLuelling http://t.co/uPDJ42qiFr http://t.co/6ErZUKarSb
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Morgane by Joan Le Jan / 500px
Morgane by Joan_Le_Jan http://t.co/miRNAMhTGm http://t.co/4TSJspYKHb
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The Lesbos migrants living in a ‘wasteland’ – BBC News
More than 30,000 migrants, mainly from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq, have arrived on the Greek island of Lesbos since the start of August, according to Amnesty International.
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Icelandic lake via /r/FoggyPics http://t.co/ZdRI8NSUA0 http://t.co/4R0PIgPeSw
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Jellyfish lake by Oleg Bazhenov / 500px
Jellyfish lake by OlegBazhenov1 http://t.co/v8E7YfggRj http://t.co/ht673rQVXi
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High Intensity Aurora Borealis over Norway js – Just Space
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China’s woes and a still flawed global economy – BBC News
With share prices in Shanghai and Hong Kong up and down all day, it would be premature to say that yesterday’s decision by the People’s Bank of China to cut interest rates and make it easier for banks to lend has brought calm to stock markets.
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Justin Wilson’s brother says IndyCar driver’s donated organs saved six lives | Sport | The Guardian
Justin Wilson helped save six lives after he donated his organs following his death, his brother said on Tuesday night. The 37-year old former Formula One driver died after he was struck on the crash helmet by debris at an IndyCar race in Pennsylvan…
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‘Rapacious’ Arianna Huffington accused of devaluing journalists | Media | The Guardian
This exchange of letters requires no comment from me, except to say – unsurprisingly – how much I agree with Lauren Lipton. I’m David, a Research Editor from Arianna Huffington’s office. Arianna is currently working on a book about the importance of…
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Fukushima bridge in the fog : FoggyPics
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CP roaring through the fog : FoggyPics
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My grandfather (an avid boxer) circa 1955 : OldSchoolCool
My grandfather (an avid boxer) circa 1955 via /r/OldSchoolCool http://t.co/zPqlGleT8m http://t.co/876S9dOwSh
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Nato: Men in Afghan Uniforms Kill 2 Foreign Troops | Al Jazeera America
Two men wearing Afghan security force uniforms opened fire Wednesday inside a military base in southern Afghanistan, killing two NATO service members before being shot dead themselves, the international force said.
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Top campaigners call for mass climate action ahead of Paris conference | Environment | The Guardian
Desmond Tutu, Vivienne Westwood, Naomi Klein and Noam Chomsky are among a group of prolific figures who will issue a mass call to action on Thursday ahead of the UN’s crunch climate change conference in Paris in December.
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Airbnb starts collecting tourist tax in Paris, its most popular destination | The Verge
Airbnb has announced that it will begin collecting tourist tax in Paris on behalf of its hosts. The tax will appear on customers’ bills as a €0.83 ($0.96) charge per person per night under the category “meublés touristiques non classés.
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Girl at the Teej Festival in India [1200 x 842] : HumanPorn
Girl at the Teej Festival in India [1200 x 842] via /r/HumanPorn http://t.co/imWueueHK2 http://t.co/qWmVdVnOQ9
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PLO must be resuscitated one way or another – Al Jazeera English
Palestinian cartoonist Khalil Abu Arafeh’s comic summarised the feelings of many. He drew an old man in a hospital bed in need of new blood and called the patient the Palestine National Council (PNC).
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This ice cream being made in Thailand. : oddlysatisfying
This ice cream being made in Thailand. via /r/oddlysatisfying http://t.co/MMV6sdBdef http://t.co/qqulTiI91t
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Hindus drop below 80 percent of India’s population – Al Jazeera English
India’s Hindus have dropped below 80 percent of the population for the first time since independence. Census data, released on Wednesday by the ministry of home affairs, showed that Hindus declined to 79.8 percent of the country’s 1.2 billion people…
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Fire disrupts Dublin Airport flights – BBC News
Dublin Airport has temporarily suspended flights because of a fire on the roof of a hangar. It has advised passengers to check with their airline for flight information.
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HMB while I salt your popcorn : holdmybeer
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Willa Cather on Happiness: A Soulful and Deeply Alive Account of True Bliss | Brain Pickings
“That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.” The history of recorded thought it strewn with evidence that happiness lives in the most ordinary of moments.
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Englishman River Falls – Vancouver Island, BC [3264×2448] [OC] : EarthPorn
Englishman River Falls – Vancouver Island, BC [3264×2448] [OC] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/V82NVGnpFq http://t.co/rlLOQOm2R7
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The emergency plan by John Wilhelm is a photoholic / 500px
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FTSE drops as Chinese fears resurge – BBC News
(Open): London’s leading shares fell sharply in early Wednesday trading, undermining Tuesday’s recovery from a 10-day losing streak.At the open, the FTSE 100 dropped 86.08 points or 1.42% to 5,995.26.
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BBC boss ‘sorry’ Tom Jones upset after axed from The Voice – BBC News
The BBC’s director of television Danny Cohen has said he is “truly sorry” Tom Jones was upset by the way he was axed from talent show The Voice. Sir Tom said he was given “no idea” and “no warning” he would not be returning to the BBC One talent sho…
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Betfair and Paddy Power take a merger punt – BBC News
Betfair and Paddy Power are set to merge in a deal that would create one of the world’s biggest online betting and gaming companies. Final details are still being worked out but the companies said the deal had “compelling strategic logic” and booste…
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Afghans clinging to a ‘normal life’ despite bloodshed – BBC News
The Afghan capital Kabul has suffered a series of attacks this month that have left dozens of people dead. The Taliban says it is behind most of the violence, and it is believed to be linked to the current splits within the group after the death of …
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“Modern Pigs” · Another Period · TV Review · The A.V. Club
Another Period’s first season is over, and thankfully, it has already been renewed for a second season.
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Space in Images – 2015 – 08 – Andreas ready for launch
ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen will spend ten days in space as part of his ‘iriss’ mission to the International Space Station. He leaves Earth in the Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft with commander Sergei Volkov and Kazakh cosmonaut Aidyn Aimbetov.
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BBC Sport – Gossip column: Neymar, Stones, Illarramendi, Berahino
Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu has dismissed Manchester United’s £240m move for 23-year-old Brazil forward Neymar. (Talksport)
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Took a poll on Imgur, and the verdict is in… – Imgur
Took a poll on Imgur, and the verdict is in… http://t.co/btpGtF2eme http://t.co/jf0Ua7pZaH
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How Nairobi Got Its Ad-Hoc Bus System on Google Maps | WIRED
Painted with the faces of celebrities like Bob Marley and Tupac Shakur, and furnished with disco balls that lurch and twinkle as they weave through traffic, the thousands of matatus on the roads in Nairobi are bright and loud.
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TIL after trying for a decade, Wal-Mart withdrew from Germany in 2006 b/c it couldn’t undercut local discounters, customers were creeped out by the greeters, employees were upset by the morning chant & other management practices, & the public was ou…
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Syria’s Basha al-Assad: ‘We trust the Russians’ – BBC News
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said he is confident that his main allies, Russia and Iran, will stand by him. There has been speculation that they might abandon him to allow a settlement to be reached to end the fighting in Syria.
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Exonerations in Brooklyn Highlight Issue | Al Jazeera America
For the last month, Joel Fowler has been living life as a free man. After spending more than seven years in prison for a crime he did not commit — second degree murder — on Aug.
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Some of the main, cellphone-related evidence in the trial of convicted murderer Adnan Syed was called into question in a new motion filed in court on Monday.
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WPP’s Martin Sorrell is ‘raging bull’ on Chinese growth – BBC News
Martin Sorrell, chief executive of advertising giant WPP, has expressed optimism about China’s growth, despite fears over its economic health. WPP saw a 44.5% rise in preliminary pre-tax profit to £710m for the first half. Revenues rose 6.8% to £5.8…
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Super PACs Emerge as Unregulated Shadow Campaigns | Al Jazeera America
With the presidential election is still more than a year away, it is estimated that arecord $10 billion will be raised and spent by the time the next president is elected. That is more than twice as much as the last three White House races combined.
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Hawking: There may be a way out of black holes – Al Jazeera English
The acclaimed British scientist Stephen Hawking has put forward a theory that could resolve one of the most significant paradoxes facing theoretical physicists – what happens to physical information after it enters a black hole.
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Feminist Karen DeCrow on Male Reproductive Rights – Imgur
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The little visitor by Delphine. D / 500px
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Winners and losers – what the North Korean deal really means | World news | The Guardian
Another whirl in the now familiar dance between the two Koreas has ended with Pyongyang expressing regrets over the wounding of South Korean soldiers, Seoul agreeing to halt anti-North propaganda broadcasts, and heavy sighs of relief around the worl…
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With messaging apps like WhatsApp, Line, and Viber fighting for growth around the world, is there room for smaller, newer players? Charge Messenger thinks so and to prove that point, it just announced $1.
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So my cat loves sleeping in weird ass positions… : cats
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bedtime loaf via /r/Catloaf http://t.co/t7escxkTem http://t.co/XAKACHyIW6
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renegade : firstworldanarchists
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We share this planet we call home with an astonishing array of equally astonishing creatures.
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Trump Has Univision Anchor Removed From Conference | Al Jazeera America
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump engaged in a prolonged confrontation with the anchor of the nation’s leading Spanish-language network during a news conference Tuesday, first having the well-known news personality removed before allowi…
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Gujarat: Curfew imposed after Patel caste protests – BBC News
A curfew has been imposed in India’s western state of Gujarat following violence after a massive rally by the Patel community demanding better access to jobs and education.A day-long strike called by the community is also being observed. The main ci…
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papers with shorter titles get more citations : science
Psychologypapers with shorter titles get more citations (news.sciencemag.org)submitted just now by kemarkhaloading…
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Meteors and Milky Way over Mount Ranier
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Homebuilt Telescope + Cellphone + Moon (taken Aug 21) [1922×1964] http://t.co/UwZeJdNO5F http://t.co/B3t0oMaj6b
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She is very clever via /r/cats http://t.co/6Cz28cvQIs http://t.co/ozHVnTzr4y
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Lady Musgrave Island, Australia [1920×1200] : EarthPorn
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Israel frees hundreds of refugees from desert jail – Al Jazeera English
Israel’s Supreme Court has ordered the release of “illegal migrants” or refugees held for more than a year at a detention centre in the Negev desert. On Tuesday, 750 people were released in small groups with 428 scheduled to be freed on Wednesday, t…
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Back in the ’90s, BoJack Horseman (protagonist of the Netflix original series BoJack Horseman) was the star of a sitcom named Horsin’ Around.
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I Robot, you Robot, we all Robot, for Mr. Robot · What’s On Tonight · The A.V. Club
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Wednesday, August 26. All times are Eastern. Mr. Robot (USA, 10 p.m.): We told you this would be the top pick. Mr. Robot’s season finale is titled “eps1.9_zer0-day.avi,” and just sounds all types of ominous.
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With its elaborate cataloguing of every layer of hell, purgatory, and heaven, Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy remains a popular touchstone 800 years after its writing. The text has inspired artists in many different media.
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Wet Hot composer Craig Wedren on crafting First Day Of Camp’s sonic world · Cue & A · The A.V. Club
The explosion in original television production has created new opportunities and challenges for music supervisors, the professionals responsible for finding and clearing the perfect song for every scene. In Cue & A, we raid the record collections o…
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These are the breaks: 10 of the most sampled drum beats in music history · Inventory · The A.V. Club
Drum breaks: Those small patches of space within a song where the singer shuts up, the guitarist backs off, the bass rumbles down, and the percussionist is given a moment or two to shine.
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The Carmichael Show · Season 1 · TV Review · The A.V. Club
Jerrod Carmichael is not the kind of comedian whose stand-up would transfer into the family-friendly arena without toning it down. He wasn’t even supposed to enter that arena in the first place, as The Carmichael Show is the second go-round for Carm…
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Ashley’s Ashes · Savage Love · The A.V. Club
Please do a public-service announcement about the Ashley Madison hack, and request that NO ONE look up information on ANYONE other than their own spouse. I’m a former AM user. I’ve been married to my wife for 20 years. We met when we were both 20 ye…
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Why some Tanzanian women are marrying women – BBC News
In the Tarime district of the Mara region in northern Tanzania an age-old tradition involves women marrying women. This alternative family structure, known as Nyumba Nthobu, has become a practical alternative for many.
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Morning glow by Ichiro Murata / 500px
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Manhattan Mood by Linda Edgecomb / 500px
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Police brutality in the US should come as no surprise – video | Comment is free | The Guardian
When the then 28-year-old Bryan Stevenson was threatened with a gun by a police officer, he knew better than to run away. But, he argues, young black men are still presumed guilty and dangerous by many Americans.
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Vasco da Gama III by Paulo Costa / 500px
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After reading this I sat back and thought about my childhood thru college. Just realized that I have my own list of very similar experiences. I have two young girls right now…. hate the thought that one day they will probably have their own list. …
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Hi there, my name is Jake, I have just met you and I love you. – Imgur
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Muir Beach just before sunset[5312×2988] : EarthPorn
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Can we bring dating site murderer back? : AdviceAnimals
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BBC Sport – World Championships 2015: Mo Farah through to 5,000m final
Britain’s Mo Farah was almost pushed over on the final bend of his 5,000m heat but qualified for Saturday’s World Championships final in Beijing. The 32-year-old was touched on the back by Canada’s Mohammed Ahmed but just about managed to stay on hi…
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Summer day outside of Dallas City Hall, 1984. [1536×1046] : ArchitecturePorn
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Selfie: The Human and me. From Sammy, the cat. : cats
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Guatemala Ex-vp Ordered to Stand Trial | Al Jazeera America
Guatemala’s former vice president was ordered to stand trial Tuesday, while the Supreme Court took the first step in allowing impeachment proceedings against President Otto Perez Molina in a fraud scandal that is pushing the country into political c…
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The costliest art mishaps – BBC News
A 17th Century painting inspired by Leonardo da Vinci is back on display after a 12-year-old Taiwanese boy accidentally punched a hole in it at an exhibition on Sunday. Closed-circuit television footage showed him tripping and putting his fist throu…
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Australian Treasurer Joe Hockey pushes for a republic – BBC News
Treasurer Joe Hockey is expected to lead a new cross-party push for Australia to become a republic. Mr Hockey will co-convene a parliamentary group lobbying for a plebiscite to be held by 2020 on having an Australian head of state.
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Two Nato soldiers dead in Afghan attack – BBC News
Two people in Afghan military uniforms opened fire on a vehicle killing two Nato soldiers in Afghanistan, the BBC understands. Their nationalities are not known.
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This giant door with a very regular handle. : mildlyinteresting
This giant door with a very regular handle. (imgur.com) Let me see if I can get a handle on this…
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Illegal logging threatens Mexico butterfly haven – BBC News
Experts are warning that illegal logging in central Mexico is putting the wintering grounds of millions of butterflies at risk. Monarch butterflies form huge clumps on trees during their annual migration from Canada and the United States.
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US, Turkey seeking full alignment on Syria | Al Jazeera America
The diplomatic saga to get Turkey on board with the U.S.-led campaign against Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) appears to be inching toward a tacit understanding, with both sides saying they are prepared for joint airstrikes against the g…
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Guantanamo Bay Begins Construction On Senior Care Wing – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
News in Brief: Guantanamo Bay Begins Construction On Senior Care Wing http://t.co/8Xb0liJ1Ak
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I got an unexpected package today : mildlyinteresting
I got an unexpected package today via /r/mildlyinteresting http://t.co/0mI1oozZRk http://t.co/s34KfhmxnE
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70’s feminist graffiti we can all appreciate. : TrollXChromosomes
70’s feminist graffiti we can all appreciate. via /r/TrollXChromosomes http://t.co/GZ13OdNiFF http://t.co/v2A3FnaaSN
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Legality of drinking across Europe [OC] [1200×1000] : MapPorn
Legality of drinking across Europe [OC] [1200×1000] via /r/MapPorn http://t.co/ren9wzIKOS http://t.co/VLaZM8BngN
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Sanctum by Marcel Sander / 500px
Sanctum by La_Calva http://t.co/7W63vhaTlA http://t.co/a0BXpOvMq8
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This (P90x) Amazon review cracks me up everytime : funny
This (P90x) Amazon review cracks me up everytime via /r/funny http://t.co/w5tAxwve1f http://t.co/zzvfx0MQKp
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Guantanamo Bay Begins Construction On Senior Care Wing – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA—Saying the expansion would ensure the facility is adequately prepared for upcoming challenges, officials at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp announced Wednesday that they had broken ground on a new geriatric care wing.
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WASHINGTON—Saying she had a busy afternoon ahead and could use some time to herself, former First Lady Barbara Bush reportedly called the White House Wednesday to see if she could leave her husband there for a few hours.
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MEDFORD, OR—Recoiling at the sight of the two coworkers waiting for them in the lobby, employees from local company Core Analysts stated Monday that their invitation to head out and grab lunch had somehow trickled down to the office weirdos.
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TIL in 1970 you could travel between DC and NYC by train in 2 hours and 30 minutes for $12.75. Today it takes Amtrak’s high-speed Acela 3 hours and it costs $158. (streamlinerschedules.com)
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Cronking ravens and flower oracles – our natural barometers? | Environment | The Guardian
The curious and alluring autumn gentians are flowering.
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APOD: 2015 August 25 – Meteors and Milky Way over Mount Ranier
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Explanation: Despite appearances, the sky is not falling. Two weeks ago, howe…
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Scotty, the baby wallaby, has lunch: 11ml of a specially formulated mix. The tammar wallaby was rescued on Kangaroo Island, South Australia, after his mother was killed on the road.
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Marcellus Shale drillers fined for methane migration. : environment
Marcellus Shale drillers fined for methane migration. via /r/environment http://t.co/SW8hrgW6Vb http://t.co/sJdkafMUOc
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Saw you posting the ingredients to my secret recipe yesterday – Imgur
Saw you posting the ingredients to my secret recipe yesterday http://t.co/NkwLBejeZ9 http://t.co/J36mxsyXwo
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Found this awesome pic I took while truckin through Vail CO [3624×1836] : EarthPorn
Found this awesome pic I took while truckin through Vail CO [3624×1836] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/9UduoKnGMj http://t.co/hEZ5Tte5EN
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Dropped a red slushie, made for a good snapchat : funny
Dropped a red slushie, made for a good snapchat via /r/funny http://t.co/sBIBJsV2Yr http://t.co/oTk4fsBYwS
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Hiker badly burned after jumping into Idaho hot springs to try to save dog | US news | The Guardian
A man hiking through a national forest in Idaho suffered severe burns and his two dogs were scalded to death when they leaped into a hot spring and he jumped in to try to save them, authorities said on Tuesday.
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Shondaland now pretty much unstoppable, sells nun drama to ABC · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The ongoing love affair between ABC and Shonda Rhimes’ production company Shondaland shows no signs of abating, with the network gobbling up shows as fast as Rhimes and her cohorts can pitch.
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PredictSpring Helps Brands Embrace Mobile Shopping | TechCrunch
Longtime Googler Nitin Mangtani (manager for a number of products including Google Shopping) has founded a startup of his own, PredictSpring, where he’s working to help brands and retailers get up-to-speed with mobile commerce.
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Kosovo and Serbia sign ‘landmark’ agreements – BBC News
Kosovo and Serbia have signed a series of agreements in key areas, in a major step towards normalising ties. Serbs in northern Kosovo will enjoy greater rights through one of the deals, while Kosovo gains its own international dialling code in anoth…
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Verizon’s ‘Hum’ Turns Any Clunker Into a Connected Car | WIRED
Many modern cars come with a service like OnStar. Get lost or get in an accident and help is a button press away. These days, they’ll even send a push notification to your phone if your ride’s got a mechanical problem or needs service.
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An Open Source Map That Tracks the Government’s Hard Work | WIRED
Data is immensely powerful. The trick lies in organizing the stuff. The good news is that so many organizations are now offering tools that help with this—and so many of these tools are open source. The White House is among the many who are tapping …
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70Mbps Gogo in-flight internet approved by FAA : technology
70Mbps Gogo in-flight internet approved by FAA via /r/technology http://t.co/UUQTNgsfWj http://t.co/q1Vfeue4cO
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Frozen Lake, Preikestolen, Norway by Europe Trotter / 500px
Frozen Lake, Preikestolen, Norway by EuropeTrotter http://t.co/8I5fWaHF3l http://t.co/uRL3T63uCX
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Jeb Bush went to the border town of McAllen, Tex., on Monday to raise money and to talk about immigration, in English and fluent Spanish.
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Employee Of The Month · Playing House · TV Review · The A.V. Club
Playing House has largely been a chance for Keegan-Michael Key to play it straight as Mark. On the brilliant Key & Peele he bursts with a kinetic energy, playing each of characters with a physical enthusiasm, his long limbs askew whenever possible.
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Salt Farming Image, Bali – National Geographic Photo of the Day
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Verizon’s Hum will turn your beater into a connected car | The Verge
Verizon is announcing Hum today, a two-piece hardware system bundled with a phone app and monthly plan that give basically any old car (1996 or newer) OnStar-like capabilities, ranging from stolen vehicle tracking to Check Engine light remote diagno…
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My parents, circa 1970s, with elaborate hamster cage in background : OldSchoolCool
My parents, circa 1970s, with elaborate hamster cage in background via /r/OldSchoolCool http://t.co/0JxJmArV01 http://t.co/dgcoIjV3ks
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Contemplating life. via /r/aww http://t.co/kygBecZ5EC http://t.co/OkKN5DANXX
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Trail in the temperate forests of North Bend, WA [oc] [960×960] : EarthPorn
Trail in the temperate forests of North Bend, WA [oc] [960×960] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/NXZ65rv2Qa http://t.co/DHFg20UnNN
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Salt Farming Image, Bali – National Geographic Photo of the Day
The Pinch of Salt http://t.co/DlDeh7v7xk
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MRW I’m drunk and my girlfriend is ignoring me. [OC] : reactiongifs
MRW I’m drunk and my girlfriend is ignoring me. [OC] via /r/reactiongifs http://t.co/jxDMOZv5Sy http://t.co/36rQbyOGZO
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Two of Australia’s three native wombat species are under threat from a disease which can leave the animal blind and deaf, and eventually kill them.
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Car flips on Utah highway during police chase – video | US news | The Guardian
A 32-year-old driver collided with a state trooper’s cruiser, ending a dramatic chase on a busy Utah highway on Monday. A car was reported driving the wrong way and as traffic was slowed to protect other vehicles, a state trooper pursued the erratic…
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AT&T reportedly playing dirty tricks to serve extra ads through airport hotspot | The Verge
AT&T’s “free” Wi-Fi may be too good to be true. One of the company’s Wi-Fi hotspots, in Virginia’s Dulles airport, is reportedly using an ad-injection platform to tamper with the web traffic of users and bombard them with more ads.
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You seeing what I’m seeing? : pics
You seeing what I’m seeing? (i.imgur.com) Either says Adolf or Hope…but I mean really, what’s the difference?
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Mount Rainier on the brink of golden hour [2048×1283][OC] : unitedstatesofamerica
Mount Rainier on the brink of golden hour [2048×1283][OC] via /r/unitedstatesofamerica http://t.co/atsB2YJkX2 http://t.co/zl0K71vndr
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Hawaii’s Waikiki beach deserted after heavy rains trigger huge sewage spill | US news | The Guardian
Stretches of Waikiki’s white sands and blue waters were deserted on Tuesday after officials warned that heavy rains had triggered a sewage spill of half a million gallons (1.9m liters) near Hawaii’s best-known tourist district.
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DUBUQUE, Iowa – A journalist for the Spanish-language network Univision who asked Donald J. Trump about immigration was mocked by the candidate, then escorted out of a news conference here on Tuesday evening.
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ELI5: Stephen Hawking’s new theory on black holes : explainlikeimfive
ELI5: Stephen Hawking’s new theory on black holes (self.
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This is a baby Blue Heron. : interestingasfuck
This is a baby Blue Heron. via /r/interestingasfuck http://t.co/P8kMfCAnBJ http://t.co/c1TyFzfcn2
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JPL’s Asteroid Grappling Robot : space
JPL’s Asteroid Grappling Robot via /r/space http://t.co/dlwjhjpBMt http://t.co/CTjY2zoHQR
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~ Magic of summer ~ by Jasna Matz / 500px
~ Magic of summer ~ by jmatz http://t.co/PsOm7as1qQ http://t.co/fwAQXjuHX0
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The Australian government has obtained information from US environmental regulators on the impact of fracking upon water supplies to help inform a new set of guidelines it is preparing on the controversial activity.
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A 14-year-old boy held 29 students and a teacher at gunpoint in a West Virginia high school classroom on Tuesday afternoon before he released them after negotiations and surrendered, authorities said. No injuries were reported.
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Oregon motorcyclist hit by lightning – Boing Boing
Motorists behind the cyclist saw lightning strike his helmet. Dazed, the gentleman pulled over and then rode on to look for assistance.
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One World Trade by Ryan Millier / 500px
One World Trade by ryanmillier http://t.co/60caDqQJkB http://t.co/FnlPEHaygm
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My picture of the Moon taken earlier this evening. : space
My picture of the Moon taken earlier this evening. via /r/space http://t.co/aRZtmTFQiw http://t.co/SYqnLjifq0
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Took this picture in Livingston, Montana [1920×1080] : EarthPorn
Took this picture in Livingston, Montana [1920×1080] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/OuMbqdEtFm http://t.co/kyoMn5UHtB
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Earths Atmospheric Layers js – Just Space
Earths Atmospheric Layers js http://t.co/JEq0Mj01hS http://t.co/4d2Zhe8yBC
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Corgi chases own leash around a crate (x/post /r/corgi) : perfectloops
Corgi chases own leash around a crate (x/post /r/corgi) via /r/perfectloops http://t.co/Ut0Ucr2LIb http://t.co/Byqj55HQkh
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Open thread for night owls: Report says anti-ISIS bombing has killed 100s of civilians. U.S. says 2
The jail was a symptom of the harsh rule the Islamic State had imposed in early 2014. When ISIS took over the town, in the Aleppo region near the Turkish border, ordinary life gave way to a reign of terror.
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Jason Mitchell heads Straight Outta Compton, straight to Skull Island · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Universal’s King Kong origin story, Kong: Skull Island, is apparently turning into a Straight Outta Compton reunion party, with Jason Mitchell, who played Eazy-E in F. Gary Gray’s N.W.A. biopic, signing on for a role in the film.
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me irl via /r/me_irl http://t.co/pSryeOevFE http://t.co/XMQ5qF1TYY
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I got a picture of my Bartholomew yawning : cats
I got a picture of my Bartholomew yawning via /r/cats http://t.co/vwDzVfPLqL http://t.co/W2XvnrFF3C
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How to surprise a package thief. : funny
How to surprise a package thief. via /r/funny http://t.co/5wGGpr4jZ8 http://t.co/xwz4cCztUW
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Channel Seven reportedly in talks with NFL to screen Jarryd Hayne games | Sport | The Guardian
Channel Seven hopes to jump aboard the Jarryd Hayne bandwagon after the free-to-air television station reportedly entered into negotiations with the NFL over covering San Francisco 49ers games next season.
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Donald Trump in Iowa: ‘Obama-esque’ campaign but the same mouthy mogul | US news | The Guardian
Donald Trump may have had a celebrated Latino newsman thrown out of a press conference on Tuesday, and declared that two of his rivals for president were “hugging and kissing and holding each other”, but he is establishing a real frontrunner campaig…
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Napa Wine Train Apologizes to book club | Al Jazeera America
The Napa Valley Wine Train issued an apology Tuesday to a book club that includes mostly black women who said they were booted from a tasting tour because of their race.
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Certainly the Best Tiny House I’ve Seen. [1400×934] : RoomPorn
Certainly the Best Tiny House I’ve Seen. [1400×934] via /r/RoomPorn http://t.co/0YMOFjQXeg http://t.co/AfKhEWbCwi
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Relaxing by the window via /r/cats http://t.co/su7Jgc1qu4 http://t.co/Z7BtdUeyTW
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Runs Out Of Rain by Aaron J. Groen / 500px
Runs Out Of Rain by AaronGroen http://t.co/lFpLgfkc9f http://t.co/WC5a2TtYnH
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Flaked, Will Arnett’s live-action Netflix show, casts its female lead · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Flaked, Netflix’s upcoming entry in the years-long experiment to keep a live-action Will Arnett vehicle on the air for more than a season and change, has cast its female lead.
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Children’s Entertainer in Times Square, NYC [OC] [5087×3391] : HumanPorn
Children’s Entertainer in Times Square, NYC [OC] [5087×3391] via /r/HumanPorn http://t.co/VToUQZkfhH http://t.co/4d7cYhaUCz
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Irony? via /r/funny http://t.co/ks6ulQSWeQ http://t.co/U1sFWranY6
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Journalist kicked out of Donald Trump news conference – BBC News
A news anchor was thrown out of a Donald Trump news conference after asking a question about immigration, without being called on first.Jorge Ramos, who works for the Spanish-language channel Univision, was removed by a security guard from the event…
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‘There Is No Military Solution’ for Refugee Flood | Al Jazeera America
Up to 3,000 people are projected to cross Macedonian borders per day this year, prompting the United Nations refugee agency to once again urge the European Union to develop a comprehensive immigration strategy. On Tuesday, the U.N.
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At Long Last, LG Launches a Flat-Screen OLED TV | WIRED
By most accounts, an OLED TV is the best television set money can buy. It just takes a whole lot of money. The key to OLED’s astounding picture quality is razor-sharp contrast.
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Pennsylvania prosecutors accused of rampant financial and professional misconduct
On Monday, Andrew Novak wrote in the Daily Beast that electing prosecutors has “disastrous consequences for justice.” For evidence of such prosecutorial injustice and corruption, you need look no further than the state of Pennsylvania.
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US Ambassador to Japan also used personal email amid Hillary Clinton drama | US news | The Guardian
Caroline Kennedy, the US Ambassador to Japan, used her personal email for official business despite a State Department policy advising employees to avoid this, an internal audit has found.
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UN calls on Europe to create working refugee strategy – Al Jazeera English
The UN’s High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has called on European countries to come together to create a working strategy to deal with the massive influx of refugees making their way to Europe.
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The Milky Way: A pillar of light js – Just Space
The Milky Way: A pillar of light js http://t.co/IQAJu3yTX9 http://t.co/sJmmltKg6N
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Midwest marshes, DeSoto Bend in Iowa (OC) [3462×2311] : EarthPorn
Midwest marshes, DeSoto Bend in Iowa (OC) [3462×2311] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/0qvGWKN5vK http://t.co/F3JAipbgzy
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DeSoto Bend, Iowa (OC) [3462z2311] : unitedstatesofamerica
DeSoto Bend, Iowa (OC) [3462z2311] via /r/unitedstatesofamerica http://t.co/Is4d7Gx09X http://t.co/0jmo8yYsru
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South Sudan: UN to ‘act immediately’ unless peace deal signed – BBC News
The UN has said it is ready to “act immediately” unless South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir signs a peace deal with rebels. Mr Kiir is scheduled to sign a deal to end months of brutal civil war later on Wednesday, although his spokesman said he still…
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J.K. Simmons, Jane Lynch, and more will star in Kevin Pollak’s first film · Newswire · The A.V. Club
As reported by Variety, Kevin Pollak is getting ready to make his directorial debut with The Late Bloomer, an adaptation of Ken Baker’s 2001 memoir Man Made: A Memoir Of My Body.
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ABC developing drama that combines Romeo And Juliet with “global jihad” · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Hot off solving the mysteries of human sexual relationships with her drama Mistresses (and before that, America’s epidemic of sad, handsome doctors with Everwood), TV producer Rina Mimoun is teaming up with ABC to tackle the problems of immigrant li…
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Shoreham air crash victims’ families continue search – BBC News
Investigators are continuing to trace up to seven further suspected victims of the Shoreham air disaster. Four victims have been named by their families and the names of two others who are missing have emerged. Police believe it is likely 11 people …
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Warren Buffett: ‘Predicting Rain Doesn’t Count. Building Arks Does’ | Observer
The financial journalist William Green has covered Warren Buffett for some 20 years. Back in May, he wrote a story for the Observer summarizing the ten quotes from Warren Buffett that have most resonated with him over the years.
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Maryland Moves Last Inmates From Decrepit Jail | Al Jazeera America
Maryland moved the last inmates out of the dangerously decrepit men’s section of the Baltimore City Detention Center on Tuesday, state officials said, completing the closure of the notorious facility.
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A Viking Battles Monsters in This Cartoon—And Every Second is Hilariously Gruesome
With a title like Odin’s Afterbirth, you would hope that this short animated film brought plenty of over-the-top gore. And it doesn’t disappoint with its grotesque story of a viking heck-bent on revenge, even in defiance of the Norse All-father hims…
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Marlon Brando on the set of Apocalypse Now [3447 x 2263] : HumanPorn
Marlon Brando on the set of Apocalypse Now [3447 x 2263] via /r/HumanPorn http://t.co/rSouSQzfh9 http://t.co/tPlTQYemss
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old fisherman by idrusarsyad http://t.co/CZdAcogeyq http://t.co/26oVijkM1r
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Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, on a misty morning [OC] [1500×993] : waterporn
Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, on a misty morning [OC] [1500×993] via /r/waterporn http://t.co/inRKT19kSe http://t.co/RW2KyeEO8Q
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My friend couldn’t find her dog anywhere. And then her neighbor called. : funny
My friend couldn’t find her dog anywhere. And then her neighbor called. via /r/funny http://t.co/2q1ocLqQyD http://t.co/PxTwTpmb1v
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Jon Cryer Is Determined to Get Jon Hamm a Mad Men Acting Emmy | Vanity Fair
Criminally, Jon Hamm has not received a single lead-actor Emmy for his work on Mad Men after seven (7!) nominations.
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See Carrie Underwood’s Smoldering ‘Smoke Break’ Video | Rolling Stone
Carrie Underwood’s upcoming fifth studio album is called Storyteller, and the video for its lead single casts her in the role of one — albeit one who walks through the Mojave Desert in slow-mo, looking sizzling hot in fringed boots and denim shorts …
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A paediatricians’ group in the US is recommending that infants at high risk of peanut allergies be given foods containing peanuts before they are 12 months old.
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He was a bright, handsome and winning patient. His first three sessions had been perfectly ordinary. And yet a few minutes before his fourth session, I found myself ardently wishing for him not to come. This feeling was puzzling. It had overtaken me…
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Gas and Dust of the Lagoon Nebula Spans across 50… – Just Space
Gas and Dust of the Lagoon Nebula Spans across 50 Light-Years. … http://t.co/Xh6P55naha http://t.co/dJqH1lO9pF
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Hat on, hat off, hat on, hat off… : perfectloops
Hat on, hat off, hat on, hat off… via /r/perfectloops http://t.co/4OS0qAXGNH http://t.co/RO7d8ryBSE
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Very rare electrical storm over Cape Town, South Africa (23/08/15) : Breathless
Very rare electrical storm over Cape Town, South Africa (23/08/15) via /r/Breathless http://t.co/B7KjQRxeBL http://t.co/4CaF3KpBQY
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I don’t think we can hang out anymore. : TrollXChromosomes
I don’t think we can hang out anymore. via /r/TrollXChromosomes http://t.co/5PO2wxXNvO http://t.co/yb9iAxhr0S
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Ex-Guatemala leader to face retrial despite dementia – BBC News
Guatemala’s former military leader General Efrain Rios Montt must face retrial for genocide despite suffering from dementia, a court has ruled. But the court ordered that the hearing must take place behind closed doors, and he cannot be sentenced if…
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Giant panda Mei Xiang is worrying zookeepers at Washington DC’s National zoo by focusing her care on the larger of her newborn twins. This behaviour is normal in panda mothers, so the keepers have a system.
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Asian stocks in fresh falls as sell-off continues – BBC News
Asian shares have opened lower again as concerns over China’s slowing growth continue to haunt investors. Chinese mainland shares have fallen more 16% since the beginning of the week, sending shockwaves through global markets.
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UK theatre director Jonathan Church joins Sydney Theatre – BBC News
The man who led a major turnaround in UK theatre has taken on one of the top jobs in Australian theatre. The Sydney Theatre Company (STC) has named Jonathan Church its artistic director, replacing Andrew Upton.
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Furiosa’s Story Was Deeper In Early Versions Of Mad Max: Fury Road
Mad Max: Fury Road is now available for digital download and will be on Blu-ray next week. So this is usually when a ton of additional information about a film is uncovered. Case in point, some images from an “Art Of” book reveal writer/director Geo…
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Why is ISIL targeting cultural heritage? – Al Jazeera English
The armed group seized Palmyra from government forces in May, fuelling fears that it might destroy its priceless heritage. It was not the first time the group targeted a cultural site. Back in February, its fighters destroyed the Mosul museum afte…
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Low vitamin-D genes linked to MS – BBC News
People genetically prone to low vitamin-D levels are at increased risk of multiple sclerosis, a large study suggests. The findings, based on the DNA profiles of tens of thousands of people of European descent, add weight to the theory that the sunsh…
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The former Labor foreign minister Bob Carr has backed calls for Australia to join airstrikes in Syria, saying the west has “a moral obligation” to save civilians from Islamic State atrocities.
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Maze Runner director Wes Ball moves on to “epic Norse fantasy” · Newswire · The A.V. Club
After successfully navigating his way through The Maze Runner and its upcoming sequel, The Scorch Trials, director Wes Ball has already lined up his next project.
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A Miami couple marries underwater 8km off Key Largo, Florida, on Tuesday.
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In pictures: Artists takeover Ghana’s streets – BBC News
In pictures: Artists takeover Ghana’s streets The streets of Ghana’s capital have been alive with artistic talent, from photography and graffiti to live music and DJ sets, says p
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The Floating Triple Monitor Workspace for Two
It’s a clean, white DIY workspace shared by two people. It’s got three floating monitors. It’s got a Hackintosh. And it’s today’s featured workspace. Flickr user nltr8ner shares his sleek setup with us.
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Contact the author at rtgonzalez@io9.com.
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Alien in a bottle. : interestingasfuck
Alien in a bottle. via /r/interestingasfuck http://t.co/mpd18etUZY http://t.co/9Ph9OBdklT
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Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness, Anatomy of a fox via /r/foxes…
Anatomy of a fox via /r/foxes http://t.co/ikPegiyov9 http://t.co/U7lTBw31B3 http://t.co/1aCaNsGFd6
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Anatomy of a fox via /r/foxes http://t.co/ikPegiyov9 http://t.co/U7lTBw31B3 http://t.co/1aCaNsGFd6
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In pictures: Artists takeover Ghana’s streets – BBC News
In pictures: Artists takeover Ghana’s streets http://t.co/4X2241D2bU
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End Israel’s blockade of Gaza, petition urges – Al Jazeera English
One year after a ceasefire agreement ended Gaza’s 51-day war, hundreds of thousands of people have signed a petition urging world leaders to pressure Israel to lift its blockade of the Palestinian territory.
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I was a waiter/bartender at a restaurant in an exclusive location in Tokyo. We were frequented by many of the types recounted in this piece: bankers, expats, CEOs, celebrities and generally wealthy people.
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What I Learned From Sequencing the Bacteria in My Apartment | WIRED
Three years ago, I lived in a tiny New York City walkup with one human roommate and untold billions of bacteria. I know this for a fact because I once swabbed four surfaces of my apartment and sent the samples in for sequencing with a citizen scienc…
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Why Times Square’s topless women may be here to stay – BBC News
A new breed of scantily clad street performers are becoming a nuisance to New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, but he is finding that taming Times Square is not as simple as it seems.
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Ted Cruz doing great with people who previously lost their election bids
Hooray, and so forth.
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At a press conference today in Iowa, Donald Trump had his bodygaurds forcibly remove Univision anchor Jorge Ramos from the room. As Ramos continues to try to ask his question, Trump’s body gaurd pushes him out of the room.
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Mosaic of Iapetus, third largest moon of Saturn,… – Just Space
Mosaic of Iapetus, third largest moon of Saturn, as seen by the… http://t.co/dksQd0SeWo http://t.co/S8KgtWx12i
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Misty Deluge by Chris Williams Exploration Photography / 500px
Misty Deluge by cwexplorationphotography http://t.co/1wtp0OGSOK http://t.co/6uehq52bqm
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Kid Trips And Punches A Hole Through A Million-Dollar Painting – Digg
Over the weekend, a boy holding a drink tripped over his own two feet and broke his fall with a 350-year-old Italian still life worth $1.5 million.
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Snowy Street Corner in Washington DC [1700×1209] : CityPorn
Snowy Street Corner in Washington DC [1700×1209] via /r/CityPorn http://t.co/b4pIpJFR2s http://t.co/f1gL7LigGr
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Perth, Australia [858×536] : CityPorn
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Feeling the Bern With the Youth Vote – The New Yorker
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Update on my ginger stray : cats
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Pather Panchali – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wikipedia article of the day for August 26, 2015 http://t.co/iaDJ6V1HMF
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BBC News – France Thalys train attack provokes rail security row
An argument over spot checks at French railway stations is one sign of how complicated it will be to increase security on trains following last Friday’s foiled attack on the Amsterdam-Paris Thalys.
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Gas Giants: Facts About the Outer Planets
The planets of the solar system as depicted by a NASA computer illustration. Orbits and sizes are not shown to scale.Credit: NASA View full size image A gas giant is a large planet composed mostly of gases, such as hydrogen and helium, with a relati…
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More Layoffs For Intuit As Company Continues Realignment | TechCrunch
Intuit is laying off 249 employees, mostly in the company’s Small Business Group, according to an internal memo from CEO Brad Smith reviewed by TechCrunch. We first heard about the layoffs this morning, and Intuit also confirmed the layoffs to TechC…
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Fast & Furious is Finally Getting a Theme Park Ride | Vanity Fair
Fast & Furious has achieved more than any machismo-fueled, special effects-heavy film franchise could have hoped for. It parlayed a two-word concept (cool cars) into seven movies’ worth of deliciously ridiculous plots. It earned some form of critica…
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“He said, after he put the condom on, it was sobering moment. He had a moment of self restraint and stopped. He called it a moment of divine inspiration,” Concord police detective Julie Curtin testified on Tuesday.
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Horses for sale in Ukraine’s privatisation drive – BBC News
Ukraine’s government intends to privatise some 340 state-owned companies in the upcoming months, in a sweeping programme that officials hope will reduce inefficiency, halt billions of dollars in losses and strike a decisive blow against corruption.
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DC Comics’ New Formula For Success: Stop Shaking Things Up
It’s not been a good day for DC Comics. Earlier this morning, the company announced that it was down over $2 million in its total revenue and expenditure for the last financial year.
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To stop massive wildfires, we’re going to have to change our strategy | Grist
Even if you don’t live in a state that’s currently burning, you’ve probably heard about the massive wildfires across the country: More than 1,200 firefighters are fighting one huge, hellish blaze in Washington.
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Wider Reach Is Sought for Costly New Hepatitis C Treatments http://t.co/mejH5dgmkU
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A Few Thoughts On Tech Stocks | TechCrunch
Shares in technology companies have recently come under intense pressure, similar to other equities, markets, commodities and more. How far tech shops have declined, however, is worth digging into.
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UK to bolster measures against illegal workers – Al Jazeera English
The UK government has announced that people who work in the country illegally will face up to six months in prison. In its latest crackdown, Britain would also close businesses found to be employing individuals who have no legal right to be in the c…
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Benedict Cumberbatch ‘magnificent’ as Hamlet – BBC News
Benedict Cumberbatch received an enthusiastic reception from a celebrity-packed audience on the official opening night of Hamlet in London. His Sherlock co-star Mark Gatiss described Cumberbatch as “magnificent”.
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BBC News – Europe migrants: Tracing perilous Balkan route to Germany
For many thousands of migrants heading to Europe from the Middle East, the long route to a new life now lies through Greece and the Western Balkans with the ultimate destination in Germany and other northern EU countries.
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Why Indian women must shun sex to claim alimony – BBC News
A court in southern India recently ruled that a woman divorced for being adulterous could not claim maintenance from her ex-husband.
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Can Syrian refugees live on $13.50 a month? – BBC News
Can Syrian refugees live on $13.50 a month? 26 August 2015 Last updated at 00:22 BST A shortage in funding has forced the World Food Program to slash the aid assistance it provides to Syrian refugees in Lebanon by more than half.
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Dozens rescued as wild weather lashes NSW south coast – BBC News
Hundreds of residents south of Sydney have been force to flee their homes because of rising floodwaters. Nearly 70 people have been rescued from floodwaters since the severe weather first lashed Sydney’s southern suburbs on Monday.
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BBC News – Why NYC students spend the summer studying for one test
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Extended edition of The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies is R-rated · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Warner Bros. has announced that the inevitable extended version of Peter Jackson’s final Hobbit film, The Battle Of The Five Armies, will be released with an R-rating, contrasting with the theatrical release’s PG-13.
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The Flash casts yet another speedster · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The Flash is making even more room in the fast lane as TVLine reports that season two will have a lady speedster. Newcomer Violett Beane—who was probably previously best known for having superfluous letters in her first and last names—will have a re…
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New Zealand gov’t promises secret courts for accused terrorists – Boing Boing
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BBC News – When Moscow banned Fairly liquid, and other Western cleaning products
As Russian authorities took steps to remove foreign washing-up liquid and washing powder from shelves, Russians online reacted with both concern – and plenty of jokes.
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Keegan-Michael Key (Key & Peele), Gillian Jacobs (Community), and Kate Micucci (Garfunkel And Oates) have all been cast in Mike Birbiglia’s upcoming dramatic comedy Don’t Think Twice.
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The complete Legend Of Korra is coming to blu-ray and DVD · Newswire · The A.V. Club
For four seasons, Nickelodeon seemed to go out of its way to make it hard for people to watch The Legend Of Korra, its Avatar: The Last Airbender sequel series.
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BBC News – The Mexican-American march against the Vietnam War
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Straight Outta Compton is officially a big hit, to the point where it has now finally made N.W.A. into a commercially successful rap group that just happens to have broken up decades ago. That’s at least according to Billboard’s “Hot 100,” which now…
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Watch These Water Insects Engage in “Meniscus Climbing”
This wonderful video, “Life at the Interface,” shows how insects who live on the water make use of, or get tripped up by, fluid dynamics. You can see insects shoot up towards the edge of a container or fall helplessly into one another.
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What is mayonnaise? One way to answer that question is “pretty gross,” but the answer is also, at least according to the FDA, something with “egg yolk-containing ingredients” and it’s that second definition that’s causing a legal and culinary battle…
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Judge Orders Temporary Halt to Miss. Executions | Al Jazeera America
U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate issued a temporary restraining order saying Mississippi officials cannot use pentobarbital or midazolam, two drugs used to render prisoners unconscious.
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Maybe We Aren’t Getting A Guardians of the Galaxy/Avengers Crossover Movie
Jeremy Renner is a great actor, but either a new interview is his best performance yet or he’s really heard nothing about an eventual Avengers/Guardians of the Galaxy crossover. When asked about the proposition, the Hawkeye actor seemed incredibly s…
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The galaxy NGC 7673 is located in the… – Just Space
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Brother Benedict, stupefied by the Lord’s invigorating brew : monkslookingatbeer
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This machine. : oddlysatisfying
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When a post reaches front page : perfectloops
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Tehran, Iran [800×462] : CityPorn
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BBC News – Thousands of microbes found in house dust
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BBC News – Braille ‘dot’ smartwatch developed for blind people
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Jugglers get chip-equipped balls – BBC News
Intel engineer Nathan Peterson is a juggling enthusiast. Using the US firm’s Edison chip, he was able to create smart juggling balls that can detect their position in the air.
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California may ban drones from trespassing over private property | The Verge
The California State Assembly yesterday passed legislation that would make drone operators guilty of trespassing if they fly their UAVs over private property.
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BBC News – Intel Inside… literally?
Intel Inside… literally? Intel is one of the world’s most recognisable technology brands. But with a disappointing presence in the smartphone market, where will Intel turn for future success? One of Intel’s marketing masterstrokes in the 1990s was…
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Federal judge’s order suspends use of two drugs in Mississippi executions | US news | The Guardian
US district judge Henry T Wingate issued a temporary restraining order Tuesday saying Mississippi officials cannot use pentobarbital or midazolam, two drugs used to render prisoners unconscious.
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The former European commissioner for climate action Connie Hedegaard has urged countries to acknowledge the cost of reducing emissions to fight climate change, and called on politicians to shift away from short-term thinking.
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Painting change on India’s streets – BBC News
Many Indian cities are littered with graffiti and painted advertisements, but street art as a concept has never really caught on. But one young design professional in Mumbai has adopted the medium to try and spread a powerful message against patriar…
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BBC News – Thousands of microbes found in house dust
The dust in our homes contains an average of 9,000 different species of microbes, a study suggests. Researchers from the University of Colorado at Boulder analysed the dust found in 1,200 households across the United States.
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White sky at night not a city bird’s delight | @GrrlScientist | Science | The Guardian
A study published today in the journal Biology Letters reports that free-living urban songbirds have increased levels of the stress hormone, corticosterone, in their bloodstream when they nest under street lights.
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Aphantasia: A life without mental images – BBC News
Close your eyes and imagine walking along a sandy beach and then gazing over the horizon as the Sun rises. How clear an image springs to mind? Most people can readily conjure images inside their head – known as their mind’s eye.
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How many national anthems are plagiarised? – BBC News
Several of the world’s national anthems are shockingly similar to other compositions. Is this because composers pilfer other people’s tunes – or does it tell us more about the difficulties of writing an original melody, asks Alex Marshall, author of…
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BBC Sport – Valencia become fifth Spanish team in Champions League
Spain became the first nation to have five teams qualify for the Champions League group stages as Valencia beat Monaco in a qualifying play-off.
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Hot Looks: Summer is Not Over Yet! | Vanity Fair
The summer days may be winding down (whether we like it or not), but that is no excuse to stop using sunscreen. Here is a second roundup of our favorites. 1) Omorovicza Mineral UV Shield S.P.F. 30: This mineral sunscreen is perfect for those who are…
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Stories from Our Advertisers WASHINGTON — AS Jimmy Carter moves into the twilight of his life, it is enormously
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Three Simple Items You Should Always Have on You When Traveling the World
If there’s one person that can provide tips on traveling world, it’s Gunnar Garfors. He’s been to every one of the 198 countries in the world. Here are three items he suggests you should always have on you that you might not have considered.
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“Desksourcing” Is A New Labor Market Concept In The Mobile-First World | TechCrunch
I’ve always been fascinated by how labor markets work. People are the foundation for how things get done. How we organize across and within companies impacts both creativity and efficiency. The first big labor market shift in my lifetime that I can …
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Neil Young – Alabama – YouTube
Track 3 (side two) from the album, “Harvest” (1972).Full “Harvest” album playlist – http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=…
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My sister’s mug recommends being used right side up : mildlyinteresting
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This guy saved me 250 bucks : AdviceAnimals
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Straight from the First World Anarchists’ Cookbook : firstworldanarchists
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From my trip to Sylhet, Bangladesh [OC] [4682×3101] : EarthPorn
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Two boys attacked for being albino given new prosthetic limbs – video | US news | The Guardian
Baraka Lusambo, 5, and Mwigulu Matonange, 12, learn to use their new prosthetic limbs after a brutal attack in Tanzania. The two boys, who have albinism, are receiving treatment at Shriners Hospital for Children in Philadelphia after being rescued b…
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The Ashley Madison hackers are big AC/DC fans, apparently · Newswire · The A.V. Club
According to a report in Billboard, the group calling itself The Impact Team, which recently exposed the personal data of users of the FarmersOnly of people who can’t keep it in their pants, Ashley Madison, apparently used AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck” to…
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Giant Washington Wildfire Spotted from Space (Photo)
This image of wildfires throughout the western United States was collected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite on Aug. 23, 2015. Actively burning areas are outlined in red.
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There’s more Dr. Steve Brule coming next year · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Dr. Steve Brule, the deranged man-child birthed from the mind of actor John C. Reilly and midwifed by weird comedy doulas Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, is making his way back to TV.
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BBC News – Syria’s Assad ‘confident’ of Iranian and Russian support
The Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, has said he is confident he has the continuing support of key allies Iran and Russia. But Mr Assad said Russia and Iran did not abandon their friends.
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The Extended Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Will Be R-Rated, Somehow
Apparently, the extra twenty minutes being added to the extended DVD were where all the superviolence and nudity was hiding. Finally, the grim and gritty version of The Hobbit we were all waiting for.
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Truck Fights A Bridge, With Predictable Results – Digg
The East Street Bridge in Westwood, MA is infamous for being unusually low, much to the detriment of oversize vehicles. Luckily no one was hurt, although the truck itself didn’t fare quite as well.
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FL Fight Over Congressional Maps Back on Trial | Al Jazeera America
Florida legislators, stymied in repeated efforts to draw congressional districts that meet a constitutional anti-gerrymandering rule, took their standoff before a circuit judge Tuesday.
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Award-Winning Casting Director Says Diversity Isn’t A Trend, It’s Evolution : Code Switch : NPR
In today’s crowded TV landscape, the casting director’s job is no small thing. And that talent will be honored at the Emmy Awards next month.
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Proud Couple by Harry Eggens / 500px
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Alarm bells sound over Australian property prices – Al Jazeera English
A fortnight ago, my family and I moved house. It is always traumatic; and it’s amazing how much two young girls can add to the load. As well as furniture, we had about 60 boxes to shift. Packing and unpacking took three days.
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Has Stephen Hawking Just Solved a Huge Black-Hole Mystery?
This artist’s concept shows a black hole’s surroundings, including its accretion disk, jet and magnetic field.Credit: ESO/L. Calçada View full size image Stephen Hawking may have just solved one of the most vexing mysteries in physics — the “informa…
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Leading union files complaint against WeWork over cleaners who lost jobs | US news | The Guardian
The largest US union for building service employees has filed an unfair work practices complaint against the office-share company WeWork after more than 90% of its contracted cleaners in New York lost their jobs following a lengthy dispute over pay …
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Keep Conference Calls Short by Scheduling Them Right Before Other Events
Some conference calls can seem like they drag on endlessly. To silence the chatterboxes and get things moving, avoid scheduling calls during slow, wide open time periods in the day.http://lifehacker.com/5925310/how-to…
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This Week On The Line: Sydney Lupkin Discusses Her Recent Reports On Health Issues | VICE News
On Thursday at 12pm EDT VICE News reporter Sydney Lupkin joins On The Line to discuss Truvada for HIV prevention, the right to die, and LGBT med school curriculums.
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These $19 Cooking Thermometers Give You a Reading In Under Four Seconds
If you don’t want to shell out for a Thermapen, these colorful meat thermometers give you a reading within four seconds, stick to your fridge via a built-in magnet, and boast a 4.5 star review average. [Cooking Thermometers, $19 with code UWPHWK8N. …
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The NRA Is Suing Seattle Over a Tax on Guns and Bullets | VICE News
The National Rifle Association (NRA), along with two other pro-gun groups, is suing the city of Seattle for taxing firearm and ammunition sellers in order to fund efforts to prevent gun violence.
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Ted Cruz Rallies Evangelicals In Campaign To Defund Planned Parenthood : It’s All Politics : NPR
Evangelical voters are courted every presidential election by Republicans, especially in Iowa. But this year, they could have an even larger impact. That’s because a slew of Southern states are holding primaries on the same day in March of next year…
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Cyndi Lauper – Time After Time – YouTube
Cyndi Lauper’s official music video for ‘Time After Time’. Click to listen to Cyndi Lauper on Spotify: http://smarturl.it/CyndiLauperSpotify…As featured on The Essential Cyndi Lauper. Click to buy the track or album via iTunes:… http://smarturl.it/
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A Hawaiian clean energy plant makes electricity from seawater and ammonia | Grist
The ocean is often considered to be the final frontier for energy, whether we’re talking about Arctic oil reserves or giant floating wind turbines.
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Vegetation Limits City Warming Effects : Image of the Day
Cities are well-known hot spots—literally. The urban heat island effect has been observed to raise the temperature of cities by 1 to 3°C (2 to 5 °F) compared to neighboring rural and semi-rural areas.
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BBC News – Wandering penguin picked up by Peruvian police
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Mei Xiang snubs smaller cub as she cares for larger one – BBC News
The smaller in a pair of newborn panda twins at the National Zoo in Washington is getting less attention from her mother than the larger one. Zoo officials said the mother, Mei Xiang, is refusing to let the smaller one get swapped in for feedings.
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This Week On The Line: Sydney Lupkin Discusses Her Recent Reports On Health Issues | VICE News
On Thursday at 12pm EDT VICE News reporter Sydney Lupkin joins On The Line to discuss Truvada for HIV prevention, the right to die, and LGBT med school curriculums.
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Jeb Bush joins conservatives in call to defund Planned Parenthood | US news | The Guardian
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush says Planned Parenthood should be denied government funding, joining a conservative backlash to the women’s healthcare organization that has seen several states revoke its funding.
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BBC News – Turkish air force to join anti-IS campaign
The US and Turkey have reached an agreement which will see Turkish jets join the air campaign against Islamic State (IS) militants. American officials hailed the agreement as “a significant step forward” in the fight against IS.
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Mad Max: Fury Road retold as an ancient Egyptian hieroglyph · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Mad Max: Fury Road has already begun its hellbent descent on digital download platforms, and will arrive at the Valhalla of home video next week. But there’s no denying that out of all the films this summer, none have inspired as big or creative a f…
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Inside the Fight Over Bitcoin’s Future – The New Yorker
A terrific rumpus broke out in the world of Bitcoin last week, when veteran developers Gavin Andresen and Mike Hearn published Bitcoin XT, a competing version of Bitcoin Core, the open-source program that generates new bitcoins, verifies all transac…
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Concept Art Reveals the Gorgeous Castle Doom Almost Had in Fantastic Four
Among the various things that didn’t make it into the most recent attempt to bring Fantastic Four to the big screen was this castle that was supposed to be the home of Doom. Might as well show some work from this movie called Fantastic Four lol.
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Meet Keef @ the National Book Festival in D.C. Sept. 5-7th! Support ye olde Gentleman Cartoonist via Patreon!
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Jeb Bush Struggles to Contain ‘Anchor Baby’ Gaffe | Al Jazeera America
The hullabaloo on the campaign trail erupted last week when Bush, in the course of describing his immigration proposals on a radio show, used the term to refer to children born in the United States to undocumented immigrants.
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I know I’ll lose my job if we go under, but… : AdviceAnimals
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THIS MESS… CLEAN IT UP : StartledCats
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Found a mushroom resembling a ghost : mildlyinteresting
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In the fall of 2009, Jim Chanos began to ask questions about the Chinese economy.
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Online Magazine Searches For The Worst Store Name Puns : NPR
NPR’s Ari Shapiro and Audie Cornish talk to Reyhan Harmanci of the website Atlas Obscura about its reader contest to select the worst businesses that use puns in their names.
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US and Mexico open first new rail link in more than a century | US news | The Guardian
The United States and Mexico on Tuesday opened their first new rail link in more than a century as part of plans to update infrastructure carrying nearly $600bn a year in bilateral trade, officials said.
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Third-grade student playing with gun shoots child at Georgia school | US news | The Guardian
Officials in Georgia say an elementary school student suffered minor injuries after being accidentally shot by a third-grade classmate playing with a gun. The shooting happened Tuesday morning at Hornsby elementary school in Augusta.
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FDA to startup: Your vegan mayonnaise can’t be called mayonnaise | Ars Technica
Hampton Creek Foods, which was founded in 2011, aims to use various plants instead of animal products as substitutes in common foods—such as replacing eggs in pre-packaged cookie dough or mayonnaise.
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WE tv president says reality shows are part of TV’s “golden age” · Newswire · The A.V. Club
In a guest column for The Hollywood Reporter, WE tv President Marc Juris argues that reality TV “shouldn’t be left out” of the conversation about our new golden age of television.
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Formula One is working on a closed cockpit design to keep drivers safer | The Verge
Formula One is going to test a new closed cockpit design, and it could be the blade-like enclosure seen above, according to Motorsport.com. The international racing news website has obtained the image along with information that the tests will begin…
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Russia Sentenced Crimean Filmmaker to 20 Years — So He Sang the Ukrainian Anthem | VICE News
A Russian military court has provoked international outrage by sentencing the Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov to 20 years in a high-security penal colony for supposed terrorism charges.
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Police: tourists took photos of murder suspect moments before pier shooting | US news | The Guardian
Police investigators testified Tuesday that tourists captured photographs of a murder suspect moments before and after he is alleged to have randomly shot to death a young woman on a waterfront pier. Neither photo shown in court clearly showed the s…
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Was Ashley Madison Hacking Its Competitors? | Vanity Fair
Ashley Madison was recently targeted by hackers who dumped a massive trove of potentially life-ruining data from its users, who joined the site to find (and often engage) in extramarital affairs.
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Chicago, see Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, early and for free · Contest · The A.V. Club
You thought there was only one maze to run? Well, you’re wrong: The mazes are back and this time they scorch! Scorch Trials is the second adaptation of the popular YA lit series from James Dashner, which finds a group of teens fighting for survival …
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Though it’s not generally common knowledge, Tracee Ellis Ross is Diana Ross’ daughter. But with Black-ish, Tracee is doing well enough for herself that she isn’t simply known as Diana’s daughter—a pretty big accomplishment since this is Diana Ross w…
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A Tale of Two Stocks: Apple and Coke in China – The New Yorker
When trading closed on Wall Street last week, one Apple share cost just under a hundred and six dollars. When the market opened again, at nine thirty on Monday morning, the price had fallen to less than ninety-five dollars.
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Dormitory by Carlos Grillo / 500px
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Rekt em! : firstworldanarchists
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Photo essay: From Doves above, images of our stunning Earth below – Macleans.ca
Dark green fields stand out against the pale desert floor in Pinal County, Arizona. The region’s farms rely on irrigation, since they receive less than 10 inches of rain a year. Irrigation water comes from two main sources: the Colorado River and aq…
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Devices of Wonder | VQR Online
On any given day in artist Lauren Bon’s Metabolic Studio, a cavernous warehouse on the edge of Chinatown in downtown Los Angeles, you’re as likely to run into a water-rights attorney, a well-connected political fixer, a staffer from a city agency, a…
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Red Petals in the Netherlands by Tashina van Zwam [OC] [5568×3604] : BotanicalPorn
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Miniature Manhattan wrought in Marble (by Yutaka Sone) : interestingasfuck
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That’s how my cats try to minimize my space in bed : cats
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This cat is an explosion of whiskers! : cats
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Sweepy Kitteh via /r/cats http://t.co/ukLmrd9AZ0 http://t.co/skiHtgtIRt
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Let’s say you had the chance to become a vampire. With one magical bite you would gain immortality, superhuman strength and a life of glamorous intensity. Your friends who have undergone the transformation say the experience is incredible.
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Waiting for a bus to the EU border in Serbia – BBC News
Many people are waiting in Belgrade to catch a bus to one of the towns near Serbia’s border with Hungary. From there they hope to cross the border and enter the European Union.
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BBC News – Will China’s economic slowdown solution work?
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Founders Fund, the venture firm co-created by Peter Thiel, is entering yet another surprising area that you don’t commonly see with Silicon Valley VCs. They’re backing a materials sciences company called Modumetal, which is making nanolaminated meta…
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El Chapo’s escape was spurred by concern over extradition, lawyer says | World news | The Guardian
Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman decided it was time to make his spectacular escape from high-security jail last month after learning that the threat of extradition had become imminent, one of his lawyers has said.
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BBC News – Donald Trump renews feud with Fox News host Megyn Kelly
Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has revived his feud with the Fox News channel host Megyn Kelly. Mr Trump said Ms Kelly, who returned to her show on Monday after a break, “must have had a terrible vacation” because “she’s really off…
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Gay Men Face Horrors At The Hands Of The Islamic State, But Few Can Resettle in the US | VICE News
The UN Security Council held its first ever session devoted to discrimination facing the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community on Monday, with a focus on the plight of LGBT individuals in Islamic State controlled territory in Iraq …
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Most Popular Budget HDTV: VIZIO E50-C1 50” Smart LED HDTV
A great HDTV doesn’t have to break the bank. Sure, you could spend thousands on a panel, but $500 can get you a sizable one with great picture quality, solid features, and all the connectivity options you need, while still being thin and trim.
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Gay Men Face Horrors At The Hands Of The Islamic State, And The US Won’t Save Them | VICE News
The UN Security Council held its first ever session devoted to discrimination facing the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community on Monday, with a focus on the plight of LGBT individuals in Islamic State controlled territory in Iraq …
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Hollywood Reboots Keep Using This Lazy Trope and It Makes Their Characters Look Like Idiots
This month Man from UNCLE hit theaters, the latest in a long line of movie adaptations of sixties TV shows. And like so many of these attempts to capitalize on name recognition, the reborn Man from UNCLE chose to tell an origin story. But not just a…
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Women Are Using Social Media as a Megaphone to Confront Nightlife’s Rape Problem | Thump
In late July, two women logged onto Facebook to talk about being assaulted in popular New York City nightspots. Pepper Ellett and Mary,* who are both in their 20s, have never met—but their stories are grim foils for each other, echoing and contrasti…
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The Peter Dinklage Destiny Lines We’ll Miss Most
In just a couple of weeks, Peter Dinklage will no longer be in Destiny. Let’s take a moment to remember him. A couple of weeks ago Bungie announced that Dinklage’s character, Ghost, would be recast for the upcoming Taken King expansion.
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Preparing For The Fed’s Planned Interest Rate Hike : NPR
NPR’S Audie Cornish talks to Megan Greene, managing director and chief economist at Manulife, about how the interest rate hike will affect mortgages, auto and student loans, and consumer behavior.
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Chemical Brothers “Sometimes I Feel So Deserted” on Vimeo
DIRECTOR Ninian Doff PRODUCTION COMPANY Pulse Films PRODUCER Rik Green PRODUCTION MANAGER Max Horn EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Zak Razvi DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Ross Mclennan SERVICE COMPANY Twentyfour Seven SERVICE PRODUCER Ignasi Vargas ART DIRECTOR
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Global Stocks Fail To Rally After Monday’s Slide : NPR
China’s stock market had another rough day as other markets across the world seemed to recover. But the Dow took a late day plunge after another major sell-off.
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How this candy is stacked : oddlysatisfying
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3 years ago today, August 25th – we lost space pioneer Neil Armstrong. : space
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Fishing like a boss : woahdude
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For a while, Gmail data like flight information has been surfaced in Google’s search product. One could imagine that that data would make sense in other places…like Google Calendar. Ding ding!
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CEO and six workers at male escort website arrested on prostitution charges | US news | The Guardian
The chief executive of a Manhattan-based online male escort service and six of his employees at Rentboy.com were arrested Tuesday on charges of promoting prostitution.
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Google Calendar is getting much smarter for business users | The Verge
Google Apps users are going to start having an easier time managing their calendar. With an update rolling out this week, Google Calendar will begin automatically grabbing events that it detects in Gmail — like flights and hotel or restaurant reserv…
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A Conversation With David Hajdu | | Observer
David Hajdu is the music critic for The Nation and the author of several books, including Lush Life, a biography of Billy Strayhorn, and Positively Fourth Street, on the folk movement of the 1960s. Recently, Mr. Hajdu decided to make songs himself r…
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Assad defends presence of Hezbollah fighters in Syria – Al Jazeera English
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has defended the presence of fighters from the Lebanese Shia Hezbollah movement among the ranks of the Syrian army, saying his government had legitimately requested their help.
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No Escape · Film Review · The A.V. Club
Despite its illegible chase scenes, awkward slow-motion shots, and fumbling attempts at political commentary, No Escape manages to be intermittently interesting, thanks to an off-beat supporting turn from Pierce Brosnan and the intrinsic curiosity f…
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Asian Democrats: Jeb Bush Immigration Comments Prove Him ‘Unfit’ | Observer
Queens Congresswoman Grace Meng and California Congresswoman Judy Chu tore into former Florida Gov.
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An Open Letter to the Emmys: Stop Trying to Force TV Into a Box | | Observer
I love TV. I mean, I really, really love it. Today’s breadth of content and platforms on which to watch it has created a space where a little nerd like me can be their own Heisenberg-like god: I do it for me. I liked it. I’m good at it. It makes me …
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Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Court Reporter
Despite all the advancements in speech-to-text software, when it comes to the courtroom, a human touch is required to create a perfect transcript. Court reporters work diligently to maintain very high standards of accuracy in their transcriptions—97…
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What Laibach Learned in North Korea | Rolling Stone
Last week, the avant-garde industrial group Laibach became the first-ever Western rock group to perform in North Korea’s capital, Pyongyang.
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John Cena Returns The Favor, Gives Jon Stewart An Attitude Adjustment – Digg
At SummerSlam, the now-retired Jon Stewart turned heel and hit Cena with a chair rather than attack his current rival Seth Rollins… which is why this happened on WWE Raw Monday.
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Bruce Dickinson Outlines Massive Iron Maiden 2016 Tour | Rolling Stone
Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson will take the helm onstage and in the air next year when the metal outfit embarks on a six-continent world tour, flying in a Boeing 747-400 Jumbo Jet piloted by the singer himself.
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Study Tracks Vast Racial Gap In School Discipline In 13 Southern States : NPR Ed : NPR
For years there has been mounting evidence that U.S. schools suspend and expel African-American students at higher rates than white students. Today, a new study by the University of Pennsylvania singles out 13 southern states where the problem is mo…
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The hungry dystopia of climate change | Grist
With the right “push-pull” planting combos, African farmers can ward off pests, fertilize crops, feed animals, and even withstand drought. Asha de Vos studies how the blue whales of Sri Lanka, threatened by a booming shipping industry, help feed an …
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Inventing the Aerobie and AeroPress
One man invented both the Aerobie Flying Disc and the AeroPress coffee maker. In this short video documentary by David Friedman, inventor Alan Adler tells the story of how those products came to be. I still remember the first time I threw an Aerobie.
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El Salvador Journalists Fear for Their Lives After Accusing Police of a Massacre | VICE News
Not long after a trio of investigative reporters in El Salvador published an explosive investigation about the killing of seven alleged gang members and a bystander by police at a coffee farm, the journalists started receiving death threats.
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Jason Statham likes to punch things (particularly people). He also likes to kick things (also generally people), but for now the focus is merely on Statham’s love for punching.
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Gawker The Fox News Freakout Over Donald Trump’s Misogyny Is Total Horseshit | Jalopnik 100 Miles From Dubai: Driving The $80 Million Road To Nowhere | Kotaku The Peter Dinklage Destiny Lines We’ll Miss Most | Lifehacker Every Carrier’s Confusing Ph…
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BBC Sport – Malmo 2-0 Celtic (agg 4-3)
The Sweden right-back injured a hamstring during last week’s first-leg win in Glasgow. Striker Nadir Ciftci returns to the squad after serving the fifth of a six-game domestic ban on Saturday.
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upd00t now or mr skeltal wil run u ovr (u hv been wrnd) : ledootgeneration
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Glacier near the Arctic coast of Alaska, in ANWR [2000×769] [OC] : EarthPorn
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Is This the Most Incredible Jack Nicholson Dating Story of All Time? | Vanity Fair
Jack Nicholson’s romantic history is the stuff of legend, Hollywood myth, and tell-all memoirs. And on Tuesday, a new tale of the 78-year-old Oscar winner’s unparalleled game surfaced on the Internet.
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Lindsey Graham Frustrated By Trump’s Appeal: ‘I’ll Beat His Brains Out’ | ThinkProgress
In an appearance on CNN, Republican presidential candidate and South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham explained his rival Donald Trump’s appeal among primary voters as something actually bad for the party.
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What major problem will your next phone have? | The Verge
A controversy accompanies the release of every major smartphone. This is true essentially without fail.
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Argentinian police fire tear gas to disperse protests – Al Jazeera English
Riot police in a northern Argentine province have fired tear gas and rubber bullets to break up hundreds of protesters claiming fraud in an election for governor. Local station TN showed police firing on crowds late on Monday in the main square of S…
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John Mayer and The Grateful Dead are going on tour as Dead & Company · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Considering that the Grateful Dead played its final shows ever earlier this summer, this past month has had a surprising amount of news about the band playing more concerts.
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The Preacher TV Show’s Cassidy and Arseface Look Great (Relatively Speaking)
Okay, perhaps “great” isn’t the best adjective for a character who tried to commit suicide by shooting himself in the face with a shotgun, but failed. Perhaps “comics-accurate” is better.
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Donald Trump claims to know nothing about Black Lives Matter
Donald Trump—a man who thinks that owning several now-bankrupt Atlantic City casinos makes him qualified to run the free world—is not exactly a policy guy. He’s not a big ideas guy, either.
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Using Math to Catch Athletes Who Dope – The New Yorker
In the British spa town of Tunbridge Wells, in the seventeen-forties, a Presbyterian clergyman named Thomas Bayes penned a manuscript that would, in the centuries following its posthumous publication, reshape the understanding of probability.
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UN ready to act immediately if S Sudan deal not signed – Al Jazeera English
The UN Security Council has warned that it is ready to “act immediately” if South Sudan’s president does not sign a peace deal with rebels this week.
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Learn Eight Helpful Microsoft Excel Tricks with This Handy Cheat Sheet
If you’re new to using Microsoft Excel, or an experienced user looking for a good visual reference, this handy cheat sheet covers eight helpful tricks for becoming a spreadsheet pro.
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The Case Against Cash Bail – The New Yorker
It’s obvious that jail isn’t good for the jailed. It may be particularly bad for people accused of minor crimes, who are confined not because they are likely to be dangerous but because, under our cash-bail system, they can’t afford to get out.
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How companies make millions off lead-poisoned, poor blacks – The Washington Post
BALTIMORE CITY — The letter arrived in April last year, a mishmash of strange numbers and words. This at first did not alarm Rose. Most letters are that way for her — frustrating puzzles she can’t solve. Rose, who can scarcely read or write, calls h…
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Music Review: ‘Bon Voyage,’ Jazzy Ash : NPR
Kids music artist Ashli Christoval performs as Jazzy Ash. Music reviewer Stefan Shepherd says on her latest album, Bon Voyage, she draws inspiration from her New Orleans roots.
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As Trump Starts To Fundraise, GOP Contenders Hope To Steal The Spotlight : NPR
Donald Trump’s coalition looks like it is here to stay. He’s drawing huge crowds and starting to fundraise. Meanwhile, the former frontrunners are struggling to keep up.
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Following One Migrant’s Journey Across The Sea To Europe : NPR
A quarter million people have crossed the sea to reach Greece this year. NPR follows one of them, a teacher who has left his wife and children in Syria in hopes of finding a better life for them in Europe.
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Is The Stock Market Volatility A Correction Or A Full-Blown Crisis? : NPR
NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks to Gillian Tett, U.S. managing editor for the Financial Times, about the difference between a stock market “correction” or “crisis.”
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Testing Boston Authenticity With ‘Park The Car On Harvard Yard’ : NPR
Boston Globe correspondent Eric Randall traces back the lineage of the phrase “park the car on Harvard Yard.
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You Stink!: Protests Over Beirut’s Garbage Crisis Take Larger Stance : NPR
Protests in the streets of Beirut started over a garbage crisis but have become a larger call for government reform. The movement is growing under the banner “You Stink!.”
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Cattle Theft: An Old Crime On The Rise : The Salt : NPR
Crooks and criminals in America’s farm country are turning to an old crime — cattle rustling. The high price for beef and substance abuse are behind the surge in livestock theft, and that’s putting some ranchers on edge. At Susan Edmondson’s farm ne…
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Thousands Of Homes Destroyed In Gaza War Remain In Ruins : NPR
NPR’s Audie Cornish talks with Katleen Maes, head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Gaza, about the rebuilding of homes destroyed in last year’s war in Gaza.
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Ferguson, Mo., Judge Withdraws Thousands Of Arrest Warrants : NPR
A judge in Ferguson, Mo., has announced he will withdraw thousands of arrest warrants for unpaid traffic violations and other minor offenses. But it may be just a start on reform in St. Louis County and around the country.
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Kentucky State Fair Vendors Divided Over Ban Of Confederate Flag Merchandise : NPR
After the Charleston, S.C, church shootings, Kentucky banned the sale of Confederate flag merchandise at its state fair next year. Vendors are under pressure not to sell it at this year’s fair.
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China’s Financial Capital Tries To Become A Cultural Capital : Parallels : NPR
Inside Shanghai’s cavernous Yuz Museum, there’s a two-story metal box. And inside that box: a fire hose dangling from a chain. Every hour, the hose fills with water and dances about, spraying in a frenzy. For just one minute.
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In The Search For The Perfect Sugar Substitute, Another Candidate Emerges : The Salt : NPR
There’s a new candidate in the century-old quest for perfect, guiltless sweetness. It was right in the middle of the vast exhibition hall, at the Tate & Lyle booth. This is the company that introduced the British Empire to the sugar cube, back in 18…
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Parisians On Hunt For Baguettes As Bakers Get Nod To Take Vacation : The Salt : NPR
In a bid to cut down on bureaucracy, the mayor of Paris has scrapped an arcane law that required bakers to inform city hall anytime they wanted to close up shop.
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Pattern-mixing in the library. [980×1324] : RoomPorn
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Ashley Madison Users Per Capita [751×530] : MapPorn
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Sun Dial by Eamon Gallagher / 500px
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What’s for dinner? Catloaf. : Catloaf
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“Location” by Tatiana Svistunova : ImaginaryLandscapes
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4 State Parties Sign Fund-Raising Pacts With Clinton Campaign http://t.co/H3mUvwWN6K
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Tech Support Startup HelloTech Is Closing $10M In Funding | TechCrunch
Los Angeles startup HelloTech is in the final stages of raising $10 million in Series A funding, according to sources with knowledge of the deal. Madrona Venture Group is leading the round. Following a period of private beta testing, HelloTech went …
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Louisiana townsfolk terror-freak over Hebrew “welcome home” sign – Boing Boing
Several residents of Rapides Parish called the sherriff’s office to report a “terror message” on a sign that actually said “Welcome home, Yamit,” in Hebrew. If you see something, say something.
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The arrest rate for the general US population was nearly twice as high as for NFL players from 2000 to 2013, a new study has found, undermining a perception that football stars are more prone to bad behaviour.
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US stocks fall again as rally runs out of steam – BBC News
The surprise reversal came despite China’s decision earlier to cut its main interest rate to boost growth. It’s the sixth consecutive day of falls for US stocks triggered by fears over China’s slowing economy.
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The Summer Movies Of 2015: What Worked and What Didn’t
Summer movie season is based on the premise that filmmakers know what the public wants. Big production budgets feed into big marketing campaigns feed into blockbuster success—unless they don’t, through some failure of hit-movie theory or practice.
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US girls are more likely to be obese than Canadian ones | The Verge
Though the US and Canada have a lot in common, American children are still more likely to be obese. Between 2009 and 2013, American girls aged seven to 12 were more than twice as likely to be obese compared with Canadian girls, according to a CDC re…
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Former TSMC employee leaked secrets to Samsung, Taiwan Supreme Court says | Ars Technica
The Supreme Court in Taiwan has upheld a ruling that a former employee of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) leaked secrets about the company’s 28nm process technology to Samsung, according to EETimes.
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A 10-year-old boy found safe after more than a day alone in remote eastern Utah backcountry said Tuesday he remembered the survival skills his father taught him and curled up between rocks still warm from the sun to survive the cold mountain night.
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Us Market Gains Wiped Out in Final Hour Trading | Al Jazeera America
In a topsy-turvy day on Wall Street, the U.S. benchmark index dropped rapidly in late afternoon trading, wiping out earlier gains on the back of moves by China to shore up its recent market woes.
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When I wrote The Weather Makers, I laid out the state of climate science as it was understood in 2005. The book received much acclaim, but it was also criticised by climate-change sceptics as extremist and alarmist.
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A Decade Since Katrina Devastated Gulf Coast | Al Jazeera America
President Barack Obama will head to New Orleans on Thursday to mark 10 years since Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast. It was the costliest and most damaging hurricane in U.S. history, killing nearly 2,000 people and leaving thousands of ot…
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Danzig, with his luscious dyed locks and his puffy, pale body, has signed on for an upcoming appearance on Portlandia.
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Catriona Matthew ‘the fierce competitor’ to play in eighth Solheim Cup | Sport | The Guardian
There will be no debutants in the European Solheim Cup team for next month’s defence of the trophy in Germany after the captain, Carin Koch, confirmed her four wildcard picks. Perhaps more pertinently, there will be nine survivors from the team who …
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Are Stories and Histories the Same Thing?
European languages often use the same word for “story” and “history,” but many English speakers regard these words as antonyms. But how different are they really? At The Last Word on Nothing, Ann Finkbeiner asked some practicing PhD historians for t…
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I Went Undercover to Find Out What It Takes to Be an Underpaid NBA Cheerleader
A Clippers Spirit cheerleader named Candace taught us our first dance routine. On all fours, we whipped our hair around. This was my favorite part.
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Here’s Another Way the Recession Screwed Over Black Women | Mother Jones
During the Great Recession, the government laid off a striking number of black women, a new study shows. For a report released Monday, Jennifer Laird, a sociologist at the University of Washington, examined changes in government unemployment before,…
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Under Pressure To Finish TPP, Are They Giving Away More Jobs?
The big multinational corporations behind the still-secret Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) want to push it through Congress before the presidential campaign season risks bringing public scrutiny to the deal.
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Pixar facts! : interestingasfuck
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We’ve all been there. : trippinthroughtime
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Dawn Sends Sharper Scenes from Ceres : space
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Brother Thelonious Crossing Cultural Barriers With Beer : monkslookingatbeer
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Jeff Goldblum and Andy Richter discuss Circumcision – CONAN on TBS : television
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Pixar facts! http://t.co/0sZMIMvCsA http://t.co/r8Hx49WBCv
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This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Testing. Testing. Is This Thing On? | TechCrunch
Not going to lie: I have no idea what this is. My attempted explanation is that we were told that we should do video podcasts, and instead of turning on a webcam like normal people, we decided to record ourselves within the world of Minecraft. Why d…
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Programmer Drives His Tesla Model S A Record-Breaking 452.8 Miles on a Single Charge | TechCrunch
Tesla’s Model S, a “premium performance” sedan with dual-motor all-wheel drive, is advertised as having a 265-mile range, according to the company.
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Platform Cooperativism: a worker-owned Uber for everything – Boing Boing
Nathan Schneider writes, “The seeds are being planted for a new kind of online economy. For all the wonders the Internet brings us, it is dominated by an economics of monopoly, extraction, and surveillance.”
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If you’re going to have a fan convention, why not do it with some style? That’s what Ken Kapalowski and Joe Walser had in mind when they organized “We’re Going Back,” a 30th Anniversary Back To The Future celebration announced for October 21st throu…
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YouTube’s answer to Twitch finally launches tomorrow | The Verge
Just before E3 this year, YouTube announced that it was getting into gaming in a big way, with its own stand-alone video site that would take on Twitch. Called YouTube Gaming, the service was expected to launch some time this summer — and it looks l…
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Queen Of Earth · Film Review · The A.V. Club
In Queen of Earth, writer-director Alex Ross Perry—who does snippy black comedy better than just about anyone else on the current American indie landscape—dials down the humor that has defined his work to this point, and turns up the queasy psycholo…
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Sierra Leone’s last known Ebola patient leaves hospital – Al Jazeera English
Sierra Leone’s last known Ebola patient has been released from hospital, raising hopes the west African nation may finally have beaten the devastating epidemic.
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Who said it: Mr. Burns or Donald Trump? · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
A megalomaniacal uber-wealthy sallow looking man made wealthy by their parents, loaded up with outdated ideas and sycophants, with deadly ambitious designs for greater power. Unfortunately, that description could sum up a lot of people in today’s so…
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YouTube Gaming—Google’s Twitch.tv competitor—launches tomorrow | Ars Technica
One year and one day after Google lost Twitch.tv to Amazon, YouTube Gaming is going public. Starting tomorrow, users can head down to http://gaming.youtube.com (or download the app) to check out the new interface, see who’s streaming, or start a str…
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Serial: Adnan Syed lawyer finds evidence ‘questioning case’ – BBC News
The lawyer of Adnan Syed, the subject of the hit US podcast Serial, has submitted new evidence that he says casts doubt on his client’s case. Justin Brown says key mobile phone data used to convict Syed of killing his ex-girlfriend in 2000 was unrel…
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James Franco will play a ‘tech billionaire’ in a movie with Bryan Cranston | The Verge
Bryan Cranston — goofy dad on Malcom in the Middle and ruthlessly cold dad on Breaking Bad — will play a dad in an upcoming comedy with noted academic James Franco, The Wrap reports. The movie, delightfully titled Why Him?, will star Franco as a “te…
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Firefighters in Washington state were grateful on Tuesday to learn that reinforcements were arriving from Down Under as they kept a wary eye on rising temperatures and winds that threatened to expand what’s already the largest wildfire on record in …
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Joy Behar Returns to The View | Vanity Fair
It’s been a tumultuous summer over at The View. In July, Rosie Perez announced she would be leaving, while frequent guest co-host, and VF.com contributor, Michelle Collins was hired on full-time. Then, earlier this month, Nicolle Wallace announced s…
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Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi Reunite for Nike Tennis Match | Vanity Fair
“You’re gonna bring that shit up?” Pete Sampras said, laughing, when I asked him about his Andre Agassi impersonation-turned-sour at a 2010 charity event. The American tennis icon was in New York last night—along with his longtime rival—to kick off …
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Do Not Stick the Stylus in the Note 5 Backwards. Seriously. | WIRED
A new video from Android Police has been getting publicity after showing how easy it is to break your Samsung Galaxy Note 5 by putting the stylus in backwards. Before we go any further on this issue, we have to emphasize that you should not try this…
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US stock markets continued to seesaw on Tuesday following a day of global sell-offs sparked by fears that China’s economic boom is slowing.
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CNN reports that Julianne Moore has launched an online petition to rename her alma mater. The actress attended J.E.B. Stuart High School in Fairfax County in the ’70s, a school that was named after a Confederate general.
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Aura Turns Gmail Alerts Into OS X Native Notifications
Mac: You can set up notifications for Gmail in a variety of ways, but if you prefer the web app to a desktop app, you can’t easily get native notification support. Aura makes that possible.
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Cops Say They Needed to Kill John Berry — But This Footage May Contradict That | VICE News
VICE News is closely watching policing in America. Check out the Officer Involved blog here.
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Wileyfox Is the Latest Competitor in a Crowded Android Market | Motherboard
Cyanogen has come a long way from when it was just an Android tinkerer’s ROM—now it’s powering devices that are going straight into buyers’ hands. London mobile company Wileyfox is putting two smartphone models on the market soon running Cyanogen OS…
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Cosmetic Ads’ Science Claims Lack Foundation – Scientific American
“Clinically Proven.” “Breakthrough Technology.” “Ten Years of Genetic Research.” These are phrases you might expect to find in the pages of Scientific American. But these descriptions also show up in commercials and print ads for cosmetics.
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Hilton hotels remove pay-per-view porn, because hotels are for sleeping · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Hotel rooms, particularly in their more reasonably priced iterations, have long been considered rarified spaces suitable only for quiet contemplation and deep, dreamless sleep.
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No, Da Vinci Wasn’t The First Inventor to Dream About Human Flight
Leonardo DaVinci’s wing and glider designs have inspired literature, art, and cinema over the centuries. But plenty of other people have schemed to take to the air, long before the Wright Brothers. Here are just some of the inventors who devised met…
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Fall Comics Preview: A Guide to the Awesome New Comics to Add to Your Pull List
Who needs movies and TV this fall when you’ve got so many comics to read? The next few months are shaping up to be a monumental time for comics—at both publishers big and small.
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A.J. Langer—the actress best known for playing Rayanne Graff on My So-Called Life, is now a countess.
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Bryan Cranston is set to co-star with James Franco in the upcoming 21 Laps and 20th Century Fox comedy Why Him? after Franco was informed that he cannot, in fact, play every character in the movie. (He’ll get some practice playing two roles in one p…
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SYDNEY, Australia — Since the nuclear deal with Iran was announced on July 14, Republicans have attacked it with fire-and-brimstone zeal. They have called it everything from appeasement to betrayal.
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Flashback: See Brad Paisley Rededicate the Opry Stage | Rolling Stone
Although the Grand Ole Opry began life in 1925 as the WSM Barn Dance radio show, emanating from the downtown Nashville offices of the National Life and Accident Insurance Company, the show’s increasing popularity necessitated the move to a series of…
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PPP Poll: Sanders bests Clinton in New Hampshire
The ideological divide is actually not that stark on the Democratic side. Sanders is ahead with ‘somewhat liberal’ voters (45/32), ‘very liberal’ ones (46/37), and moderates (40/36) alike. And although there is certainly a gender gap Sanders is ahea…
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Crowd-sourced songwriting. Help us create a melody using the Wisdom of the Crowd.
This is an experiment in crowd-sourced songwriting. A melody is currently being generated, note by note, in real-time, using the popular vote of the crowd. Will the Wisdom of the Crowd create something special?
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Do graphic warning labels keep people from buying cigarettes? — Hopes&Fears — flow “Wellness”
Hopes&Fears talked to several public health advocates.
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Cash In On The Gift That Is Grit | TechCrunch
I’ve watched from the sidelines for years as the debate has played out about race and gender in Silicon Valley, and tech at large.
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Kanye West Will Be This Year’s Beyoncé at the Video Music Awards | Vanity Fair
The Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award—the prize MTV bestows at its Video Music Awards to one particular artist in celebration of his or her entire body of work—is, among other things, a great way for the network to make sure a particular celebrit…
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Thousands of Jains in India Protest for the Right to Fast Until Death | VICE News
Nearly 2,500 members of the Jain religious community rallied on Monday in the northern Indian city of Kanpur to silently protest a recent ban on its practice of Santhara — a ritual fasting to death.
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Philippine Gov’t Invites Former Occupying Military Powers Back to Ward Off China | VICE News
Admiral Harry Harris, commander of the United States Pacific Command, arrived in the Philippines on Tuesday for a three-day visit that highlights broad changes to the Southeast Asian nation’s military strategy.
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National Zoo gives smaller newborn panda twin extra care away from mom | US news | The Guardian
A tiny newborn panda cub is getting extra care at the National Zoo after mom Mei Xiang stopped letting animal keepers swap the smaller cub in for feedings as she cares for the larger twin, the zoo said Tuesday.
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Bush angers Asian Americans while defending ‘anchor babies’ usage – video | US news | The Guardian
Jeb Bush has angered members of the Asian American community after suggesting they were largely to blame for the exploitation of America’s birth rights laws. Bush made the comments on Monday while trying to defend his use of the term ‘anchor babies’.
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YouTube Gaming, Its Twitch Competitor, Set To Launch Tomorrow | TechCrunch
Back in June, YouTube announced that it would be getting into the gaming game and launch its own Twitch competitor called YouTube Gaming. Tomorrow will be that day, we’ve learned. The site sits at https://gaming.youtube.com.
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“Do you want to count shoulders?” : gifs
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Someone at work is PISSED : pics
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Beach day in Scarborough, Maine : FoggyPics
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Green Man festival 2015 – BBC News
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Green Man festival 2015 25 August 2015 Last updated at 19:51 Green Man 2015 attracts a sell-out crowd of 20,000 festivalgoers to the foot of Crug Hywel, at the southern edge of the Black Mountains, in Powys, despite weather conditions best described… -
Google could track potholes to help you avoid them down the road | The Verge
Google has filed a patent for a way to track potholes across the United States, using your car’s GPS navigation system and other sensors to detect damaged portions of a road, put that information into a database, and then use it to determine a less …
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Donald Trump Refuses to Apologize for Controversial Comments—Again – The Atlantic
Donald Trump apologizes to no one. Not even to Roger Ailes. The head of Fox News on Tuesday demanded an apology from the real estate mogul and Republican presidential candidate for his tweetstorm Monday night against Fox News host Megyn Kelly.
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Meet George Jetson! Milky Way Spans Skyway in Futuristic Photo
This new image, taken by photographer Jeff Stamer, spotlights the observation tower at Clingmans Dome, in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The futuristic feature evokes something out of “The Jetsons.” He called this photograph “Tower of Terr…
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Don’t Use Sarcasm In Conversation Until You Trust Each Other
Sarcasm’s a great way to diffuse a negative emotion, but it’s easy to go overboard. The Wall Street Journal suggests you stick to only using sarcasm when you’re close with someone to avoid potential confusion.
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Lebanese cabinet split over Beirut rubbish solution – BBC News
Lebanon’s cabinet has failed to reach an agreement on how to tackle the country’s rubbish crisis, which has sparked violent protests in Beirut. The “You Stink” campaign has been demanding the resignation of the government.
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Ishtar X Tussilago is a short film by Maceo Frost starring Downhill longboard Rider Ishtar Backlund in the epic mountains of Norway. Combined with an epic soundtrack from Swedish rock band Tussilago, the film is a glimpse into the profound feeling o…
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All the Babies You’ll Meet on a Plane – The New Yorker
Everyone knows that there are only a few inflexible truths in life—you are going to die (probably alone); you are going to pay taxes; and, perhaps most important of all, you are going to take lots of plane rides during which you will be seated next …
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How To Sharpen Your Knives The Right Way – Digg
Treat your knives well and they’ll treat you well.
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22,000 Days Without Drinking Water | Narratively | Human stories, boldly told.
It’s almost seven o’clock in the morning. The thermometer does not dare to peek above thirty degrees Fahrenheit but the sun bites every time it manages to find its way through the clouds of the high Andean plateau.
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Take note, parents: The next time you take your kids to the zoo, if you really want to give them the full experience, be sure to tell them that behind all those cages full of depressed super happy animals, zoos have vials upon vials of animal sperm.
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What Can Make a Piece of Gold Turn Blue?
Believe it or not, when you suspend gold in water, it can turn a lilac-blue color. You just need the right amount of salt. And plasmons. See samples of this blue-gold liquid, and learn how a famously warm material can turn cool. Gold is frequently u…
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A chicken sandwich cannot be copyrighted, judge rules | Ars Technica
There are many things you can copyright, but a chicken sandwich is not one of them, a US appeals court judge ruled Friday.
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It was bound to happen. With all of its many references Rick And Morty owe a lot to various properties, from Doctor Who to David Cronenberg, Buck Rogers to countless ’80s sitcoms.
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Turkey PM to form interim government ahead of poll – Al Jazeera English
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has been tasked to form an interim government ahead of new elections that have been officially confirmed for November 1.
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Ashley Madison Hit With $500 Million in Lawsuits | WIRED
At least four lawsuits have been filed in the US against the cheating web site Ashley Madison, each of them battling it out for class-action status. Two were filed this month in California, another one was filed in Texas, and a fourth was filed in J…
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Debra Winger joins Ashton Kutcher’s Netflix series · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Fans of the restaurant backed by dudes from That ’70s Show rejoiced recently, as it was announced Ashton Kutcher and Danny Masterson would be re-teaming for a new Netflix show called The Ranch.
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Los Angeles Clippers fined $250,000 over DeAndre Jordan offer | Sport | The Guardian
The Los Angeles Clippers have been fined $250,000 by the NBA for violating league rules that prevent teams from offering players unauthorized business or investment opportunities.
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Texas court halts planned execution of Nicaraguan man convicted of murder | US news | The Guardian
Texas’ top criminal court on Tuesday stopped the scheduled execution of a Nicaraguan man convicted of killing a Houston high school teacher during a robbery more than 18 years ago. Bernardo Tercero, 39, had been set for lethal injection Wednesday ev…
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How To Kill (Or Save) A Martian – Author Andy Weir Knows! | Video
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This Surprisingly Empowering Retelling of Sleeping Beauty Stars a Hamster Princess
How on Earth do you tell a story about a princess under a Sleeping Beauty-type curse and make her truly heroic? You put her in the hands of Hugo and Nebula Award-winning writer and cartoonist Ursula Vernon, whose new book Hamster Princess: Harriet t…
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It’s not Just Mayo: eggless mayonnaise must change its name, FDA says | Business | The Guardian
As a name, Just Mayo just won’t do. Hampton Creek Foods Inc, a California healthy food startup, can no longer refer to its vegan sandwich spread Just Mayo as mayonnaise because it doesn’t contain eggs, the US Food and Drug Administration has said.
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The internet loves those videos were someone attaches a GoPro to their face and then climbs some stupidly huge building in Dubai or whatever.
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Stack cats on cats on cats with Cat Tower · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Don’t you hate that there isn’t a pile of kittens in front of you right now? Of course you do. Well, say hello to the Kickstarter-backed Cat Tower by IDW Games. It’s a game about carefully balancing cats on cats on cats. Basically, it’s Jenga but wi…
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The original Mad Max: Fury Road mythology was even more feminist · Newswire · The A.V. Club
It turns out men who got mad about the mad women of Mad Max: Fury Road would have had more to get mad about if some of George Miller’s original ideas had made it into the movie (which made a lot of money, despite the best efforts of those mad men).
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What ‘The Hustle’ Looks Like on Etsy in 2015
Pharrell sang his hook 15 years ago on the chorus of Jay Z’s “I Just Wanna Love You”: I’m a hustler, baby, I just want you to know, it ain’t where I’ve been, but where I’m about to go.
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Kylo Ren is not a Sith, but he really digs their style · Newswire · The A.V. Club
There’s been plenty of speculation about who Kylo Ren, one of the new bad guys featured in The Force Awakens, actually is. As he’s been known to do, director J.J. Abrams has been keeping most of the details on the newest entry in the Star Wars saga …
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Another Poll Shows Sanders Beating Clinton | Mother Jones
It’s beginning to look like progressives’ love for Bernie Sanders’ presidential run will be more than a summer fling. On Tuesday, Public Policy Polling released a poll showing the Vermont senator topping presumed front-runner Hillary Clinton in New …
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Slinky Stairs Machine : oddlysatisfying
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Abandoned redbrick buildings being reclaimed by nature [1920×1200] : AbandonedPorn
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How Linux was born, as told by Linus Torvalds himself : technology
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Thanks to you guys, I never have to go on Tumblr! – Imgur
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The Wine Train has reversed course. In a statement released today the Napa Valley Wine Train has apologized for kicking off a group of black women for laughing. After they exited the train, they were greeted by police.
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Samsung’s Gear S2 smartwatch looks really good on Instagram | The Verge
Samsung wants everyone to remember that it has a new smartwatch coming. Over the past two weeks, Samsung has been releasing glimpses (and a fashion shoot) of the Gear S2, and today we’re getting another look at it — one that’s probably a lot more re…
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Ben Carson Blames ‘Straight Outta Compton’ For Black Lives Matter’s Frustrations | ThinkProgress
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson is not a supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement. He has called the group silly and divisive, saying “of course all lives matter” and that focusing on police violence against African Americans is mis…
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The sound of getting hacked is apparently Thunderstruck by AC/DC | The Verge
At a press conference yesterday about the Ashley Madison hack, Toronto police distributed a flyer to the assembled reporters with the lyrics to AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck.
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Facebook ‘Spam King’ pleads guilty after sending more than 27 million messages | The Verge
Sanford Wallace, known as the “Spam King” after charges alleged he sent 27 million fraudulent Facebook messages, has plead guilty to fraud and criminal contempt charges, Bloomberg reports.
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Scientists Used Skin Cells To Create Fetus-Sized Brain | ThinkProgress
In a feat that could possibly trump space-grown lettuce, scientists have cultivated something far more fascinating — a brain.
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Michael Bay’s 451 Media Group Announces Publishing Arm For Interactive Graphic Novels | TechCrunch
The company was first announced this spring with a large investment from China’s Guangdong Alpha Animation.
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Midday open thread: China’s lower carbon emissions; activists pushing for mass Sanders rally in DC
The new study, published in Biological Psychiatry, is the first example that shows how epigenetic changes in humans caused by trauma can be inherited. The study involved 32 Jewish male and female Holocaust survivors, their 22 offspring, and a contro…
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What to Do If You Miss a Birth Control Pill
Birth control pills should be taken every day, at the same time—but how precise do you have to be? It depends on the type of pill: for some, you have a day or two to realize your mistake. For others, you only have a window of a few hours.
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Emails Show Military Investigated Ashley Madison Customer Over Adultery | WIRED
Ashley Madison customers face a host of potential repercussions after hackers stole and leaked their data, from embarrassment to divorce to, in some cases, the loss of a job.
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One small tweak made to Square Enix’s new mobile version of Final Fantasy VII might make it the first Final Fantasy I ever finish. I want to like turn-based role-playing games. I have a soft spot for complicated, unusual storylines and overwrought c…
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Dealmaster: Get a portable car jump starter for $57.99 | Ars Technica
Greetings, Arsians! Courtesy of our partners at TechBargains, the dealmaster is here with a big list of deals for your consideration. The top item today is a RAVPower Car Jump Starter with a 12,000mAh power bank.
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Gravity Falls GIF and a Graf: A Crooked Mayor | WIRED
Nobody watches Gravity Falls expecting to see a cutting political satire. And yet last night’s “Stanchurian Candidate” ended up being a fun romp about local politics.
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For years, liberals have decried the conservative theology of the Roman Catholic hierarchy, lamenting U.S. bishops’ efforts to push back against LGBT equality, for example. But a new study illustrates a widening ideological gulf between Catholic lea…
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World championships: four days in, where are the American medals? | Sport | The Guardian
Bershawn Jackson gave an honest assessment after his 400m hurdle heat: “It felt bad from the beginning.” He could have been describing the American track team’s performance at the 2015 world championships.
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MSF says it treated Syrians ‘exposed to chemical agent’ – Al Jazeera English
An international medical organisation has said its doctors treated four patients last week in the Syrian city of Aleppo who were exhibiting symptoms of exposure to chemical agents.
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Meet the crayfish species named after NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden | Ars Technica
He may not receive a pardon any time soon, but NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden now has a namesake in the animal kingdom. This week, an Indonesian crayfish species has been named after the man who helped inform the public about mass US government su…
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How Trump Continues To Lead The Polls – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Recent polls indicate that, despite public outcry against his incendiary comments on women and minorities, Donald Trump is still the leading Republican candidate.
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Kenny Rogers Duets With Krauss, Nettles on New Christmas Album | Rolling Stone
For more than thirty years, Kenny Rogers has spent his winters on the road, singing a mix of carols, originals and holiday-friendly staples during his annual Christmas & Hits tour.
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Pioneering surgery gives man world’s first ‘bionic’ penis
When Edinburgh, Scotland resident Mohammed Abad was six years old, he was involved in a horrific car accident. He was struck by a vehicle and then dragged nearly 600 feet (180 meters), tearing his tallywhacker (and left testicle) clean off.
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How Will Tokyo’s Artificial Meteor Shower Work? | Inverse
The 2020 Olympic games in Tokyo are already contentious: Complaints about poorly planned stadiums and Japan’s struggles with the national debt](http://thediplomat.com/2013/09/will-the-2020-olympics-really-help-tokyo/) have deflated the pomp of the m…
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Podcast: The FiveThirtyEight Crash Course In Pitching Stats | FiveThirtyEight
Welcome to this week’s episode of Hot Takedown, our podcast where the hot sports takes of the week meet the numbers that prove them right or tear them down. On this week’s show (Aug.
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Slower Smartphone Growth Expected In 2015 As China’s Market Matures | TechCrunch
Analysts at IDC have lowered their projections about how much they expect the smartphone market to grow in 2015. Earlier this year, IDC said shipments would grow at 11.3 percent year-over-year, but today’s report says that figure is being revised to…
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Justin Wilson: motor sport pays tribute after driver’s death in IndyCar race | Sport | The Guardian
Stars from the world of motor sport have paid tribute to Justin Wilson, the British IndyCar driver who died on Monday after suffering serious injuries in a race in the US at the weekend.
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Facebook’s Moments app will automatically create music videos out of your photos | The Verge
Make a Movie with Moments- Nolan’s Summer from Facebook on Vimeo. Facebook’s photo sharing app Moments, which launched in June, today added a video feature. With this update, Moments will automatically create a photo montage, complete with music, us…
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Apple’s professional-level music creation tool, Logic Pro X, just received a major update today (10.
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Donald Trump Burns Bridges with Fox News After Tweeting Bad Thing Abou | Vanity Fair
The Roger Ailes-Donald Trump ceasefire died a gruesome death late on Monday night, when Trump began re-tweeting his followers’ criticisms of Megyn Kelly, an Ailes protégé and Fox News anchor.
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Three dead in shootout in Roma camp in France – BBC News
At least three people have been killed and four injured in a shootout at a Roma camp in north-eastern France, police say. French media quoted Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve as saying a six-month-old baby was among those killed.
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Office 2016 for Windows coming on September 22 | Ars Technica
Office 2016 for Mac is already available to Office 365 subscribers. When that was launched in July, Microsoft said that regular retail copies would be released in September. While we’re not certain, it seems likely that September 22 will be the rele…
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Paul McCartney adds 5 fall dates in places where you probably don’t live · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Paul McCartney has added five more dates to the never-ending tour that is his life, announcing October stops in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, New York state, and Canada.
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View From Magnolia – Seattle, USA [1024 x 619] [OC] : CityPorn
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My steak looks like America. : mildlyinteresting
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C&O Canal – Potomac, USA [1024 x 683] [OC] : waterporn
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Salad Seems Really Virtuous, Right? It’s Not. | Mother Jones
Nothing quite promises dietary virtue like the wall of boxed salad greens you’ll find in a typical supermarket produce section: plump little plastic clamshells, often adorned with words like “superfood,” or “antioxidants,” stuffed with pre-cut, chlo…
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Curt Schilling’s Bad Tweet Got Him Taken Off Little League World Series Duty
ESPN comment on Schilling: Curt’s tweet was completely unacceptable, and in no way represents our company’s perspective. We made that point very strongly to Curt and have removed him from his current Little League assignment pending further consider…
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One of these images is of Europa, Jupiter’s icy moon, and the other eight are frying pans. Can you pick Europa out? Hint: frying pans tend not to have impact craters.
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The Best Jobs Now Require You To Be A People Person | FiveThirtyEight
Are you good at math? A computer whiz? Well, great! Presumably your “hard skills” are a surefire ticket to a high-paying job. Well, maybe that used to be the case. But it’s not necessarily so anymore.
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13,000 L.A. County Residents Homeless Every Month | Al Jazeera America
LOS ANGELES – Chronic homelessness is such a daunting problem in Los Angeles County that even after 10,000 people were moved into housing in the last three years, about 13,000 people on public assistance slip into homelessness every month, a new stu…
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Fox chief asks Trump to apologize for ‘verbal assaults’ on Megyn Kelly | US news | The Guardian
A detente between two of the most powerful forces in Republican politics – Fox News and Donald Trump – appeared in danger of disintegration Tuesday, with Fox chief Roger Ailes issuing a public statement calling on Trump to apologize for “verbal assa…
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Upgrading my Kindle Voyage to use the Bookerly font – Boing Boing
It is no secret that I absolutely love my Kindle Voyage. Upgrading to the much anticipated Bookerly font was a pain. In theory, it should be absolutely no issue to upgrade Amazon’s top of the line, glass screened Kindle Voyage to use the latest firm…
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‘Lonely Mountain’ on Dwarf Planet Ceres Shines in Jaw-Dropping Photos
A “lonely mountain” stands unaccompanied on the icy gray surface of the dwarf planet Ceres, in amazing new photographs from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft. The mountain, with an altitude of 21,120 feet (6,437 meters), is one of many gorgeous features captur…
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Feds’ cyberbullying reverses cops’ convictions for shooting unarmed people | Ars Technica
In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina back in 2005, five former New Orleans police officers were sentenced to six to 65 years in prison in connection to on-the-job deadly shootings of unarmed civilians.
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The creator of UnREAL is developing a restaurant soap for Fox · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Marti Noxon, creator of Girlfriend’s Guide To Divorce and UnREAL, is developing a series about the New York City restaurant business for Fox, Variety reports.
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Facebook Now Creates Videos Based on Your Moments | WIRED
Back in June, Facebook introduced us to its Moments app, an A.I.-infused service that helped friends easily share photos they took together or at the same event. It’s an antidote to all the “hey text/email/message me that picture” nonsense that typi…
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How a Retro Camcorder App Became a Huge iPhone Hit | WIRED
Thomas Worth swears he didn’t expect any of this. He never expected that, 10 days after it launchd, VHS Camcorder, his goofy $3.99 video app, would be No. 2 on Apple’s chart for paid apps, second only to Minecraft. Or the torrent of email, tweets, a…
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Climate Change Is Set To Drive Up Visits To The Emergency Room | ThinkProgress
People of all ages — not just the elderly — are more at risk of death and emergency room visits as the earth warms, a recent study has found.
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WaterPuff – portable instant waterpipe – Boing Boing
While some ‘fropheads swear by vaporizers to imbibe their sacramental habifropzipulops mariphasa lupina, I don’t like them. I think they are inefficient, don’t vaporize the full psychoactive spectrum of active compounds in ‘frop, and don’t smell goo…
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This week, 10.1 million people watched the premiere of AMC’s new series, Fear the Walking Dead.
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DJ Molles closes out The Remaining series – Boing Boing
I’m half way through DJ Molle’s recently released, final book in The Remaining series, Extinction. This post-zombie America adventure captures the genre perfectly! I have loved this series. DJ Molles has told a fantastic tale of post-Zombie America.
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Fox Searchlight is making a true story that sounds a lot like Up · Newswire · The A.V. Club
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Fox Searchlight has picked up an untitled project telling the true story of an elderly woman who refused to sell her Seattle home even as a mall was built around it, a story with obvious similarities to Pixar’s U…
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US west coast wildfires in 60 seconds – BBC News
Wildfires are still burning across the west coast of the United States, and authorities are struggling to deal with them. They are particularly bad in Washington state which is experiencing the largest fire in its history.
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In a new and surprisingly interesting video interview for the New York Times, the unlikely trio of Skrillex, Justin Bieber, and Diplo come together to explain how they made a hit song together.
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FDA Warns Eggless Mayo Producer About Labeling – The Atlantic
What’s in a name? That which we call mayonnaise by any other name would taste as real. Not true, says the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The regulatory agency recently sent a warning letter to the makers of Just Mayo, a vegan mayonnaise spread.
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How Linux was born, as told by Linus Torvalds himself | Ars Technica
I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. Many people have read that post by Linus Torvalds in the comp.os.mini…
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Cabinet members storm out of Lebanon trash-crisis talks – Al Jazeera English
Six ministers of the Hezbollah group and its allies have walked out of a Lebanese cabinet meeting that had been called to discuss the country’s worsening rubbish collection crisis, reflecting the government’s lingering dysfunction despite mass prote…
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The 50th anniversary of the word ‘hypertext’ – Boing Boing
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Carbon-Credits Scheme Linked to Increased Production of Greenhouse Gases – Scientific American
Factories in Russia increased their production of industrial waste products and then claimed millions of carbon credits for destroying them after an international trading scheme went into effect.
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Millipede Genitals, Now in Glorious 3-D! | WIRED
It’s blue, its name is “avatar,” and it’s virtual. But it’s not a 10-foot-tall humanoid alien; it’s a new millipede species, and the first to be a “cybertype.
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Learn the New Precision Touchpad Gestures for Windows 10
If you have a precision touchpad on your laptop, you also have a few new gestures you can use in Windows 10. Precision touchpads are a new kind of touchpad introduced with some Windows 8 laptops. They’re supposed to be more accurate and sensitive an…
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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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Single, Unemployed Mother Leeching Off Government – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
WASHINGTON—Taking advantage of the system and giving nothing back in return, local unemployed, single mother Mei Xiang reportedly gave birth to two more children out of wedlock this week and continued to pathetically leech off the government.
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There are many locations that Prince would like to “Jack U Off” · 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.
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How Extreme Weather Melted Some of Hollywood’s Winter Shoots | Vanity Fair
While filming the first season of FX’s Fargo in Calgary in 2013, it was so cold—a reported negative-35 degrees with wind chill—that stars Billy Bob Thornton and Martin Freeman risked frostbite if their skin was exposed for more than 10 minutes.
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Free Apple Logic Pro 10.2 update brings back famed Alchemy synth | Ars Technica
When it emerged that UK-based Camel Audio—a highly respected developer of professional audio plugins—was acquired by Apple earlier this year, many wondered what the fate of its flagship Alchemy synthesizer would be.
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New Orleans, 10 Years After Katrina – The Atlantic
A decade ago, Hurricane Katrina triggered floods that inundated New Orleans. More than 1,800 people were killed as storm waters overwhelmed levees and broke through flood walls on August 29, 2005.
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The Civilian Toll From the War Against ISIS Is Huge. Why Isn’t the Press Covering It? | The Nation
Eight months ago, on December 28, a warplane from the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State, or ISIS, struck a building in the Syrian town of al-Bab that had been identified as a local headquarters for the militant group.
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Apple updates Logic Pro with the last synthesizer you’ll ever need | The Verge
Apple’s professional music-creation app Logic Pro X has just received a big upgrade, and with it is one of the most ambitious software instruments the company has ever released. The highlight feature of Logic 10.
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Bixby Bridge, Big Sur, CA [5427×3648] : ExposurePorn
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The end of the Multnomah Falls main trail (Oregon) [4128×2322] [OC] : EarthPorn
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In San Francisco, Uber recently began testing what it calls “Smart Routes,” TechCrunch reports: Rather than hailing an Uber directly to your door, UberPool’s map shows a green line overlaid on a major artery street nearby.
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These elected officials eat hemp to make a point | Grist
Last week in Colorado, The Man gave the finger to The Man. Reps. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) shared an illegal meal at Denver’s Jezebel restaurant. On the menu? Raw milk, hemp scones, kombucha, and non-USDA-inspected steak and eg…
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Amy Klobuchar Wrote The “Lean In” of Political Memoirs | The New Republic
This month, Sheryl Sandberg gave her stamp of approval to two memoirs written by female politicians: blurbing both Plenty Ladylike by Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri, and The Senator Next Door by Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar.
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When the Big One hits, here’s some of the gear you’re going to need | Grist
Q. I want to buy some ready-made emergency kits for my home and car (so that I can be prepared for the Big One that everyone is talking about so much), but I want to avoid gross chemical-laden emergency “meals” and off-gassing PVC ponchos.
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Stories from Our Advertisers Among the trove of emails released from Hillary Rodham Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state was this instruction to a trusted aide who needed to brief her on a matter that could not wait:“Just knock on the door to the …
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Lunar eclipse on the Lake Tahoe shore : Breathless
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I finally got a picture of her waving at me! This is how my Potato greets me. : cats
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jellyfish by Maurizio Cicoria / 500px
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Alakai Swamp Trail (Kauai) : FoggyPics
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Was my birthday recently… here’s some fox cake! : foxes
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10 K9 KO’s via /r/gifs http://t.co/YyBq6nBAiu http://t.co/koS98SVQRQ
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Great Basin Desert, Nye County, Nevada [2048×1536] [OC] : AbandonedPorn
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The Horsehead Nebula from Blue to Infrared js – Just Space
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Brother Basileios Brings God’s Bounty By The Bunch : monkslookingatbeer
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Sinopah Reflected by CJ Stead / 500px
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Starbucks Is About To Unleash 3,000 Wine Bars On America. We Tried One. | VinePair
This past Wednesday, a Starbucks in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, attempted to slide into the borough’s cool kids club with their new program. After 4 p.m., along with the usual coffee menu, they now offer a separate “evening” menu accompanied by a wine l…
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Yes, climate change has a hand in the California drought | Ars Technica
The California drought may have put water in short supply, but debate about it is in surplus. Water use has come under even greater scrutiny as Californians struggle to deal with the current and future reality.
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Dozens of high-profile Iranians, many of whom have been jailed for their political views, launched a video campaign calling on the American people to lobby Congress not to jeopardise the landmark nuclear agreement.
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Refusing to bow to airport liquids ban, woman drinks bottle of cognac – Boing Boing
Even in freedom’s cradle, China, airport security hates a good time. They don’t tell us how large the bottle was, but the story is good. That created a new security problem though, and it had to do with the bottle of cognac that was now inside her.
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Asylum Seekers Stuck in Limbo After Release From Israel’s Desert Detention Center | VICE News
Israel began releasing more than 1,000 asylum seekers from the Holot detention center in the Negev desert on Tuesday morning, two weeks after the country’s Supreme Court ruled that inmates could not be held in the facility for more than 12 months.
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Houzz Acquires Home And Gardening Community Site GardenWeb From NBCUniversal | TechCrunch
After a number of big fundraising rounds over the last few years, Houzz has now made its first acquisition. The company today announced that it has acquired GardenWeb, a garden and home community site, from NBCUniversal for an undisclosed amount.
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Why are these Ebola workers dancing? – BBC News
Why are these Ebola workers dancing? 25 August 2015 Last updated at 18:42 BST Why are Ebola workers in Makeni, Sierra Leone, having a song and dance?BBC News explains, in one minute.
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Teenage Suicide Bomber in Northeastern Nigeria Kills at least Six | VICE News
At least six people died and more than 40 were injured in Nigeria Tuesday morning after a 14-year-old girl blew herself up at a bus station in the northeastern city of Damaturu, adding to the growing tally of people killed in the country in the thre…
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These Are the Shapes of an Inhabited Earth
Conner Griffith combined images from Google Earth, Wikipedia, the Rhode Island School of Design’s Picture and Materials collections, and his own photography to create “Ripple,” a concise, top-down view of the shapes we use to organize the world. Con…
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Boston Marathon bombing: juror speaks publicly about death penalty decision | US news | The Guardian
A juror in the trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev says he probably would not have voted for the death penalty had he known that the families of some victims preferred a life sentence.
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Gold King mine spill threatens crops of Navajo Nation farmers – video | Environment | The Guardian
In August, the Environmental Protection Agency accidentally unleashed 3m gallons of contaminated wastewater while inspecting the idled Gold King Mine near Silverton, Colorado.
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Google Map Maker is now online again in over 50 countries | The Verge
Google continues to reopen Map Maker, bringing it back to 45 countries today including the US. Map Maker was shut down in May after a series of embarrassing user edits began showing up on the public Google Maps.
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Ghanaian man ‘joins Islamic State’ militants – BBC News
A 25-year-old man from Ghana is feared to have left the West African country to join the Islamic State (IS) group, his father says.It is the first reported case of a Ghanaian joining IS. Abdul Latif Alema told the BBC that his son’s disappearance wa…
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My week on board a refugee rescue boat – Al Jazeera English
I’m on a little old boat somewhere off the Libyan shore, and it’s one o’clock in the morning. The wind has picked up, and the waves are getting bigger and bigger. The captain tells us it’s no longer safe to stand on the deck, and so we retreat to ou…
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The Best Mindfulness Apps, Ranked in One Chart
A growing body of research reveals that practicing mindfulness offers a number of benefits. With at least 700 mobile apps that claim to help you be more mindful, picking one isn’t easy. A new study, however, sorted through hundreds of mindfulness ap…
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Supercut: All the People That Batman Has Killed Throughout His Movie Career
One of Batman’s most recognizable features beyond his costume, gadgets, and awesome cars is his first rule of crimefighting: No Killing. But as this supercut shows, the Dark Knight’s movie incarnations certainly don’t mind breaking that rule every o…
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How That Spinning Spacecraft From The Martian Would Work | WIRED
In The Martian movie, astronauts travel to Mars in a large spacecraft called Hermes (also in the novel version). Since the trip to Mars will take a while, the humans need a nice way to stay in shape.
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Appalachia’s Coal Industry is Collapsing—But the Mountains Aren’t Coming Back – In These Times
This post first appeared at TomDispatch.com. In Appalachia, explosions have leveled the mountain tops into perfect race tracks for Ryan Hensley’s all-terrain vehicle (ATV).
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Syria conflict: New ‘IS chemical attack’ – BBC News
Islamic State (IS) militants may have used chemical weapons in an attack on a town in northern Syria on Friday.
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has built his presidential campaign around defending “religious liberty.” This weekend, he hosted a “Rally for Religious Liberty,” which highlighted the many stories of wedding vendors who have faced legal consequences for refus…
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Photo book shows Eames’ beautiful details – Boing Boing
One of my favorite speakers at San Mateo Maker Faire this year was Llisa Demetrios, granddaughter of Charles Eames. Her talk included very personal remembrances of times with her grandfather and with his wife Ray Eames.
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TuneIn Launches TuneIn Premium With Ad-Free Radio, Audiobooks, MLB Games | TechCrunch
Popular radio service and app TuneIn just launched a new subscription service. For $7.99 per month, TuneIn Premium subscribers get a bunch of new premium content as well as a nifty ad-free feature.
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Public Morals · Season 1 · TV Review · The A.V. Club
Edward Burns made his bones as part of the indie-film boom of the 1990s, when his feature debut The Brothers McMullen proved a scrappy, low-budget romantic comedy could be just as cliché-ridden as any glossy Hollywood product.
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Watch profile of Alan Adler, inventor of the Aeropress coffee maker – Boing Boing
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Despite working in a multitude of genres, with different directors of photography and editors, there still are some tell-tale elements of the Coen Brothers’ style.
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As progressive American municipalities roll out a $15 hourly minimum wage, one result has been a renewed debate over the practice of tipping service workers.
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BBC Sport – Vuelta a Espana: Valverde wins as Chris Froome finishes in peloton
Movistar’s Alejandro Valverde won stage four of the Vuelta a Espana after a well-judged sprint on the punishing final climb into Vejer de la Frontera. Team Sky rider Nicolas Roche led over the final metres of the 209.
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Hortonworks Acquires Onyara, Early Startup With Roots In NSA | TechCrunch
Hortonworks, the big data company built on Hadoop, bought early-stage startup Onyara today. The company, which launched at the end of last year, has its roots in the NSA — yes that NSA.
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Lawmakers in the 48-member Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) are “strongly condemning” former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) for ascribing his use of the pejorative term “anchor babies” to Asian immigrants.
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Ashley Madison facing another class action suit | The Verge
An anonymous Ashley Madison user has filed a potential class action lawsuit against parent company Avid Life Media, alleging that the company failed to take “necessary and reasonable precautions” to prevent hackers from breaching the company’s files…
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When it hosts the National Football League’s championship game in February, San Francisco will invite locals and tourists alike to congregate, dine, and play games at a pop-up complex called Super Bowl City. Homeless people need not RSVP, though.
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Why We Keep Loving Zac Efron, No Matter How Many Times He Fails | Vanity Fair
Zac Efron’s career path is inscrutable.
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Butter In Your Coffee and Other Cons: Stories From a Fitness Insider
Three years after co-founding Fitocracy, we launched a new online coaching service to start bringing in money. We needed a way to hook people in, but no one seemed interested. It didn’t make sense.
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Slack’s true power is being a platform. A platform that other tools can plug into and play nice with. The company says there are 80+ of these types of integrations and thousands of developers hacking away at adding more.
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You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine and Our Obsession with Beauty Routin | Vanity Fair
The title of Alexandra Kleeman’s debut novel, out this week, feels like it should be punctuated with about a hundred exclamation points: You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine.
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How the Standard for Gender Equality in Culture Became Known as the ‘Bechdel Test’ – The Atlantic
The test is a blunt, basic measure of gender equality in a given film/show/book/etc. It revels in its own absurd simplicity. And it is often—still, ridiculously—not passed by Hollywood movies. It’s often failed in other settings, too. As the A.V.
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We Want Your Culture Stories: A Call for Pitches – The Atlantic
“All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!”—Camille Paglia The best Atlantic culture pieces examine questions people have long had but never qu…
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The Wild, Remarkable Sex Scenes of Lidia Yuknavitch – The New Yorker
Halfway through Lidia Yuknavitch’s “The Small Backs of Children,” a man we know only as “the painter” enters his studio. He feels trapped in his life and his marriage, desperate to escape what he calls “the devouring wife love hole.
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Celebrating the Shoes, Car Parts, and Other Random Objects in Great Art | Vanity Fair
Every week in the Culture List, Vanity Fair editors present a ruthlessly curated selection of parties, art openings, exhibits, and mustn’t-miss events. This week includes a random objects at the MoMA, an upcoming Annie Leibovitz exhibit, and the eve…
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Urmelrock by Esther Eberl : ImaginaryLandscapes
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August Sunset in Vermont (OC) [2048×1367] : waterporn
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Just changed my exercise routine : AdviceAnimals
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Barnards E Dark Nebula js – Just Space
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Hot glass spiral via /r/woahdude http://t.co/9Et539mgxv http://t.co/3JyJmXGwqc
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Last Man on Earth Set Visit Offers Glimpses of Season Two : television
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Is this not how it is done brothers? : monkslookingatbeer
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Vernazza by Sus Bogaerts / 500px
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Graffiti removal guy comes back to discover image of himself : pics
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‘dis hand is mine now’ via /r/aww http://t.co/8tC7AGr3oK http://t.co/OVoAxkzKuL
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Why the Wingdings font exists – Vox
Wingdings is the font made entirely out of symbols. But why? It seems as bizarre as it is ubiquitous.
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Baby born from grandmother’s donated womb | Society | The Guardian
The Swedish mother, who lost her uterus to cancer in her 20s, said it was “unimaginable” that she now had her own child thanks to her mother’s donated womb.
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Time to Kill the Death Penalty
In February 2015, the governor of Pennsylvania issued a moratorium on executions. In May, Nebraska became the 19th state, and the seventh state since 2007, to abolish the death penalty.
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How Homeowners on the Jersey Shore Make Their Houses Hurricane-Ready | The New Republic
Three years ago, Hurricane Sandy landed on the Eastern Seaboard, sending seawaters surging, destroying homes and businesses, and leaving behind 8.
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Delete Yourself | The New Republic
If there’s one thing hackers hate, it’s reductive Hollywood portrayals of their profession. The characters in Mr. Robot, an anxiety-inducing techno-thriller airing on USA Network this summer, are no different.
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Coming Sept. 24: A Special Longreads Live Storytelling Night in New York City : Longreads Blog
Save the date! On Sept. 24, Longreads is presenting a night of live storytelling with the theme of “Change: stories about change and the stories that have changed us.” Our storytellers include: Thursday, Sept. 24, 7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
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Is the world ready for a disc-free game console? | Ars Technica
Over the weekend, news started trickling out about a recently published game console patent filed by Nintendo back in February. That’s not that surprising—we’ve known for a while that the company is working on a new console project codenamed “NX.
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Few American voters may yet have heard of Jeremy Corbyn, the previously obscure British parliamentarian who is set to become leader of the official Labour opposition to David Cameron’s government.
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Popular Hawaii beach shuts due to sewage spills – BBC News
Heavy rains triggering massive sewage spills have closed Hawaii’s most popular beach and tourist destination. Waikiki Beach closed on Monday after heavy rains caused by a tropical storm set off the spills.
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That Justin Wilson was aware of the dangers involved in motor racing does not make his death any easier to cope with.
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This Band Is Trying To Redefine ‘Jihad’ | ThinkProgress
Within the American lexicon, the Arabic word ‘jihad’ is often used in a negative context to mean ‘Islamic holy war.’ While the notion that jihad means holy war is absolutely correct, it is just one of many possible translations – including some that…
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Direct Action Saving the Lives of Migrants (Excerpt from ‘The Smartest Guy in the Sea’) | VICE News
More than 2,000 migrants have drowned while attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea already in 2015, according to the International Organization for Migration. As the Mediterranean migrant crisis continues in the face of apparent government inacti…
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Sony tests ‘superfast’ commercial drone – BBC News
Footage of a prototype superfast drone being developed by Sony has been posted online. The firm says it can reach a top speed of 106mph (170km/h), more than twice as fast as other commercial drones.
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Voting Begins for the 2015 Emmys — VICE News Nominated For 4 Awards | VICE News
Voting has begun for the 36th annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards, and VICE News’ Russian Roulette, Last Chance High, and The Architect are all in the running for the premiere prize for American television excellence.
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Watch this street vendor make ice cream in Thailand – Boing Boing
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Support this programmable smart watch kit developed by 8-year-old – Boing Boing
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Man explains why he likes using Ashley Madison – Boing Boing
David, a 43-year-old Californian, told Kristen V. Brown of Fusion why he has been a happy Ashley Madison member for nearly a decade. He signed up, he says, because his wife wasn’t interested in having sex with him. The dark side of sites like Ashley…
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Cris Carter: The Fall Guy | The Nation
Speaking to a room of rookie NFL players in 2014, NFL Hall of Famer and ESPN broadcaster Cris Carter said that these young men needed to make sure they had “a fall guy in their crew”: someone to take the blame if you have run afoul of the law.
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China market slump: Get to know your finance jargon – BBC News
What’s a ‘bear market’? Or a ‘currency devaluation’? The BBC explains some of the words being used to describe the recent stock market turmoil.
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Kale crisis: aphids could destroy the superfood-smoothie revolution| Life and style | The Guardian
Age: At least 2,400 years old. Appearance: Curly, green and, for the past few years, ubiquitous.
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What It Looks Like to Use the Internet for the First Time | Motherboard
It’s easy to know when you’ve encountered a wifi hotspot in Cuba, if only because they’re the only places that feel even remotely like you’re walking through an American city.
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Paid Parental Leave Is Fueling Sweden’s Start-Up Boom | The New Republic
Each week, Sweden’s national Twitter account allows a different Swede to take over tweeting and tell his or her story. Last week it was Louise Samet, a new mom and an employee of Swedish e-commerce giant Klarna.
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Meeting the British and European Fighters at War in Ukraine | VICE | United Kingdom
There are European soldiers fighting amid the rubble of Shyrokyne in Eastern Ukraine. They shoot from half-destroyed hotels and sleep in the basements of war-ravaged homes. Artillery fire colours the hill behind the town black, and darkens the sky w…
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Hong Kong skyline [810×540] : CityPorn
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Iceland by Arnaud MAUPETIT / 500px
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Subaru’s timeline of helping National Parks become zero-landfill : InternetIsBeautiful
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Wilmette, Ill. — TEN months after graduation, only 60 percent of the law school class of 2014 had found full-time long-term jobs that required them to pass the bar exam.
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ReplayShareTweetPopcast: ‘Where Are Ü Now’Inside the Kronos QuartetConnecting Music and Gesture
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It’s usually quite difficult to translate an artist’s work into a different medium. Adaptations from page to screen or from canvas to music pose infinite problems and places where it’s hard to capture the soul of the original work and present it in …
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Last Sumatran rhino in the US to be sent to Indonesia to mate | Environment | The Guardian
An Ohio zoo that has the last Sumatran rhino in the US on Tuesday announced plans to send the endangered species to south-east Asia on a mission to mate.
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Samsung on Galaxy Note 5’s broken stylus slot: read the manual | The Verge
This year’s Galaxy Note 5 is an outstanding device — combining power with grace, and utility with handsome looks — but it also has a pretty major design flaw.
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Trump supporters in Alabama give reasons why they’ll vote for him – Boing Boing
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Facebook’s New Moments App Now Automatically Creates Music Videos From Your Photos | TechCrunch
Facebook Moments, the social network’s recently launched photo-sharing app which aims to address the problem of getting friends to send each other the photos they’ve been hoarding on their own phones, is expanding to video.
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The Apple Watch will be available at all Best Buy locations next month | The Verge
Apple’s three-month exclusive on sales of the Apple Watch is over, so the device is finding its way onto the virtual and physical store shelves of a few new retailers.
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Sony’s New Aerosense Drone Is a Noisy, Tiny Jet Plane | Motherboard
Sony is getting its feet wet in the drone space through its newly-formed Aerosense company, the product of a joint venture with Japanese startup ZMP. Just yesterday, its first jet-like drone prototype has taken flight.
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Dip Tomatoes in Warm Water Before Chilling to Make Them Taste Better
Storing tomatoes in the fridge could keep them from spoiling faster, but depending on the quality of the tomato and how ripe it is, the tomatoes could suffer (in flavor, texture, and color) from refrigeration.
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Researchers Studied New Yorker Cartoons to See What Rich People Think About Kids | Motherboard
There’s a sort of hipsterfication going on with parenthood: Fewer people are doing it, but the people who get into it get way into it. It’s sort of like craft beer, and just like craft beer, these trends are more pronounced among the affluent and th…
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China cuts interest rates in latest bid to spur economy – Al Jazeera English
China has cut interest rates for a fifth time in nine months in a new bid to shore up slowing economic growth, amid a further sharp drop of its stock market. The central bank announced on Tuesday that the benchmark rate for a one-year loan will be…
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The Air Force Wants You to Trust Robots. Should You? – Scientific American
A British fighter jet was returning to its base in Kuwait after a mission on the third day of the 2003 Iraq War when a U.S. anti-missile system spotted it, identified it as an enemy missile, and fired. The two men in the plane were both killed.
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Charge your phone while pedaling your bike – Boing Boing
When I was young, I had a clunky, inefficient dynamo attached to my bike that powered the headlight when I pedaled. The Siva Atom works the same way but it converts your pedaling into power to charge USB devices and the removable 1650mAh battery pac…
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The Cast and Crew of Ghostbusters Cheerfully Invite Haters to Suck It
Contact the author at rob@io9.com.
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Outlander begins the search for its Brianna · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The premiere date has yet to be set for Outlander’s second season, but a recent casting call gives some insight into exactly where that season will go. (If you haven’t read the Outlander books and don’t want to be spoiled for the show, we suggest yo…
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The giant head in the sky commanded “Show me what you got!” and lo, did Earth comply with some of the sweetest jams ever conceived. At least, that was the plot of the fifth episode of Rick And Morty’s second season, “Get Schwifty.
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Léa Seydoux set to fire plasma blasts as Bella Donna in the Gambit movie · Newswire · The A.V. Club
After an intensely bitter struggle probably comprised of everyone agreeably taking different extremely lucrative jobs on various Hollywood productions then hitting up an early lunch at Melisse, the process of finding the female lead in Fox’s upcomin…
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The Victorian Hugos: 1895 Sees The Triumphant Arrival Of H.G. Wells!
I like writing this series. I really do. It’s rewarding in a number of respects. But some years are less enjoyable to cover than others. 1894, for example, had A Prisoner of Zenda, but not much else that was fun.
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A Taiwanese Boy Trips and Punches a Hole Through a 17th Century Painting – The Atlantic
It’s not quite the story of the Spanish woman who tried to restore a fresco of Jesus, but turned the “once-dignified portrait [into] … a crayon sketch of a very hairy monkey in an ill-fitting tunic”—it’s not even close.
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Stephen Hawking believes he’s solved a huge mystery about black holes – The Washington Post
On Tuesday, famed physicist Stephen Hawking presented new theories on black holes to a crowd of esteemed scientists and members of the media at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
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Enceladus on the ring. js – Just Space
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Granite lathe at an abandoned quarry [2515×4625][OC] : AbandonedPorn
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Mercury finds its way into Grand Canyon : environment
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A group of women, almost all of them black, was kicked off a Napa Valley Wine Train over the weekend for making too much noise, in an incident that prompted accusations of racial bias.
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Donald Trump is winning over women in key primary states, polls show | US news | The Guardian
Related: Donald Trump tells Alabama pep rally ‘I want the election to be held tomorrow’ New polls conducted in the key early-primary states New Hampshire and South Carolina show the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump not only with large …
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A common impairment with lifelong consequences turns out to be highly contagious between parent and child, a new study shows.The impairment? Math anxiety.Means of transmission? Homework help.
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Justin Bieber Is Taking a Break From Live Interviews For a While | Vanity Fair
Better safe than sorry, people always say. Sure, wild risk has often led to great things—just ask Ben Franklin and his magic kite (that was magic, right?)—but a lotta times, if we’re honest, the safest way is usually the best way.
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Truck roof torn off by low bridge near Boston – video | US news | The Guardian
Surveillance video shows a delivery truck slamming into a bridge in Westwood, Massachusetts. Police released the footage, shot on 22 August, after similar incidents involving the low-clearance East Street bridge, located about 20 miles southwest of …
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How Eric Holder’s Corporate Law Firm Is Turning Into a ‘Shadow Justice Department’ | VICE News
The revolving door between the Department of Justice and a certain corporate law firm is spinning faster than ever.
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Lawmakers Are Convinced That Women Are Having Abortions For The Wrong Reasons | ThinkProgress
In a legislative landscape where politicians seek to restrict abortion from all angles — everything from lengthy waiting periods, to harsh restrictions on clinics, to bans on insurance coverage — opponents of the procedure are looking for yet anothe…
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In ‘Passengers,’ You Play the Role of Human Smuggler | Motherboard
What sort of judgment calls do human smugglers make, and how do they weigh the risks involved? Who are the individuals fleeing their home countries, and what are their stories? Created during the Ludum Dare 33 game jam, Passengers seeks to give some…
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‘Don’t overburden central banks,’ says India’s Rajan – BBC News
Central banks are under too much pressure to fix struggling economies, according to the man in charge of India’s monetary policy. Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan hinted that using cheap money to tackle economic problems – rather than p…
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Make a Mini Mallet from a Ball Peen Hammer and Old Furniture Parts
Don’t have a rubber mallet on hand? Convert a ball peen hammer into a mini mallet with an old rubber furniture foot. Mallets are great for assembling furniture and tapping wood into place, without damaging the wood’s surface.
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GitHub Hit By DDoS Attack, Again | Motherboard
The popular code repository website GitHub was hit by a cyberattack on Tuesday morning, just a few months after it suffered a massive and enduring distributed denial of service attack, which was linked to China. The company disclosed the new attack …
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You Can Wipe Out Coal, But You Can’t Bring the Mountains Back | The Nation
In Appalachia, explosions have leveled the mountain tops into perfect race tracks for Ryan Hensley’s all-terrain vehicle (ATV).
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Cameras Catch Coyotes as They Take Manhattan [Slide Show] – Scientific American
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Cameras Catch Coyotes as They Take Manhattan [Slide Show] – Scientific American
The Gotham Coyote Project is using cameras, citizen scientists and environmental DNA to study coyotes as they move into New York City, and eventually, Long Island By | SILHOUETTE: A coyote stops in front of a Gotham Coyote Project camera in the Sout…
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Jeb Bush: Planned Parenthood is ‘not actually doing women’s health issues’
“They’re involved in something way different than that.” What, abortion? Just say it, Jeb. Because three percent of what Planned Parenthood does is related to abortion, nothing they do counts as women’s health? Abortion is a women’s health issue, mi…
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‘Counter-Strike’ Just Had Its Biggest eSports Event and Nobody Was on Adderall | Motherboard
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive just had its biggest eSports event ever in Cologne, Germany, and none of the contestants who participated in the tournament were abusing Adderall or other performance enhancing drugs. This was the first event in whic…
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Rapper Wiz Khalifa was arrested at LAX this week. What was he arrested for? If we’re to believe almost every headline, Wiz’s crime was joyriding a hoverboard at the airport. Are we finally living in the future Back To The Future II promised us? It m…
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This Is What $15.3 Trillion of World Trade Looks Like | Motherboard
World economies can be mind-boggling systems made up of complex chains of supply and demand, buoyed by commodities and fueled by different currencies.
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Mayo Isn’t Mayo Without Eggs, FDA Warns Gates-Backed Startup – Bloomberg Business
Just Mayo just isn’t. Hampton Creek Foods Inc., the healthy-food startup backed by investors including Bill Gates, can’t refer to its vegan-friendly sandwich spread as mayonnaise because it doesn’t have eggs in it, U.S. regulators said.
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Maybe Daniel is the real bully in Karate Kid?
Everyone knows that The Karate Kid is the story of Daniel LaRusso, an undersized new-kid-in-school who, with the help of a wise mentor and unconventional training in the martial arts, is able to triumph over a gang of bullies picking on him.
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Right On Banks, Wrong On Schools
Progressive Democrats are right to hail the new populism in their party driving the debate about the nation’s economic policies and the atrocious inequality those policies have created. Heartened by the bold leadership of Massachusetts Sen.
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H&M, one of the world’s largest fast fashion brands, has launched a €1m ($1.16m) recycling prize in an effort to engage innovators, technologists, scientists and entrepreneurs to find a solution to a growing problem in the clothing industry: waste a…
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The End-of-Summer Art World Bucket List | | Observer
The bad news is summer is almost over. The good news is fall is the art world’s best season—with by and large, the top exhibitions, fairs and a fine chunk of the parties.
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Butterfleye Is A Home Security Camera That Can Learn What Not To Record | TechCrunch
Butterfleye is a hardware startup aiming to build a connected home security camera that avoids coming across as creepily prying. In our over-surveilled digital times, putting an Internet-connected eye in your home could mean opening a peephole to un…
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The Sensel Morph Is A Keyboard On Steroids | TechCrunch
In the world of technology, change happens with the blink of an eye. But one thing that has remained relatively constant throughout the years is the good old mouse and keyboard. The Sensel Morph, freshly unveiled on Kickstarter today, is looking to …
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Spy Agencies Are Like Old-School Porn — But That’s Changing | VICE News
In the fight against the Islamic State (IS), some pretty surprising tools have come to the fore. Teamed up with US forces, Kurdish militias in Syria have been turning to Google-based maps and Android devices to direct US air support.
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This Modular Touchpad May Be the Future of Input Devices | WIRED
Caption: The Sensel Morph looks similar to Wacom’s art tablets and Apple’s Magic Trackpad, but its capabilities are more versatile due to its sensor technology. Sensel Here is a paradox of our times. In recent years, computers have become ridiculous…
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The Sensel Morph wants to be a bigger, better version of Apple’s Force Touch trackpad | The Verge
Earlier this year, Apple opened up some interesting new ways of controlling the MacBook by giving it a trackpad that could detect how hard or soft you were pressing. Now a new company, Sensel, is trying to take that idea a few steps further.
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Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush continued his attack on Planned Parenthood on Tuesday during a town hall in Colorado, saying the women’s health organization shouldn’t get “a penny” because “they’re not doing women’s health issues” and tha…
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A beginner’s guide to Steve Martin’s eclectic, groundbreaking career · Primer · The A.V. Club
Primer is The A.V. Club’s ongoing series of beginners’ guides to pop culture’s most notable subjects: filmmakers, music styles, literary genres, and whatever else interests us—and hopefully you. This installment: Steve Martin, whose influence spans …
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GOLDEN, CO—Saying he couldn’t even begin to consider options before him without performing the gesture, friends of local man Aaron Givens told reporters Thursday that he is entirely incapable of making any plans without excitedly rubbing his palms t…
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Sham telecoms created to scam AT&T must pay back ill-gotten gains | Ars Technica
AT&T has won a $252,000 judgment from the remnants of sham telecoms that were created in order to bill legitimate phone companies for services they didn’t provide. The companies billed AT&T $13 million, but AT&T figured out the scam after paying onl…
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The Grinder’s showrunner couldn’t take the grind · Newswire · The A.V. Club
In what will no doubt be merely the opening salvo for a steady procession of jokes about daily life being a grind and some people being unfit for said grinding, there’s been a change atop of the chain of command for Fox’s upcoming comedy The Grinder.
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Old Dominion’s Sigma Nu Chapter Ignites a Controversy – The Atlantic
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More people play fantasy football than live in the 18 least populated states combined | The Verge
A Forbes article from last year claims 33 million people participate annually in fantasy football.
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Dow Jones Rebounds After China’s ‘Black Monday’ Triggers Financial Panic | VICE News
The Dow Jones industrial average shot up 350 points when markets opened in the US this morning, a rise that came after the index dropped more than 1,000 points at the opening bell yesterday. China’s main index — the Shanghai Composite — dropped 8.
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An American-French citizen has been identified as one of the passengers who acted to halt the attack on a Paris-bound Thalys train on Friday.
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The Growing Global Battle against Blood-Sucking Ticks – Scientific American
On a balmy day in late June, Scott Williams waits for a white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) to fall asleep.
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Highlights from Verge Hack Week 2015 | The Verge
Wave goodbye to Verge Hack Week, our now-annual tradition where we blow up the site and turn the ashes into a playground for the staff. Verge Hack Week is a chance for our editorial and product teams to merge into some indistinguishable mass of weir…
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Right-Wing Media Freaks Out Over Textbook That Teaches Black Lives Matter | ThinkProgress
A line of textbooks aimed at teaching students current events has been targeted by right-wing media because it happens to address the complex issues raised by Black Lives Matter.
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What is next for Brazil’s faltering economy? – Al Jazeera English
Five years ago, Dilma Rousseff convincingly won Brazil’s presidential election, inheriting a resource-rich economy, a reduction in poverty and a rise in literacy.
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Maybe Hobby Lobby won’t be as big of a deal as we thought it would be. As a matter of legal doctrine, the Supreme Court’s decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby was an earthquake, holding that business owners could use their own religious beliefs to lim…
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Still Confused About the Blockchain? These Hackathon Apps Show Its Power | Motherboard
We live in a day and age where it only takes 48 hours to program a decentralized horse registry. All it takes is the Ethereum blockchain, also known as the “world computer,” which seeks to use the technology that enables cryptocurrencies like Bitcoi…
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Piracy scam ‘put film industry at risk of £120m loss’ – BBC News
A social recluse ran an internet piracy scam from his bedroom that put the movie industry at risk of losing £120m, a court has heard.Paul Mahoney, 30, from Carnhill in the Creggan area of Londonderry, pleaded guilty to a number of offences.These inc…
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The New Walking Dead Trailer Is Utterly Meaningless Yet Incredibly Badass
In an incredible achievement, this Walking Dead trailer tells us absolutely nothing about the upcoming season, but is impossible to stop watching. It’s like the rotating mask illusion, but with zombie apocalypse survivors.
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Getting a read on the American public’s views on education is no easy task, made more complicated by just how much local schools vary. In a country with more than 13,000 school districts that enroll nearly 50 million students, a range of experiences…
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Why Did Two Girls Want to Kill for Slender Man? — NYMag
If 12-year-olds Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser knew that the internet character they worshipped was a fantasy, why did they want to kill their friend for him? Payton had been called “Bella” since about the first grade. Morgan had been Bella’s best …
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BLDGBLOG’s end-of-summer reading list
From the always excellent BLDGBLOG, a list of recommended books for your end-of-summer reading. Included on the list are a novel about drug cartels, a book about crime in the future, a history of Nazi concentration camps, and a book on rust, about w…
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Germany Is Set to Accept Asylum Applications From all Syrians Who Arrive There | VICE News
VICE News is closely watching the international migrant crisis. Check out the Open Water blog here.
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Flooding Fields in California’s Drought (Trailer) | VICE News
Faced with a severe drought, California enacted mandatory water conservation rules in early April for the first time in the state’s history. But the agriculture industry — which consumes 80 percent of the state’s water — was exempt from the new rest…
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Cablevision lines up the beginning of a premium TV package for cord cutters | The Verge
Adds CBS and Showtime, which it’ll sell… eventually TV networks like HBO and Showtime have been starting to offer online subscriptions, and they’ve been turning to internet providers to help sell them.
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US foils ‘plot’ to fly drugs and porn into Maryland prison – BBC News
Two men have been detained on suspicion of trying to smuggle drugs and pornography into a prison in Maryland using a drone, prison officials say. They said the suspects were spotted outside a state prison in Cumberland on Saturday, with a drone, han…
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Tapingo Launches A Student-Run Delivery Service, Plus Other New Ordering Options | TechCrunch
As students return to college campuses this week, Tapingo is introducing three new features available at all 125 schools where the mobile ordering service is currently in use.
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IAEA asks for more money to monitor Iran nuclear deal – BBC News
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has asked member states for more money to supervise last month’s nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers. The global watchdog’s director-general, Yukiya Amano, said it would require €9.2m ($10.6m;…
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Paris train attack ‘premeditated’ – 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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Private Investigator Startup Exploits Ashley Madison Hack | WIRED
The Ashley Madison hack is bad news for, well, just about everyone. With some 32 million users reportedly exposed, the hack of “the most famous name in infidelity” is bad for the company, bad for its users, and undeniably awful for their spouses.
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MIT demos sub-$10k 3D printer that can spew 10 materials at once – Boing Boing
MIT researchers built a 3D printer from just $7,000 in off-the-shelf parts that can print ten different materials at a time. Current multi-material 3D printers generally can only spew out three materials and cost more than $200,000. From MIT News:
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William Hurt will be on Trial with Billy Bob Thornton · Newswire · The A.V. Club
William Hurt’s work with robots on Humans wrapped up earlier this month, so he’s got a little time on his hands to interact with slightly more loving individuals—lawyers.
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This Guy Rappelled Down the CN Tower For the Launch of Windows 95 | Motherboard
Twenty years ago this week, Microsoft released Windows 95 to the world. It might be hard to imagine now, but the launch of a new operating system was a huge deal back in 1995. When Windows 95 launched, there were parties at midnight where people lin…
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Rapper Wiz Khalifa was arrested at LAX this week. What was he arrested for? If we’re to believe almost every headline, Wiz’s crime was joyriding a hoverboard at the airport. Are we finally living in the future Back To The Future II promised us? It m…
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Someone Cracked 4000 Ashley Madison Passwords, And Loads of Them Are Awful | Motherboard
As catastrophic as the hack of extramarital affairs site Ashley Madison is, it could have been a lot worse. Although the email addresses of a purported 37 million users were leaked online, at least their passwords were hashed. But for some that migh…
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“Robot Scientist” to Search for Laws of Nature That Underlie the Universe
Everything that is changing around and within us – from the relatively simple motion of celestial bodies, to weather and complex biological processes – is a dynamical system.
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It seems like we wait for a disastrous disease outbreak before we get serious about making a vaccine for it. Seth Berkley lays out the market realities and unbalanced risks behind why we aren’t making vaccines for the world’s biggest diseases.
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GoPro’s Nick Woodman To Speak At Disrupt SF 2015 | TechCrunch
The last time GoPro CEO and Founder Nick Woodman stopped by Disrupt SF, the company had yet to go public, the Hero3 had just been announced and VR was still a thing of the future. We’re excited to announce that Woodman is returning to Disrupt SF and…
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Following a similar move which saw it becoming the first internet service provider to distribute HBO NOW to its broadband customers, New York-area cable TV company Cablevision announced this morning that it will offer its internet customers the abil…
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Major Android remote-access vulnerability is now being exploited | Ars Technica
Based on anonymized data collected from users of an app designed to check for a newly revealed vulnerability in many Android devices, Check Point has discovered that at least one application currently in the Google Play store is exploiting the vulne…
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Row as Uzbekistan art museum director sacked – BBC News
The local government dismissed Marinika Babanazarova from the Savitsky museum on Monday, without specifying a reason. However, Ms Babanazarova says the decision is linked to accusations that she stole original paintings and replaced them with fakes.
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Dick Cheney (Iran) to give big speech (Iran) on who we should bomb next (Iran)
Still itching for new wars. Oh, good. I was wondering when the vice president and chief operating officer of Failure, Incorporated was going to weigh in.
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Why Are Women and Minorities Still Underrepresented In Some Medical Specialties? | ThinkProgress
Closing persistent health disparities among women and minorities requires the increased presence of these groups as practitioners in medical specialties, a recent study suggests.
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Watch a boy trip and push his hand through a $1,500,000 painting – Boing Boing
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Nepal buildings torched after Tharu constitution clashes – BBC News
Residents of a town in north-western Nepal have defied a curfew imposed after deadly clashes, torching homes and vandalising buildings, police say.
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Lonely Mountain On Dwarf Planet Ceres Has Bizarre Bright Streaks | Video
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Historic day for LGBT rights, says UN ambassador – video | World news | The Guardian
Samantha Power, US ambassador to the United Nations, says Tuesday’s meeting at the security council on LGBT rights is a ‘small but historic step’.
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Every Carrier’s Confusing Phone-Buying Plans, Explained
The next time you go buy a new cellphone, things are going to look a lot different. The subsidized two-year contract is all but dead, and the carriers have replaced it with a new heap of confusing options. Here’s what you need to know about buying a…
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Alabama Shakes’ Brittany Howard on Her Band’s Music, Live Performances | Vanity Fair
As a child, Brittany Howard mixed chemicals and caused explosions in her family’s treehouse. These days, her explosions are onstage, where, as the lead singer-guitarist of Alabama Shakes, she delivers emotional, soul-baring performances.
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Track a Tree [U.K.] – Scientific American
Ancient woodland at Brading, Isle of Wight, England showing bluebells (blue flowers, Hyacinthoides non-scripta), ramsons (white flowers, Allium ursinum) and hazel (trees, Corylus avellana). Courtesy of Coppice1.JPG, via Wikipedia Commons.
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Chic by Choice Acquires Its Berlin Competitior La Remia | TechCrunch
Chic by Choice (CBC), a European startup which resembles RentTheRunway, has acquired its German competitor La Remia. Terms were undisclosed. Anna Mangold und Claudia von Boeselager, the founders of La Remia, will stay on board as advisors.
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5 Steps to Feed the World and Sustain the Planet – Scientific American
Right now about one billion people suffer from chronic hunger. the world’s farmers grow enough food to feed them, but it is not properly distributed and, even if it were, many cannot afford it, because prices are escalating. But another challenge lo…
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Why Neuroscience Needs Hackers – Scientific American
There was a time when neuroscientists could only dream of having such a problem. Now the fantasy has come true, and they are struggling to solve it. Brilliant new exploratory devices are overwhelming the field with an avalanche of raw data about the…
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‘WWE Raw’: Sting in a Box, Jon Stewart in Pain | Rolling Stone
What a SummerSlam! Oh, wait, that was on Sunday. Well, last night sure felt like the real prestige affair, as there were debuts, returns and celebrity cameos galore.
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The human body has been a subject of fascination for artists for centuries.
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Red Fireworks Lose Cancer-Causing Potential – Scientific American
Makers of fireworks and flares have long believed that the beautiful red color in their explosions could be attained only with chlorine-based compounds. But after these ingredients combust, they can transform into cancer-causing chemicals that then …
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Inside the Whitney Plantation, the First and Only American Museum About Slavery – The Atlantic
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How to Make Privacy Policies Better, After Spotify’s Scandal – The Atlantic
The end of last week saw one of those tech stories that runs the cycle—from Twitter outrage to corporate chagrin—in less than 48 hours. Here’s what happened: On Thursday, a major tech company (in this case, Spotify) debuted a new privacy policy.
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Watch Langhorne Slim Perform Jubilant ‘Strangers’ on ‘Conan’ | Rolling Stone
Langhorne Slim couldn’t have downloaded a better ringback tone. Call his cell and you’ll be met with not a simple ring, but the chorus to Bill Withers’ Live at Carnegie Hall version of “Friend of Mine.
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Secondhand Souls · Christopher Moore · Book Review · The A.V. Club
In the modern landscape of trilogies, series, and re-boots—many of them serious and gritty—Christopher Moore’s Secondhand Souls is a breath of fresh San Francisco air.
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Watch Solange, Dev Hynes Reunite at FYF, Cover Nina Simone | Rolling Stone
Footage of Solange Knowles and Blood Orange mastermind Dev Hynes rehearsing their stirring cover of Nina Simone’s “To Be Young, Gifted and Black” has surfaced, prior to a performance of the track at the FYF Fest in Los Angeles on Sunday.
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10 Years After Katrina, New Orleans Is Still Not Prepared for the Next Storm – The Atlantic
NEW ORLEANS—The question of what it will take to prevent the next Katrina or Sandy has a pretty straightforward answer: money.
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The schoolyard taunts from Donald J. Trump arrive on a daily basis, raining down on Jeb Bush’s sober, careful and policy-minded campaign with growing acerbity. Mr. Trump has called Mr. Bush’s immigration plans “baby stuff” and his education policy “…
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Jordy Nelson’s Injury Will Test Aaron Rodgers — And The Value Of Wide Receivers | FiveThirtyEight
More than anything else, the Green Bay Packers of recent vintage have been known for an explosive offense. Only the New England Patriots have scored more points over the past five seasons, and ESPN’s Football Power Index projected that the Packers w…
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The Lost Summer : Longreads Blog
Below is the story of a single mother and her daughter. Names and certain identifying details have been changed to protect their identities. By the time Olympia picked up her 6-year-old daughter Raina from the babysitter she was tired.
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One enduring constant of the world economy since 2008 is the chorus of sober-sounding people declaring that the Fed must act responsibly and raise rates.
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Streaming radio app TuneIn adds MLB broadcasts and commercial-free music | The Verge
The streaming radio app TuneIn is continuing to move beyond traditional radio.
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Disgraced Museum Curator Releases Excerpts From Tell-All Memoir | Observer
Ten years ago, all eyes in the art world were fastened on Getty Museum curator of antiquities Marion True, who was put on trial by the Italian government for conspiring to acquire stolen art for the museum.
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The medical abortion works — so why aren’t more women using it? | The Verge
And why aren’t doctors more vocal about it? I found out I was pregnant during a routine gynecological exam after I mentioned my period was a few days late. My doctor told me she’d need to collect a urine sample anyway, so they’d test it just to be s…
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The Danger of ‘Foreign Policy by Bumper Sticker’ | The Nation
Appearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1966, George F. Kennan, the legendary Cold War diplomat often called “the father of containment,” criticized the escalation of the war in Vietnam.
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Netflix is begging for teen eyeballs with two new movies from YouTube stars | The Verge
According to The New York Times, Netflix is licensing two recent feature films made by popular YouTube personalities.
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“Lack of resources” keeps Neil Young’s Pono Player from expanding | Ars Technica
Neil Young’s oddly shaped MP3 player has apparently found a small niche, regardless of whether listeners can actually hear the difference between its 24-bit, 192kHz songs and music streamed or downloaded from the likes of Apple or Spotify.
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Dinner and Decadence at Eleven Madison Park | | Observer
In this weekend’s New York Times, Edward Frame wrote a dishy, behind-the-scenes essay about his experience as a captain at a restaurant in the city with three Michelin stars. “Dinner and Deception,” read the stark headline.
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New Game of Thrones Set Sighting Seems to Confirm the Return of a Fan Favorite | Vanity Fair
Casting news for Game of Thrones Season Six has been a little more secretive than in years past.
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Explosion At Afghan Gas Terminal Kills 11 | VICE News
At least 10 children and one adult were killed by a series of explosions and subsequent blaze which began at a gas storage facility outside the western Afghan city of Herat on Monday night, officials said.
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Amazon expands Prime Now one-hour delivery to hometown Seattle | The Verge
Amazon’s one-hour delivery service, Prime Now, is expanding to cover new markets including the online retailer’s hometown of Seattle, Washington. Beginning today, Prime Now is also spreading to Amazon Prime subscribers in Bellevue, Redmond, and Kirk…
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Apollo 14 Astronaut, Speaks Out On Roswell & The Existence Of Aliens | Observer
Recently, UK tabloid The Mirror, published a story quoting Apollo 14 Astronaut and sixth man to walk on the Moon, Edgar Mitchell, as saying that “Peace-loving aliens tried to save America from nuclear war.
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Explosion at Afghan Gas Terminal Kills 10 Children | VICE News
At least 10 children and one adult were killed by a series of explosions and subsequent blaze which began at a gas storage facility outside the western Afghan city of Herat on Monday night, officials said.
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Luigi will always be a second place, runner-up, wannabe Mario | The Verge
A few years ago, it seemed Luigi — brother of Mario, hunter of ghosts, possessor of no surname — would finally assert himself as something more than a milquetoast other guy.
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Egypt: Making art public – Al Jazeera English
Many of Egypt’s revolutionary activists claim that the 2011 uprisings were not simply about former President Hosni Mubarak. They were about placing power and resources in all spheres in the hands of the public. In the cultural sphere, art is a conte…
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Jackass star Steve-O facing criminal charges for ‘SeaWorld Sucks’ protest | US news | The Guardian
Jackass star Steve-O will face five criminal charges after he climbed a crane in Hollywood to protest SeaWorld and drew dozens of emergency responders to a construction site earlier this month.
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Today’s Best Media Deals: What We Do in the Shadows, Die Hard, and More
Even if you aren’t a vampire fan, What We Do in the Shadows is a must-watch mockumentary, and Prime members can grab a copy for $15 today, an all-time low. [What We Do in the Shadows, $15 for Prime members only]http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00..…
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Victoria Beckham’s Best Outfits | Vanity Fair
1/11The Spice Girls once sang, “If you want my future, forget my past.” Unfortunately, Victoria, we can’t oblige. At the 1997 Music Awards, Posh rocked a sultry LBD that would later become synonymous with her pop-culture persona and inspire Hallowee…
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Premature Eradication: How the Media Kills Off Living Celebs | Observer
Though not meriting inclusion in Webster’s, there’s a word for death announcements that publicly kill off celebrities before their time: Vigodaed.
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South Africa officers guilty of Mozambican man’s murder – Al Jazeera English
Eight South African police officers have been found guilty of murdering a Mozambican man who died after being dragged behind a moving police van two years ago.
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How Bruce Springsteen Made ‘Born To Run’ an American Masterpiece | | Observer
As an album, it was not a revelation. Unlike its predecessor, it did not herald an unprecedented songwriting style that music fans found to be unbelievably ambitious, audacious, mad, rad. Gone were the lyrics that sounded like Chuck Berry had been s…
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On the Market: Morning links from the New York Observer | Observer
A perfect late August story: plans to expand the surfing area in the Rockaways have run up against opposition from the residents of a new condo development that fronts that strip of beach.
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Joe Biden’s Half-Campaign: Playing The Media | FiveThirtyEight
Vice President Joe Biden is “increasingly leaning toward entering the race” for president, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The disclaimer: He will do so only if “he can knit together a competitive campaign at this late date.”
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as Smart Object by Alexander Margolin / 500px
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Funny cat drink coffee in the morning : StartledCats
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Matt Kaliner’s sandcastles are more awesome than yours – Boing Boing
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Xbox users have to pay $20 more to use old instruments on Rock Band 4 | Ars Technica
Since Harmonix first announced it was bringing the Rock Band franchise to a new generation of consoles, there have been persistent questions about how the new games would support guitar and drum controllers designed for older systems.
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Everything that is happening in the solar industry is happening in Nevada right now.
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Common Foods That are Toxic to Dogs
Our pets are at our mercy, so it’s up to us to make sure they’re safe. This can be tough sometimes, because a lot of seemingly harmless everyday foods can be toxic to our animals. This infographic lays out some of the most dangerous foods for dogs a…
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Charlie Miller, the Infamous Jeep Hacker, Is Leaving Twitter | Motherboard
A security researcher who helped expose just how vulnerable modern cars may be to hackers is leaving his full time job at Twitter. Charlie Miller confirmed on Twitter (where else?) late last night that he would be leaving the San Francisco-based soc…
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Target To Pay Huge Settlement Over Racial And Gender Hiring Discrimination | ThinkProgress
Target agreed to pay $2.8 million on Monday to settle a claim that the retailer disproportionately screened out applicants based on their race or gender. The complaint, filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), targeted certain hi…
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Samsung Galaxy Note 5 faces stylus issue – BBC News
Some early adopters of a new Samsung phone have said the device’s stylus suffers from a design flaw. The S-Pen stylus for Galaxy Note 5 models can be stored within the body of the phone, but when inserted upside down it appears to snag on an interna…
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Why Trump Supporters Are Backing The Real-Estate Mogul – The Atlantic
Leader. Decisive. Successful. Brave. Committed. True American. That’s how voters described Donald Trump in a focus group moderated by Frank Luntz on Monday night. Twenty-nine men and women from the Washington, D.C.
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Kudzu not that bad – Boing Boing
It supposedly conquered the South, but Kudzu grows mostly in our imagination. Writing for The Smithsonian, Bill Finch reports that the damage and its spread is vastly overstated.
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No one really knows how likely a bioterrorism attack is | Ars Technica
To analyze the security risks of biological research, policy makers would need to know two things: the likelihood that bioweapons will threaten national security, and the likelihood that legitimate research could be misused to make bioweapons. Both …
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Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, August 25th – The New Yorker
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Mozilla CEO Does Not Tolerate Online Harassment | Motherboard
Tech company Mozilla said this week it plans to find and fire an employee suspected of posting hateful and sexist comments online. Mozilla CEO Chris Beard said yesterday if a Reddit user who made a series of posts about women at the company is confi…
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A Biden 2016 Push Is Getting Realer by the Day | Vanity Fair
As the Summer of Trump slowly draws to a close, Vice President Joe Biden appears closer than ever to actually throwing his hat into the ring and declaring his run for president.
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Playing through the pain – Al Jazeera English
Black adhesive tape is wrapped tightly around a hand roughened by the tricycle it operates every day. Beneath the goalposts, Abdul jumps and then stretches to catch the ball. His body slides along the dry earth.
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Around when Serial was the hot podcast, there were parodies aplenty, including a Santa-centric one from Saturday Night Live. But now that the Serial drama has calmed down, what podcasts are left to make fun of? And in a way that enough people will a…
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Ukraine: Going underground to escape the conflict – Al Jazeera English
Donetsk, Ukraine – On the front lines of war-ravaged eastern Ukraine, Svetlana Alexandrovna, 64, has spent the last 12 months sheltering in the basement of her home on the outskirts of Donetsk.
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Ferguson unrest: Judge withdraws pre-2015 arrest warrants – BBC News
A new judge in Ferguson, Missouri, has halted court practices that were seen as a major factor in unrest over the shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown a year ago.Judge Donald McCullin cancelled arrest warrants issued before this year, ma…
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Bruce Campbell Is Racially Sensitive in this Great New Ash Vs. Evil Dead Trailer
Every morning when I wake up, I thank the deities I do not believe in that somehow the Ash Vs. Evil Dead TV series is actually a thing that’s happening, and that it looks so damn good despite it being more than 20 years since Army of Darkness premie…
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Superstar Barbra Streisand and Hollywood Agent Sue Mengers: The Story | Vanity Fair
On January 27, 1979, Sue Mengers, the first enormously successful female agent in the movie industry, was taking a Saturday-afternoon flight from Los Angeles to New York when a woman on the plane attempted a hijacking.
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Tracking Hannibal Lecter, from Manhunter to Red Dragon · Page To Screen · The A.V. Club
In Page To Screen, we compare a movie to the book that spawned it. The analysis goes into deep detail about specific plot points—in other words, you’ve been warned.
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Deadspin How Do We Fix The Preseason? | Gizmodo Watching NASA Crash a Bunch of Stuff Is the Best Use of Tax Dollars | Jalopnik The Chinese Sky Is Still Falling But Don’t Panic Yet | Jezebel Justin Bieber Has Been Banned From Doing Live Interviews |
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Cartoon: Guns gone wild in national parks
This cartoon was inspired by this disturbing NYT article. I like to think the right to bear s’mores without being shot at falls under the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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On the radio, where it has been ubiquitous all summer, the million-selling single “Where Are Ü Now” by Skrillex and Diplo with Justin Bieber is four minutes of high-tech bliss: a sweet-voiced mixture of longing and recrimination, a lonely plaint wit…
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An Illustrated History of Soul Food | First We Feast
Adrian “The Soul Food Scholar” Miller, is the author of the 2014 James Beard Foundation Award-winning book Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time.
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Bellerby & Co. Globemakers are one of the world’s last remaining makers of globes by hand. Their Instagram account is chock full of their handiwork. If I could afford it (£2000!), I’d get The Livingstone globe in Prussian blue. Beautiful and wonderf…
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What China’s ‘Black Monday’ Means for the UK Economy | VICE | United Kingdom
China’s “Black Monday” has spooked traders right across the world.
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Amazon’s one-hour delivery service, Prime Now, is finally making its way to the company’s hometown with today’s launch in Seattle and surrounding regions. Included in the expansion are Seattle, Bellevue, Redmond, and Kirkland areas, the company says.
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Claim: Ashley Madison exec “hacked competitor” and stole personal data – Boing Boing
Emails sent by the “have an affair” dating network’s CEO suggest the firm “hacked” rival Nerve.com in 2012, taking its user database. “They did a very lousy job building their platform.
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What it Takes for a “Beast” to Find a “Beauty” – Scientific American
Couples who spark a romantic relationship shortly after meeting are most likely to match in physical attractiveness; however, when people get to know each other well over an extended period of time before dating, it’s not unusual to see greater disp…
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Philips Launches Cheaper Hue Smart Light Bulb Kit | TechCrunch
The Philips Hue product line is great, but it’s also very expensive with some starter kits costing $200. If you really want to be able to control multiple light bulbs at a time, Philips has something new for you — a $40 wireless dimming kit.
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Jeb Bush clarifies which ethnicity sends anchor babies – Boing Boing
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New York Times backs down after complaint by Mario Vargas Llosa | Media | The Guardian
Mario Vargas Llosa, the Nobel prize-winning author, has slammed the New York Times for publishing what he called “slanderous and perfidious” gossip that, it transpired, was culled from the Daily Mail’s website.
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States with more guns have more police fatalities | Ars Technica
A new study published in the American Journal of Public Health concludes that high rates of gun ownership triple the likelihood that law enforcement officers in the US will be killed on the job.
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Why is Britain an ‘old fox’ in Iranian media rhetoric? – BBC News
Iran’s conservative media love to use the phrase “the old fox” to describe Britain and remind audiences of what they see as the cunning, sly and devious actions of the UK.
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Jimmy Kimmel trolling Jimmy Fallon’s Stupid Games on his show! : television
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Like walking on Mars. Santiago Island, Galapagos. [5752×3835][OC] : EarthPorn
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That’s a smart way to escape. : gifs
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In a very funny passage in his dynamic new novel, Jonathan Franzen draws a very funny portrait of a writer struggling to write a novel “that would secure him his place in the modern American canon.
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A short film focusing on the rivalry of two characters in a game of archaeological one-upmanship. In a rush to deliver an increasingly esoteric selection of objects to the museum curator in a bid to grab headlines from one another. As their latest r…
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The Value of Slow Journalism in the Age of Instant Information – Nieman Reports
Paul Salopek had been writing international stories for more than 20 years before he decided to slow down. “I was a conventional foreign correspondent zipping around the world doing fireman stories,” he says.
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Ignore the Stock Market This Week | The New Republic
On Monday, the world’s stock markets continued to fall after suffering steep losses the previous week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, one of the most widely followed indexes, opened for trading by dropping more than 1,000 points in the first six …
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Q&A: Why Is Blue Light before Bedtime Bad for Sleep? – Scientific American
In the modern age of technology it is not uncommon to come home after a long day at work or school and blow off steam by reading an e-book or watching television. Lately, however, scientists have been cautioning against using light-emitting devices …
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Why Billion-Dollar Valuations Don’t Matter | TechCrunch
In the last few years, there’s been a massive decoupling between private and public markets. A Goldman Sachs report shows that since December, five of the seven most recent exits for billion–dollar startups came in at valuations equal to or below th…
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Steam competitor GOG Galaxy now lets you ‘rollback’ troublesome game updates | The Verge
Updates are meant to make games better, adding in new features and fixes to improve the experience for players. But it doesn’t always work out like that; often, they instead introduce unexpected bugs or other problems that can ruin a game that previ…
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Kim Kardashian Surpasses Beyoncé for Title of Most Popular Person on Instagram | Vanity Fair
To have the most followers on Instagram is to be, in a sense, the most popular kid at school.
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What next for the global economy after China market woes? – BBC News
It’s been a rough August for investors. As has now been repeated ad nauseam, trillions of dollars have been wiped off global stock markets. And that’s left many questioning the underlying health of the global economy and wondering what comes next.
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Singapore calls snap September general election – BBC News
Singapore’s government has called a snap general election for 11 September. The governing People’s Action Party (PAP) has held power for more than 50 years.
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My cat Gwen Stacy and her half mustache : cats
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This Surreal Novel Captures The Weirdness of Modern Relationships | The New Republic
A common complaint about recent developments in dating is that there is now too much choice. In Nancy Jo Sales’s recent Vanity Fair article about Tinder, an investment banker named “Dan” compared the dating app to an online food delivery service: “I…
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News | Dawn Sends Sharper Scenes from Ceres
The closest-yet views of Ceres, delivered by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, show the small world’s features in unprecedented detail, including Ceres’ tall, conical mountain; crater formation features and narrow, braided fractures.
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Usually during the opening days of the Venice Biennale, the only liquid you get drenched in is prosecco. But before these collectors and opportunists could make it to the cocktail waiters inside the Fondazione Prada, the jetty gave way, dumping them…
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American Runner | The New Republic
I’ve come to this headless finchTangled in sunlight and kudzu vineAlong the Raritan, just off the riverGeneral Washington boated and prowledWith the teeth of former slaves in his headTo place my body in the wayOf something other than my death,But ev…
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SlideShare Rebrands As “LinkedIn SlideShare,” Adds A Pinterest-Like Clipboard Section | TechCrunch
Over three years after its acquisition by LinkedIn, SlideShare this morning is getting deeper integration with the professional social network, a rebranding (now it’s “LinkedIn SlideShare”) and a new tool that allows users to clip out the best slide…
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Brief history of hand dryers – Boing Boing
We are nearly a century into our quest to rid public bathrooms of towels. First patented in 1922, but not effectively implemented until the 1940s, the “electric towel” has been made more efficient over the decades—but Dyson’s fancy newfangled Airbla…
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Nelson Mandela grandson freed on bail after rape charge – BBC News
A South African court has granted bail to one of Nelson Mandela’s grandsons who has been charged with raping a 15-year-old girl last month. His lawyers said he did not want to be tried as a “Mandela” but as a “normal person”. He cannot be named unti…
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Ferguson activists launch Campaign Zero
The campaign’s launch announcement emphasized the need to demand policy change now. Right now, the country is awake. We must continue to leverage this awakening for substantive change.
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One Direction are tired: four years of 1D, by the numbers | The Verge
If you were wondering if that weird sound you heard late Sunday evening was all of tween Twitter crying out in an anguished wail, rest assured you’re not crazy: the members of One Direction are going their separate ways.
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Make Super-Flavorful Corn Soup in Just Half an Hour with Your Pressure Cooker
I love corn. I love it grilled, fresh, or in a creamy soup. I even enjoy “milking” the cobs, scraping every bit of starchy liquid out with the back of my knife to make the stock, but J.
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This Bird is the Highest Flier in the World. Guess How We Found That Out.
This is the Rüppell’s griffon vulture. It perches on cliffs in Africa, and has to travel a hundred miles at a time to get food. It manages this by going to high altitudes, which led some very unlikely people to make a scientific discovery.
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Are Silicon Valley Apps Killing New York’s Laundromats? | Motherboard
On a recent weekday morning, the M&W laundromat in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, is, if not packed, at least busier than the other coin-ops in the immediate neighborhood. The owner’s daughter, Miriam Benavides, is behind the counter ringing up customers’ dr…
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Airbnb Gets Tourist Tax D’Accord In Paris, Its Largest Market | TechCrunch
Airbnb has announced it will begin collecting tourist tax in Paris, the most popular city for home sharing on its platform, starting from October 1 — after which the remittance collection will be gradually expanded to cover the other cities where th…
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BBC Sport – Greg Rutherford wins historic World Championships gold
Britain’s Greg Rutherford has won long jump gold at the World Championships in Beijing to claim all four major titles. The 28-year-old’s 8.41m leap sees him become only the fifth Briton to hold Olympic, world, European and Commonwealth titles simult…
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Venturi battles storms and salt to set electric land speed record | Ars Technica
Venturi, a Monegasque electric vehicle (EV) company, and The Ohio State University have just set a new FIA land speed record for EVs on the salt flats of Bonneville, Utah. Driven by Roger Schroer, the Venturi VBB-3 covered a measured mile at an aver…
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Aviva ‘revenge’ phone hacker jailed for 18 months – BBC News
Richard Neale, 40, pleaded guilty to carrying out the attack as revenge after falling out with colleagues. He was previously a director at Esselar, a company contracted by Aviva to run its security network. Prosecutors said data had been wiped on hu…
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Fake Weed Leads to a Real Drug Crisis – Scientific American
Even as states across the U.S. relax laws governing real marijuana, synthetic cannabinoids—commonly known as fake weed, spice or K2—have become increasingly difficult to control. So far this year more than 5,300 incidents involving the drugs have be…
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Leaked photos show Droid-branded Moto X Play for US customers | The Verge
This weekend, we heard that the Android Moto X Play and Moto X Pure Edition smartphones might be making their way to US shores, rebranded as new Droid handsets from Verizon.
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Your Favorite HDTV Antenna Is Perfect for Football Season, and Only $15
If you want to stop paying your cable company $100/month for channels you don’t watch, it might be time to cut the cord.
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A Fender Bender Along the Russian Border | Motherboard
This is the fifth in a series of dispatches from the Mongol Rally. THE RUSSIAN BORDER—This trip would never be a walk in the park. As prepared as we could be something was bound to occur, throwing a wrench into our plans. Crashing—or at the least, a…
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Another Game of Thrones Character May Be Coming Back From The Dead
Recently cast Donnie Yen posted a picture from the set of the film to instagram, revealing three helmets being used in the film: a classic Stormtrooper helmet, and two new designs, one black, and one sand-colored. Although Yen’s post was quickly pul…
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A walk in the woods : Breathless
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Seems hard to balance like that : sloths
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Regulatory Capture | The New Republic
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For years I thought at leastthe poet took the timeto call me back. Must be a good, yes, good man.Calls his constituents.“Excuse me,” I said. I had to clear my throat.“In one of your poems,the speaker is an amputee who has to pay for sex. -
When thinking about the market madness and its possible real effects, here’s something you — where by “you” I mean the Fed in particular — really, really need to keep in mind: the markets have already, in effect, tightened monetary conditions quite …
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Last week, news broke that the Pentagon is considering several military and federal prisons to house some of the remaining 116 men held at Guantánamo Bay. The effort inaugurates a last-ditch bid to close the infamous facility, opened in 2002 at the …
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Gaia’s first year of scientific observations / Gaia / Space Science / Our Activities / ESA
Last Friday, 21 August, ESA’s billion-star surveyor, Gaia, completed its first year of science observations in its main survey mode. After launch on 19 December 2013 and a six-month long in-orbit commissioning period, the satellite started routine s…
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NGC 7000 in narrowband js – Just Space
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Dank Mr Skeltal : ledootgeneration
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Oil, the lifeblood of many countries that produce and sell it, appears to be rapidly turning into an ever-cheaper economic curse. A year ago, the international price per barrel of oil was about $103. By Monday, the price was about $42, roughly 6 per…
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■ Most other markets in Asia stabilized or rallied modestly. An exception was Japan, whose stocks closed down 4 percent. ■ European equities rebounded, clawing back some of Monday’s losses. The Euro Stoxx 50 rose 4.5 percent in midafternoon trading.…
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GOP “kingmaker” proposes enslavement as an answer to undocumented migrants – Boing Boing
Jan Mickelson hosts one of Iowa’s top talk-radio shows and has entertained many of the GOP’s nomination hopefuls who want his endorsement for the all-important Iowa primary.
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Exclusive preview: Jeff Lemire’s Descender Volume 1: Tin Stars – Boing Boing
Jeff and Dustin are accomplishing something special: they’re telling a deeply personal and human story set in the stars. Young Robot boy TIM-21 and his companions struggle to stay alive in a universe where all androids have been outlawed and bounty …
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The flyer, distributed by an anonymous and still unknown source this weekend, included photographs of white politicians vying for several positions in Southfield, Michigan, a 70% African American city that borders Detroit to the north.
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Six years after unprovoked beating, Denver cop finally fired – Boing Boing
Denver Police Officers Ricky Nixon and Kevin Devine maced four women without provocation and shoved them to the ground in 2009, then lied about it for years.
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‘Tired’ Bolt, ’emotional’ Gatlin cruise into 200m semis – Al Jazeera English
A tired Usain Bolt and an emotionally fatigued Justin Gatlin progressed towards their second blockbuster sprint showdown of the world championships by easing through the 200 metres heats.
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‘Public Morals’: Ed Burns Excels in Edgy ‘60s Crime Saga | | Observer
It took a while for him to find it, but Ed Burns has finally settled into the right era. His latest project has sent him to the ’60s, a decade that seems perfect for him.
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Video: Makeup artist transforms herself into her husky – Boing Boing
Ilana is an Israeli makeup artist who loves her Siberian Husky so much she decided to make herself look like her beloved animal companion. It’s a little disturbing when she opens her eyes for some reason, but it’s quite a display of artistry. Iliana…
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Lost 1950s mosaic mural uncovered in NY after decades behind facade – Boing Boing
Allison Meier reports on the progress in uncovering a gorgeous Max Spivak midcentury stained-glass mosaic that was found in March hidden behind an aluminum facade. Spivak was one of the stars of the WPA’s Depression-era artist commissions.
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Here Is Your WIRED Star Wars Challenge for Day 114 | 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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It’s a complex story — partly about the Beeb facing privatisation and being required to bid out its work; partly about the Met having made some spectacular recent blunders in providing the weather. The Met could conceivably win the open bid.
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Video may have killed the radio star, but The Beatles—the ultimate radio stars—may have inadvertently created the music video with their movies. Fifty years ago today, Help! was released in theaters across the United States.
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WATCH: Flamethrower + trombone = Pyro-Trombone – Boing Boing
Pyro-Trombonist Valentin Guérin performs Arthur Pryor’s Fantastic Polka, accompanied on piano by Valérie Guérin-Descouturelle. Wonder how they lit the candelabra? If you’d like to book a concert, he notes that he is only allowed to do outdoor Pyro-T…
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UK surveillance “worse than 1984,” says new UN privacy chief | Ars Technica
The newly appointed UN special rapporteur on privacy, Joseph Cannataci, has called the UK’s oversight of surveillance “a rather bad joke at its citizens’ expense,” and said that the situation regarding privacy is “worse” than anything George Orwell …
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Too Big to Care: How Massive Medical Groups Are Harming and Killing Patients | VICE News
That was the last thing Debra Nenni McNamee said to her mother, Constance Nenni, before the 76-year-old was wheeled into surgery in March of 2010. It was supposed to be a simple “in and out” procedure, though Nenni would be placed under anesthesia, …
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Samsung fridges can leak your Gmail logins – Boing Boing
Researchers at Pen Test Partners took up the challenge to hack a smart fridge at Defcon’s IoT Village, and discovered that they could man-in-the-middle your Google login credentials from Samsung fridges. The fridges use your Google login to display …
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NASA will test the Orion spacecraft’s landing system with failing parachutes tomorrow | The Verge
Tomorrow, NASA will drop its Orion crew capsule out of a plane flying at 35,000 feet over the Arizona desert, and two of its five parachutes will fail. On purpose. Orion is the next generation of NASA spacecraft that will take humans into space — an…
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Crew rescue entangled whale in freezing Icelandic waters – BBC News
Would you spend your weekend grappling with a whale in freezing Icelandic waters? One team of volunteers did just that, as they attempted to free a whale that had become entangled in fishing gear.
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German student ditches apartment, buys an unlimited train pass – Boing Boing
Leonie Müller’s undergrad thesis will include an analysis of her months living on Germany’s high-speed trains, washing her hair in the bathroom sinks and writing her papers at 100+ km/h.
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Ferguson, Missouri, Judge Cancels Warrants Issued Before December 31, 2014 – The Atlantic
Judge Donald McCullin’s order affects nearly 10,000 warrants, Stephanie Karr, municipal prosecutor for Ferguson, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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TV medium Colin Fry dies aged 53 – BBC News
TV medium Colin Fry has died at the age of 53, his management has announced. The spiritualist, whose shows included Most Haunted and 6ixth Sense With Colin Fry, was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer in April.
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Cereal Is Served In A Shoe Box At This Streetwear Mecca | Observer
Kith is a destination for its legions of sneaker head shoppers addicted not only to the brand’s healthy selection of footwear, but their own eponymous label of athletic-inspired menswear staples.
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Short List / Cut Through The Clutter | Observer
John-Paul Philippe is one of my favorite collaborators, and one who truly expands the definition of what it means to be an artist. His work is multidisciplinary and seamlessly integrates art with architecture.
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The Rare Medical Condition That Makes You Drunk Without Drinking | VinePair
In theory, it sounds somewhat amazing: being able to get drunk without drinking a drop. Surely, Baudelaire would’ve tauted such an existence.
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Short List / Cut Through The Clutter | Observer
The AIA podcast series shares a wealth of knowledge on all things architecture.
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Meet the Genghis Khans of the Plant Kingdom | Atlas Obscura
In human history, certain societies have made it their business to try to take over the world. In plant history, there are species with the same instinct.
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An abandoned hotel in Belgium [1024×683] [OC] : AbandonedPorn
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Vancouver from the Cypress Lookout, BC, Canada [OC] [1600×877] : CityPorn
Vancouver from the Cypress Lookout, BC, Canada [OC] [1600×877] via /r/CityPorn http://t.co/TR9aItugPR http://t.co/DDenZjdtql
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In Troubled Times, the Federal Reserve Must Work for Everyone
In Troubled Times, the Federal Reserve Must Work for Everyone http://t.co/vIbxTufPhh
It’s been a chaotic few days for the world’s markets. Recent events do not paint the picture of a stable economy guided by rational minds. Instead, the world of global finance looks more like a playground in need of adult supervision. Like other nat… -
Library of Congress, Washington D.C. [2048×646][OC] : ArchitecturePorn
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Pizza cones! : interestingasfuck
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You bore me human via /r/gif http://t.co/ljLLHuiXR2 http://t.co/BBvFbi6o6c
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Jelly Fish at Monterrey Bay Aquarium by Dorin Jannotta / 500px
Jelly Fish at Monterrey Bay Aquarium by DorinJannotta http://t.co/fHP4KyseB9 http://t.co/1v7UMUgzf8
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Updoot den click pic 2 c how ur updoot repaired Mr. Skeltal : ledootgeneration
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The Tarantula Nebula, 160,000 light years away in a neighbouring galaxy [5208×3476] [OC] http://t.co/SEAAxCzu0I http://t.co/PMWW2eB2WA
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“All girls dress the same” – Imgur
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Bros in mourning – Kill Screen – Videogame Arts & Culture.
The promise of Gears of War is still best captured by the original “Mad World” trailer. Melancholic and understated, the marketing offered something of a response to the triumphant jingoism of Microsoft’s other blockbuster shooter series, Halo. War …
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BBC Sport – World Championships: Usain Bolt and Justin Gatlin into 200m semis
Sprint rivals Usain Bolt and Justin Gatlin easily progressed into the 200m semi-finals at the World Championships, where they will be joined by Britain’s Zharnel Hughes and Danny Talbot. American Gatlin won his heat in 20.19 seconds, with Jamaican B…
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Julianne Moore wants school named after Confederate hero to be renamed | Film | The Guardian
Almost 30,000 people have signed an online petition sponsored by the Oscar-winning actor Julianne Moore, which calls for a Virginia high school named after a Confederate US civil war general to be renamed.
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South African policemen guilty of murdering Mido Macia – BBC News
A South African court has convicted eight policemen of murdering a Mozambican taxi driver who was tied and dragged behind a police van in 2013.The judge said there was no doubt that the police could have foreseen that their actions would cause the d…
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Afghan refugee ‘pushed wheelchair-bound grandmother to Hungary’ – BBC News
Thousands of migrants are continuing to cross into Hungary, with nearly two thousand one hundred migrants crossing the border from Serbia on Monday alone. Many of the migrants are refugees fleeing conflict in their own countries.
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Cowabunga: Catching a wave out of poverty in India – Al Jazeera English
Kovalam, India – Dharani Kumar, a 23-year-old fisherman with sun-bleached blond hair, sports a smile as wide as the white sand beaches of Tamil Nadu state in southern India. The sea is his life, he says.
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Advertising malware rates have tripled in the last year, according to report | The Verge
Ad networks have been hit with a string of compromises in recent months, and according to a new report, many of the infections are making it through to consumers.
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North Korea’s 50 Missing Submarines Have Apparently Reappeared Following Truce | VICE News
Dozens of North Korean submarines that supposedly disappeared off South Korea’s military radar on Monday have now apparently started returning to their bases, according to a military official quoted by Asian news sources on Tuesday.
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European companies beat US to Iran business after nuclear deal reached | Business | The Guardian
The ink was barely dry on the agreement with Iran to limit its nuclear programme before a German government plane packed with the nation’s economic elite touched down in Tehran.
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Where Did China’s Missing Carbon Emissions Go? | ThinkProgress
The pollution caused by China’s coal use gets a great deal of attention, and for good reason. It causes health problems in both China and America — helping to kill 4,000 Chinese people per day and traveling across the Pacific Ocean to increase smog …
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Vysor Controls Your Android Phone From Chrome, No Android App Necessary
Chrome: There are a variety of ways to remotely control your Android phone. Vysor—from ClockworkMod, the developer behind other popular Android apps like AllCast, Helium, and ROM Manager—may be one of the simplest solutions yet. All you need is a Ch…
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Spotify announced a new privacy policy last Thursday. It did not go over well.
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Ten Conservative Events And Republican-Owned Venues That Ban Guns | ThinkProgress
“Get rid of gun free zones,” Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump tweeted after a gunman massacred five in Chattanooga last month.
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China Cuts Interest Rates, Giving a Boost to Global Stocks – The Atlantic
Stock markets around the world are looking healthier Tuesday—a day after they tanked because of growing concerns about the health of the Chinese economy. The exception was China, where the Shanghai composite index, which fell 8.5 percent on Monday, …
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Wisconsin governor and GOP candidate Scott Walker is facing harsh criticism from American Islamic organizations after claiming that only a “handful” of the world’s Muslims are “reasonable” or “moderate.
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VMware brings Windows 10 and graphics boost to Fusion and Workstation | Ars Technica
VMware’s desktop virtualization software for Macs, Windows PCs, and Linux are being upgraded today to support Windows 10 and new features to boost performance. VMware Fusion for Macs is up to version 8 while Workstation for Windows and Linux is up t…
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Russian activist takes on Putin in ‘food fight’ – Al Jazeera English
Russian activist Olga Savelieva is taking on President Vladimir Putin, and she wants the world to know she is not afraid. People are actually dying because they don’t have food to eat.
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A Page on Hashish Prompts Russia to Block, Then Unblock Wikipedia | Motherboard
After briefly banning Reddit due to a thread on mushrooms two weeks ago, Russian censors have continued their peculiar war on drugs by blocking the local Wikipedia site on Monday night due to a page on hashish, which a court ruled was illegal.
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Glasgow bin lorry crash survivor: ‘Please don’t let me die’ – BBC News
The inquiry into the Glasgow bin lorry crash which killed six people has heard how survivors suffered serious injury. Victim statements read at the inquiry told of broken bones, disfigurement and ongoing psychological trauma.
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Global Markets Rebound While China Tumbles Again | Al Jazeera America
Global markets rebounded Tuesday after China’s central bank cut its key interest rate to support growth in the world’s second-largest economy. Earlier, China’s main stock index closed sharply lower for a fourth day.
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FTSE rebounds with gains of 3.5% – BBC News
(Noon): London’s leading shares surged in Tuesday morning trading, raising hopes that the index’s losing streak might have come to an end.The FTSE 100 bounced back from 10 days of losses, overcoming fears of a Chinese-led global slowdown that had ca…
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Manta Ray by Peter Vruggink / 500px
Manta Ray by pvruggink http://t.co/bF3nFvfGff http://t.co/uZjh4WnJw6
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A slinky falling down in slow motion : interestingasfuck
A slinky falling down in slow motion via /r/interestingasfuck http://t.co/H8Ohz8QnOD http://t.co/iMR0x9CvC6
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Bluering – Rising by Ortwin Khan / 500px
Bluering – Rising by ortwinkhan http://t.co/yBhHd4UnwC http://t.co/fc8OL7DvKc
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Microsoft Prototypes A Keyboard Cover With E-Ink Display : technology
Microsoft Prototypes A Keyboard Cover With E-Ink Display via /r/technology http://t.co/wzMmL942Qy http://t.co/YDOd3qaLAa
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Stormy Sunday by Ingo Kremmel / 500px
Stormy Sunday by PhotodesignSchaman http://t.co/yi9W4f0MUV http://t.co/rzZlyX2az7
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Wild-cat via /r/cats http://t.co/DhABPCnnUa http://t.co/3LtjNuu2Dv
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Donald Trump and Bill Clinton Have the Same Secret Weapon | The New Republic
Donald Trump and Bill Clinton Have the Same Secret Weapon http://t.co/srkGivH9T9
Donald Trump is the Republican frontrunner for president, a fact that has befuddled just about everybody—except perhaps Trump himself—and spawned countless theories: He’s leading because Americans are frustrated with politicians and want a straight-…
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