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Sri Lanka’s ex-leader eyes comeback in parliament polls – Al Jazeera English
Sri Lanka is set to go to the polls in a general election, with former president Mahinda Rajapaksa trying to mount a serious challenge to return to power eight months after his stunning upset in the presidential vote.
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China’s currency wars – Al Jazeera English
In a move that has unsettled global financial markets, China has devalued its currency once again sparking fears of a global currency war.
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Friends were to join family on Saturday for the funeral of a black college football player who was shot dead by a north Texas police officer answering a burglary call at a car dealership. Related: ‘I dream about it every night’: what happens to Amer…
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Space Jam http://t.co/QD4uJgWUd4 http://t.co/p8ptrjZch5
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What is the “right” way to die? We’re experiencing a zeitgeist moment about that. “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End,” by Atul Gawande, is a best-selling book. Videos by Brittany Maynard, a 29-year-old who wanted to die in a way of …
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She had taken care of her husband for the last eight years of his life, through his blindness, through cancer and heart failure. After he died in 2002, she sold the Long Island house they’d loved and shared, finding it too filled with memories, and …
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A Japanese imperial soldier’s crusade against war – Al Jazeera English
Tokurou Inokuma retains much of the self-reliance and self-discipline drilled into him as a young imperial soldier. But he disavows almost everything else he was taught.
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“I am busy right now, what is it you want?” : cats
“I am busy right now, what is it you want?” via /r/cats http://t.co/X0SNTd2XHF http://t.co/gx7Ol163Mi
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After I woke up from my nap, here’s what I’ve found : cats
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Cat. via /r/CatsStandingUp http://t.co/g0ciX7lfha http://t.co/xKwmCx4dYx
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In Defense of the Cockroach – The New Yorker
At Tokuyama Zoo, in the western Japanese prefecture of Yamaguchi, cockroach-petting sessions are scheduled twice daily throughout the month of August. A five-lane track hosts cockroach races, and a human-sized trap allows visitors to simulate the bu…
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Helmut Lang’s Legacy, Ten Years After the Designer Quit Fashion for Art – The Atlantic
In essence what Lang did was create a new design language.
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Blue Angel flying through Chicago, IL [OC][2275×1517] : CityPorn
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Proud young padawan via /r/cats http://t.co/LlldPdCGZE http://t.co/Fs2t9to64B
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Oldest Cat – Spotlight via /r/cats http://t.co/7RC2RvoS4u http://t.co/DbHz3rMjmH
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Dad is sick of your shit – Imgur
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This double-decker bus has a built in escape ladder. : mildlyinteresting
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This is what news headlines look like when you live in Alaska. – Imgur
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Just Chillin’ in London : foxes
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Imagine that, starting tomorrow, half your company’s employees stopped driving to work. The benefits would start accruing almost immediately: less pollution, less real estate needed for parking spaces, improved quality of life and much more.
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The 20 photographs of the week | Art and design | The Guardian
Skip to main content Photography Twenty photographs of the week The 20 photographs of the week Unrest in Ferguson, the global migration crisis, wild weather and baby undulate rays – the best photography in news, culture from around the world this we…
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Lego “Strandbeest Walker” moves on its own : interestingasfuck
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Kitty attacking a pair of defenseless apples. : StartledCats
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Absolutely No Words, this video took my breath away : Breathless
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Largest Wikia Communities : dataisbeautiful
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The way these stars are arranged : mildlyinteresting
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Company in Canada gets U.S. patent for space elevator : space
Company in Canada gets U.S. patent for space elevator via /r/space http://t.co/v0O4Jqka2k http://t.co/DUJ7p7LtyJ
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Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Carly Fiorina wants you and your kids to get measles
Fiorina sought to cover herself by saying that schools could refuse vaccinated children. And that’s certainly a key bit of nuance that she could emphasize if she is pressed on this issue.
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Greeks: How did we lose our way? – Al Jazeera English
For five years Greece has been mired in economic crisis, haunted by the spectre of expulsion from the eurozone. The grim figures of Greece’s great depression are well-known: a 25 percent contraction in the economy; youth unemployment at over 50 perc…
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Central London [5000 x 3330] : CityPorn
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abandoned water park “Wet n Wild” in rural Canada (OC) [3264×2448] : AbandonedPorn
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We have about 50 of these around the office : AdviceAnimals
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Teddy the Tabby and His New Forever Home : cats
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Shelling hits Syrian towns as ceasefire breaks down – Al Jazeera English
Shelling has resumed in two government-held villages in northwest Syria and the rebel-controlled town of Zabadani near Damascus, state media and a monitoring group have said, as a ceasefire covering the areas collapsed.
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Best Space Photos of the Week – August 15, 2015
Best Space Photos of the Week – August 15, 2015 http://t.co/pDw7hVYOD7
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A couple of miles out to sea, off the Northumberland coast, some uncut jewels in the firmament of England’s natural heritage shimmer.
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With a Thousand Times More Cells Than Humans, Why Don’t Whales Get Cancer More? | Motherboard
If you are a US citizen, according to the US government’s Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results Program data from 2010-2012, there is approximately a 40 percent chance that you can expect to be diagnosed with some form of cancer in your lifetim…
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Flamingo in Phoenix Arizona by Tashina van Zwam [OC] [4000×6000] : AnimalPorn
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Scottish Highlands [OC] [2048 x 1363] : EarthPorn
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I got 3D scanned. via /r/pics http://t.co/ab53UG8udP http://t.co/E60N1zH6am
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Scottish Highlands [OC] [2048 x 1363] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/f8dlYJnqXf http://t.co/a0CMlJaSU7 http://t.co/qsAjFnopIt
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Awesome reflection of clouds at Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia [OC] [3600×2023] : EarthPorn
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Seal belly rub. via /r/gifs http://t.co/vlbvgpwXZ5 http://t.co/FcxtvatNwi
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MRW when my friends find me passed out drunk on my doorstep : reactiongifs
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Lebanon says fugitive cleric Ahmed al-Assir detained – Al Jazeera English
Lebanese authorities say they have arrested a fugitive Sunni cleric who was wanted on suspicion of being involved in a deadly shootout with government troops last year.
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Space Photos of the Week: A Comet Gets a Little Gassy | WIRED
Caption: SGR 1745-2900: Magnetar Near Supermassive Black Hole. NASA/CXC/INAF/F.Coti Zelati et al Caption: Hubble 47 Tucanae – UV.
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Hollywood Needs to Stop Stereotyping Gamers | WIRED
Videogames are the world’s most popular form of entertainment, and gamers come from all walks of life.
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While You Were Offline: How Bad Was Your Week? Tell Us in Three Emojis or Less | WIRED
The Internet can be a cruel, unforgiving place filled with jokes about HBO getting Sesame Street for five years, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be a force for good every now and then. Or, at least, a force pointing out bad and laughing at it.
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Some Ebola Survivors Still Suffer—And Doctors Don’t Know Why | WIRED
For the communities in Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia where Ebola took the greatest toll last year, the worst is over. After claiming 11,000 lives, the fatal virus has finally begun to retreat. Numbers of new Ebola cases are dwindling.
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Security News This Week: US Admits It Uses Predictions, Not Data, to Blacklist Flyers | WIRED
DefCon may be in the books, but the hacks keep coming. Make sure to keep an eye on your Corvette’s brakes, lest you find yourself at a dead stop on the road. It looks like even gas pumps aren’t safe from attackers.
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Mexico’s ambassador to US plucked from inner circle and raising eyebrows | World news | The Guardian
Mexico’s relationship with the United States has always been mutually significant: the two countries share a land border of nearly 2,000 miles, and bilateral issues such as the “war on drugs”, migration, border security and trade will undoubtedly pl…
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Award-winning cartoonist and journalist Ted Rall has accused the Los Angeles Times of wrongly casting doubt on his professional integrity, retracting one of his columns and ending his freelance work with the paper in order to curry favor with the Lo…
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Woman pulled off my flight today… : videos
Introducing the Official Twitter account of r/Videos. Click Here and follow! Tweet us something beyond mind-blowing. Follow us on A great place for video content of all kinds. Direct links to major video sites are preferred (e.g. YouTube, Vimeo, etc.
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Crocodile searching in the Daintree National Park, Australia [800 x 269] : EarthPorn
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Meow meow, Sushi and Sprinkles 🙂 : cats
Meow meow, Sushi and Sprinkles 🙂 via /r/cats http://t.co/jod8JNLzoI http://t.co/99i6jGYze6
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me irl via /r/me_irl http://t.co/Dcdr9gjaV5 http://t.co/qpvg4NO4xj
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India and Pakistan celebrate Independence Day – Al Jazeera English
Cuban urban architect Miguel Coyula discusses the potential cultural impact of likely foreign investment in the capital. We hear from Palestinians who were allegedly used as human shields by the Israeli army during the 2014 Gaza war.
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These ants made their home in a sandbag. : mildlyinteresting
These ants made their home in a sandbag. via /r/mildlyinteresting http://t.co/anCXCKHsgX http://t.co/G2Ty2NMyjq
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Muhammad Ali, then Cassius Clay, walking in 1963 London : OldSchoolCool
Muhammad Ali, then Cassius Clay, walking in 1963 London via /r/OldSchoolCool http://t.co/MIziaLR6in http://t.co/NS9ZPynajg
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The European Commission is making the secret Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) trade deal even more secret, introducing a new rule that means politicians can only view the text in a secure ‘reading room’ in Brussels. (independent…
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Dozens of migrants dead as boat sinks in Mediterranean – Al Jazeera English
At least 40 migrants have died after their boat sank in the southern Mediterranean, Italian authorities have reported. The Italian navy wrote on Twitter on Saturday that it was involved in a rescue operation to try and save the migrants.
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These weird Avocados I cut open today. : mildlyinteresting
These weird Avocados I cut open today. via /r/mildlyinteresting http://t.co/VEcZjLPPRZ http://t.co/zF2MMPH72y
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“Space Horizons” Magazine from 1965 : space
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5 minute exposure of the Markermeer, Netherlands [5541×3694] [OC] : ExposurePorn
5 minute exposure of the Markermeer, Netherlands [5541×3694] [OC] via /r/ExposurePorn http://t.co/vonhTHiedP http://t.co/9KTHnmU60E
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Loyalty Bay Raises $1M For Its API To Incentivize With Gifts | TechCrunch
You know those gift cards you see at the checkout counter in various stores? Well, it’s a kind’ve crazy business. Most people, when given gift cards, forget to spend them or that there’s a use-by date.
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August 15, 1979: Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Apocalypse Now’ is Released in Theaters | The Nation
Coppola says he wanted to get to the moral issues that are behind all wars, but I think he has done no more than demonstrate the obvious—that in Vietnam we fought a bad war.
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All I know is that they start this month : AdviceAnimals
All I know is that they start this month via /r/AdviceAnimals http://t.co/eXCHWTsrEg http://t.co/WdV8CQKkLZ
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fur-hrer via /r/lolcats http://t.co/5vpLQi4uzV http://t.co/hSSvxmttBd
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Fallout 4 http://t.co/04XT50jtfB http://t.co/QHvTVD4lSm
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Totally Worked. – Meme on Imgur
Totally Worked. http://t.co/LoB0xPLq7D http://t.co/ioYTkFJu8p
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Lets find this guys friends!!!!!!! – Imgur
Lets find this guys friends!!!!!!! http://t.co/LgkXKjIJuR http://t.co/uMNPzDi3wI
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Rekt when the facts chekt – Imgur
Rekt when the facts chekt http://t.co/Kg8SvRqBSb http://t.co/Spsojn1fFk
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First official image from ‘Finding Dory.’ – Imgur
First official image from ‘Finding Dory.’ http://t.co/SNO4xWT2c9 http://t.co/otkDnwYqfJ
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something to cheer you up – Imgur
something to cheer you up http://t.co/85S1g21gck http://t.co/1qhKycbRHT
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Trump, Sanders converge with Clinton at Iowa fair | TheHill
Iowa is about to get a staggering dose of 2016 star power as Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders will all descend on the Iowa State Fair Saturday.
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David Lammy
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Keeping Up With British Folk Rocker Richard Thompson | Mother Jones
As guitarist and songwriter Richard Thompson, 66, was coming of age as a musician in 1960s England, the majority of British rock bands tended to cover and repurpose American rock and roll and R&B.
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They’re back: Boko Haram’s return under Buhari – Al Jazeera English
This is not the Nigeria that Muhammadu Buhari promised us in the build-up towards the presidential election. Neither is it the one he promised after he had won.
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Herath sends India crashing to Test defeat – Al Jazeera English
Rangana Herath picked up seven wickets in a sublime display of left-arm spin bowling to power Sri Lanka to a spectacular comeback win by 63 runs against India on the fourth day of the opening Test at Galle.
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Seinfeld : firstworldanarchists
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OHMYGOD via /r/cats http://t.co/m82wMICswq http://t.co/BW79ExQcPl
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Mia Couto: ‘I am white and African. I like to unite contradictory worlds’ | Books | The Guardian
Such is the power of Mia Couto’s fiction that, after reading his chilling novel Confession of the Lioness, sculpted lions seem to be everywhere in Rome, where I meet him – from the crouching beast lapping at Bernini’s fountain in the Piazza Navona, …
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Meteora, Greece (Photo by Michele Falzone) [964×576] : EarthPorn
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Rudolph Norris walked out of Morgantown federal prison two weeks ago carrying a duffel bag like no other. First, he had spent six months hand-stitching it himself from dozens of mottled leather scraps, symbolizing the shards of h…
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The Internet of Things Can’t Afford the Internet | Motherboard
The Internet of Things seems foretold at this point. Soon, we middle-class Americans will finally be free of the tyranny of having to actually look at the kitchen trash to determine if it’s full or adjust the thermostat in person.
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Elephants by Steve Bloom – in pictures | Children’s books | The Guardian
All the photographs in this gallery were taken by me in Africa and India for my book Elephants, which has words by David Henry Wilson. Here you can see African elephants disturbing a flock of birds, taken in Savuti, Botswana. Birds love elephants, b…
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NASL’s split-season model, now in third year, offers unpredictable thrills | Football | The Guardian
Last week, Bill Peterson, commissioner of the second-tier North American Soccer League (NASL), offered his support for the introducing promotion and relegation into American soccer. The announcement would, as expected, grab retweets and headlines – …
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me_irl via /r/me_irl http://t.co/PQbCu27Z1U http://t.co/RUf9QfSoIb
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Storm clearing over Mono Lake, CA [OC] [2048 x 822] : SkyPorn
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Storm clearing over Mono Lake, CA [OC] [2048 x 822] via /r/SkyPorn http://t.co/KpBOgeYQwM http://t.co/VWYDzTVUn9 http://t.co/xI6aKjyHjG
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Meow IRL via /r/MEOW_IRL http://t.co/Yw8YNoDp3i http://t.co/XfPOIDDW2o http://t.co/xuRP8ughWJ
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Meow IRL via /r/MEOW_IRL http://t.co/Yw8YNoDp3i http://t.co/XfPOIDDW2o http://t.co/xuRP8ughWJ
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Weekend before-breakfast purr time : cats
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Race in the US: Know your history – Al Jazeera English
There will never be an acceptable explanation for what happened between Michael Brown and Darren Wilson in Ferguson but we will never fully grasp why the stage was set for such an encounter unless we know American history.
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Questions loom as USA women take victory lap with Costa Rica friendly | Football | The Guardian
After winning the World Cup and lifting the trophy as world champions, how soon is too soon for major roster changes? Perhaps the question for coach Jill Ellis is more specific: will she know if she was too slow to make changes before it’s too late?
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I turned 18 a half hour ago, I’ve spent 100% of my adult life on reddit. : Showerthoughts
Like us on facebook! Showerthought is a loose term that applies to any thought you might have while carrying out a routine task like showering, driving, or daydreaming.
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Endless Space : InterestingGifs
Endless Space via /r/InterestingGifs http://t.co/Vkf5cn123h http://t.co/oYUIeyeITz
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HMB while I get this woman’s attention : holdmybeer
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How the lazy spend their weekend… : LazyCats
How the lazy spend their weekend… via /r/LazyCats http://t.co/WpnL44pz2c http://t.co/fH5wSZ4dyW
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Old Helensburgh railway tunnel – NSW, Australia [OC] [2427×1618] : EarthPorn
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Whoops my anarchy symbol : firstworldanarchists
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My first photograph of lightning over Lake Erie. [OC] [1280×853] : EarthPorn
My first photograph of lightning over Lake Erie. [OC] [1280×853] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/yMVhSD8dOD http://t.co/pjKm5JSTTy
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Ancient Castle, Ancient Meteor [Scotland] [3609×2400] : ExposurePorn
Ancient Castle, Ancient Meteor [Scotland] [3609×2400] via /r/ExposurePorn http://t.co/eBQnOO8yiM http://t.co/DneckA1tGz
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UK councillor wants armed drones to kill seagulls
Drones are being used for almost everything now — from monitoring property to delivering packages — but according to the BBC one UK councillor wants to use them for a new purpose: killing off seagulls.
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The week everything came together for Vicky Duval was the week it all fell apart.
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Working for yourself doesn’t necessarily mean you always got to work alone. You can collaborate on client work with other freelancers (like writers + web designers or even designers + developers). You can partner up to launch companies or agencies.
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Feidin Santana recalls capturing video of the moment, on 4 April 2015, that Walter Scott, an unarmed 50-year-old black man, was shot in the back and killed by white police officer Michael Slager in North Charleston – a shooting that prompted widespr…
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Feidin Santana relives the morning of Saturday 4 April 2015 on a near continuous loop. It was around 9.30am and the 23-year-old was running uncharacteristically late for work.
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The ‘sharing’ economy is just futuristic feudalism
You don’t need a car, you can just rent one by the hour or rely entirely on Uber. You can turn your house into an asset that keeps paying out by listing it on Airbnb when you’re out of town. You don’t need a kitchen, you can go full Soylent and rely…
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Neil deGrasse Tyson when he Wrestled (1970s) : OldSchoolCool
Neil deGrasse Tyson when he Wrestled (1970s) via /r/OldSchoolCool http://t.co/l4crefaPvU http://t.co/YfRpY3XAvJ
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What my life has become – Imgur
What my life has become http://t.co/g4xm6usqg0 http://t.co/OUSVo5upwV
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I would be absolutely furious. – Meme on Imgur
I would be absolutely furious. http://t.co/CLq5lLZt8S http://t.co/9qsQ2otkFP
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Thunderstorm over Lake Erie. [OC] [1280×853] : WeatherPorn
Thunderstorm over Lake Erie. [OC] [1280×853] via /r/WeatherPorn http://t.co/bZqoJy5Vxw http://t.co/Yu7bIbRZN3
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Britain’s ‘forgotten war’ in the Pacific remembered – Al Jazeera English
Even after the Allied Forces declared victory in Europe in World War II, the battle to wrest control of Asia and the Pacific from the Japanese continued.
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Israeli army night raids spread fear in West Bank – Al Jazeera English
Bethlehem, occupied West Bank – “The young men nowadays do not sleep before the morning call to prayer,” says Ayed al-Azza, a father of four in Bethlehem’s Aida refugee camp. His own home has been raided at night by Israeli soldiers four times.
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Black Tusk, Garibaldi Park, BC (OC) [2048 x 1367] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/dNXY1cnY6n http://t.co/RQX598LnuU http://t.co/xsEU3sXA77
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Downtown Los Angeles at Midnight [2048×1067] [OC] : ExposurePorn
Downtown Los Angeles at Midnight [2048×1067] [OC] via /r/ExposurePorn http://t.co/HCKmkbTLfH http://t.co/csOQUuJtgb
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I am a recent father of twins. : aww
I am a recent father of twins. via /r/aww http://t.co/d0C1ckctor http://t.co/bCP3vJZsAL
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This is what news headlines look like when you live in Alaska. – Imgur
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me_irl via /r/me_irl http://t.co/QZ4CibAkMq http://t.co/baCjUXAukp
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Peace before the storm : Breathless
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Today I scanned some old Space photos, thought you may like them : space
Today I scanned some old Space photos, thought you may like them via /r/space http://t.co/IN1mvxcEaR http://t.co/FzOf4B5BtE
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Nishikori knocks Nadal out of Rogers Cup – Al Jazeera English
Kei Nishikori swept aside Rafa Nadal in the quarter-finals of the Rogers Cup in Montreal with a swift 6-2 6-4 victory, while world number one Novak Djokovic saved two match points before beating Latvian Ernests Gulbis.
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A 1890’s telephone tower. : pics
A 1890’s telephone tower. via /r/pics http://t.co/gUdODNiBdB http://t.co/sBmxatB0jH
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Ohshitohshitohshit via /r/funny http://t.co/o4dhXOo7kj http://t.co/SUKLvYz2Pb
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Barcelona stunned by Athletic Bilbao in Super Cup – Al Jazeera English
Aritz Aduriz’s second half hat-trick sent Barcelona spinning to a shock 4-0 defeat at Athletic Bilbao in the first leg of the Spanish Super Cup.
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Cambodian opposition senator arrested for Facebook post – Al Jazeera English
A prominent Cambodian opposition senator who angered Prime Minister Hun Sen with a Facebook post has been arrested and will be charged with treason, a government spokesman has said.
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Introducing ‘treeconomics’: how street trees can save our cities | Cities | The Guardian
Rustlings Road is aptly named. The street in Sheffield is lined with mature lime trees. Their whispering leaves are brilliant green in spring, then cast cool, dappled shade in summer and turn bright yellow in the autumn.
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I turned my boring old Redbull fridge into a Slurm one… : DIY
Read these guidelines before submitting: /r/DIY Guidelines New to reddit? Click here! Tips: If you’re asking for help, please give details. Pictures can help.
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Yo girl, are you a zero APR loan? : Jokes
Welcome to /r/Jokes! These are jokes. Some of them are old, and as such reflect the tone of the times. Some of them are new, and just as offensive. Unless it’s spam, it stays.
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Ferrofluid clock : interestingasfuck
Ferrofluid clock via /r/interestingasfuck http://t.co/oO5im03MS3 http://t.co/XvyU3qHSYx
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*** by rahgandhi77 http://t.co/J0rL7UKMda http://t.co/eTVrhadDOT
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The way it’s lined up : oddlysatisfying
The way it’s lined up via /r/oddlysatisfying http://t.co/HHBcyepPJI http://t.co/tb3UsKvQsJ
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My girl enjoying her trip to her grandmother’s. : cats
My girl enjoying her trip to her grandmother’s. via /r/cats http://t.co/TcLZPwTTeh http://t.co/vKxdNFjVAT
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Cat. via /r/CatsStandingUp http://t.co/jtfUkLjcix http://t.co/CpkFcWTqef
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Orion & red sprites photographed from the ISS on Aug. 10, 2015 : space
Orion & red sprites photographed from the ISS on Aug. 10, 2015 via /r/space http://t.co/BzrlK6rL81 http://t.co/Qtvz5Iju0q
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Hero Cat to the Rescue – Cat Fail! : StartledCats
Hero Cat to the Rescue – Cat Fail! via /r/StartledCats http://t.co/WxU9CccVPa http://t.co/5BnDlSmaxw
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The Perseid Meteor Shower and The Milky Way : natureporn
The Perseid Meteor Shower and The Milky Way via /r/natureporn http://t.co/0sbWWoS3IZ http://t.co/j5gy6pbohd
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San Simeon Sunset [3600×2400] [OC] : ExposurePorn
San Simeon Sunset [3600×2400] [OC] via /r/ExposurePorn http://t.co/Pr0tICm31u http://t.co/x4HzfPzOdx
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Black Tusk, Garibaldi Park, BC (OC) [2048 x 1367] : EarthPorn
Black Tusk, Garibaldi Park, BC (OC) [2048 x 1367] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/dNXY1cnY6n http://t.co/3DM8UO4kYw
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Sri Lanka Poll Offers Hope for Families of Missing | Al Jazeera America
In January, Maithripala Sirisena defeated Rajapaksa. He campaigned on a platform that rejected the hard-line nationalist policies of his predecessor, and the votes he gained in the former conflict areas were instrumental in his victory.
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Castro, Cuba and Catholicism: A Tangled Trinity | Al Jazeera America
In 1991 atheism was removed as a requirement for membership in the Communist Party in Cuba, and the Cuban Constitution was amended to redefine Cuba as a secular rather than atheist state. Fidel Castro began to speak more publicly about religion.
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Flaming Gorge, Utah : unitedstatesofamerica
Flaming Gorge, Utah via /r/unitedstatesofamerica http://t.co/R2MljHpRQY http://t.co/yqbdkj92Di
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5 Reasons Why You Should Hold Back Your Upgrade to Windows 10 : InternetIsBeautiful
5 Reasons Why You Should Hold Back Your Upgrade to Windows 10 via /r/InternetIsBeautiful http://t.co/nWsdMbyIG9 http://t.co/hfeArvDVZN
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Looking west across Riffe Lake [OC][5304 x 7952] : ExposurePorn
Looking west across Riffe Lake [OC][5304 x 7952] via /r/ExposurePorn http://t.co/saS2xIolwd http://t.co/SnPlXCysuL
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When Flanking goes right. : gaming
When Flanking goes right. (i.imgur.com)
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Like much of the rest of the country, President Obama is getting some downtime in August — in his case spending 16 days in Martha’s Vineyard.
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Prelude to Joy [1666×2000] [OC] : FractalPorn
Prelude to Joy [1666×2000] [OC] via /r/FractalPorn http://t.co/9qkffxZJnX http://t.co/DfxPPdYAFI
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Cat. via /r/CatsStandingUp http://t.co/Ut62SNDUd8 http://t.co/8tXWpry8ya
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Earth’s Methane History over the past 800,000 years [OC] : dataisbeautiful
Earth’s Methane History over the past 800,000 years [OC] via /r/dataisbeautiful http://t.co/qVQIvZWbzZ http://t.co/GQfx6UBt2W
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The Republican campaign: Jeb Bush affects joyfulness in Iowa | The Economist
IOWA is an easy state to mock. It is full of cornfields and its most famous annual festival, the Iowa State Fair, is an 11-day tribute to agriculture and over-eating best known for deep-fried food on sticks (including battered, deep-fried chunks of …
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Death Toll Climbs in China Blast | Al Jazeera America
A rapid succession of explosions late Wednesday — one equal to 21 tons of TNT — were sparked by a fire at what authorities said were shipping containers containing hazardous material at a warehouse, and they struck a mostly industrial zone late at n…
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Japan marks WWII anniversary amid criticism – Al Jazeera English
Japan has marked the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II amid criticism from neighbours China, South and North Korea, which bore much of the brunt of Japan’s militarist march.
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MRW the neck growth potion starts wearing off : shittyreactiongifs
MRW the neck growth potion starts wearing off via /r/shittyreactiongifs http://t.co/Ym1wBJefH7 http://t.co/gB3PyAmqXu
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It’s the little things in life : AdviceAnimals
It’s the little things in life via /r/AdviceAnimals http://t.co/vuBMMyyEb1 http://t.co/cXUKB6I11o
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Caught these three little guys with a local cat rescue today! : cats
Caught these three little guys with a local cat rescue today! via /r/cats http://t.co/QoEGJsb6dc http://t.co/bVQzngxhyZ
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I’m a little late to the party on this one, but nothing in recent months (outside the increasingly, and brilliantly, insane third season of Hannibal) has grabbed me as hard as as Netflix’s first attempt at putting together its own superhero TV show.
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The Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula – visible and infrared views : Breathless
The Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula – visible and infrared views via /r/Breathless http://t.co/Q5x1ozDOuX http://t.co/oYYIXzPzvC
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The look before the “butt wiggle and pounce” : cats
The look before the “butt wiggle and pounce” via /r/cats http://t.co/YzXT7QtQ0r http://t.co/vbZ8RyBVEx
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This is Dinkus. He was a blind cat I had the pleasure of owning. : cats
This is Dinkus. He was a blind cat I had the pleasure of owning. via /r/cats http://t.co/sGrwBn7MEV http://t.co/8q9lmhxCXx
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Cat. via /r/CatsStandingUp http://t.co/GKIolVadkI http://t.co/Fa413SkgYk
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This picture seems normal until you turn it upside down : interestingasfuck
This picture seems normal until you turn it upside down via /r/interestingasfuck http://t.co/2IChQIaFhk http://t.co/qNCNEnRIEX
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A street view of Tokyo [1280×853] : CityPorn
A street view of Tokyo [1280×853] via /r/CityPorn http://t.co/KmVgYeY5ib http://t.co/QHxB6lyeI8
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MEOW_IRL via /r/MEOW_IRL http://t.co/xMSXTazoi7 http://t.co/qnxAEZN4ni http://t.co/fONfRDA4wD
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Is it…alive? Taking a nap in the sun, I’d assume.
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Relatives grieve as China explosions death toll jumps – Al Jazeera English
The death toll from two huge explosions that tore through an industrial area in the northeastern Chinese port of Tianjin has risen to 85. The jump in the number of victims, which includes at least 21 firefighters, was reported by the the official Ch…
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[OC] Sweden divided into two equally populated areas : dataisbeautiful
[OC] Sweden divided into two equally populated areas via /r/dataisbeautiful http://t.co/HnwgjjzHs7 http://t.co/JMYJXYxiG5
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Fuck your lawn : firstworldanarchists
Fuck your lawn via /r/firstworldanarchists http://t.co/HTPEScY0qC http://t.co/pj7LnL0uWW
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MEOW_IRL via /r/MEOW_IRL http://t.co/xMSXTazoi7 http://t.co/vcT7k8vQKz
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working on my truck [4000×6000] : ExposurePorn
working on my truck [4000×6000] via /r/ExposurePorn http://t.co/2WzjjrME8f http://t.co/P7oXGoMmif
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The first of many via /r/funny http://t.co/YezD91uBux http://t.co/fyzWzp7Nsy
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APOD: 2015 August 14 – Comet Dust over Enchanted Rock
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.
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True love via /r/AnimalsBeingBros http://t.co/6Si7pr5Of2 http://t.co/56HfobdM1r
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This is the ultimate girl code. : TrollXChromosomes
This is the ultimate girl code. via /r/TrollXChromosomes http://t.co/HibHf9TEkq http://t.co/XK6B9HMpld
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The Atacama Desert at night [4000×2664] : spaceporn
The Atacama Desert at night [4000×2664] via /r/spaceporn http://t.co/HIZpXkWNUn http://t.co/JGtM87qLL4 http://t.co/dGLBAzU7qz
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The Atacama Desert at night [4000×2664] via /r/spaceporn http://t.co/HIZpXkWNUn http://t.co/JGtM87qLL4 http://t.co/dGLBAzU7qz
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Alan having a stretch via /r/cats http://t.co/XoHSpNaEJB http://t.co/KmsEBVIhiO
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Sunset ripples at Bruce Peninsula National Park [3283×2188] [OC] : waterporn
Sunset ripples at Bruce Peninsula National Park [3283×2188] [OC] via /r/waterporn http://t.co/O86NbI5UjC http://t.co/Tg1erOZifq
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Shhh.. Only dreams now : AnimalsBeingBros
Shhh.. Only dreams now via /r/AnimalsBeingBros http://t.co/6cmbKbnfhe http://t.co/xDADOKnM4A
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20 years reversed in only minutes : AdviceAnimals
20 years reversed in only minutes via /r/AdviceAnimals http://t.co/PeEW47Xxiq http://t.co/79ZjIAgkNT
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Tripod, my sister’s three-legged cat and his glorious blep : Blep
Tripod, my sister’s three-legged cat and his glorious blep via /r/Blep http://t.co/Ph22aVs0j6 http://t.co/xIRkPjehx8
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me_irl via /r/me_irl http://t.co/CJp7snCgsF http://t.co/gHfeP7Xx1V
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First official image from ‘Finding Dory.’ : movies
The picture of the little girl with the fish in the background. Is this the same place where Nemo was in Finding Nemo?
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Insects that may come to those who wait | Environment | The Guardian
The old proverb states that all things come to those who wait. That’s not been the case in our garden this year. Early on, there was talk of an invasion of painted lady butterflies. We raised our hopes.
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The Good Dinosaur Is Engineered to Make You Cry | WIRED
This is just a guess, but probably the first thing everyone thought when seeing the trailer for The Good Dinosaur was: “This one’s gonna hurt.
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This picture doesn’t seem too bad until you turn it upside down.. : creepy
Don’t be rude. New to reddit? Click here! In addition to reddit’s global rules, /r/creepy enforces the following: IF IT’S NOT CREEPY, DON’T POST IT. Insufficiently creepy submissions will be removed at moderators’ discretion.
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Hillary Clinton mocks email scandal as Democrat hopefuls meet the faithful | US news | The Guardian
In the historic Surf Ballroom on the shores of Clear Lake in northern Iowa, Democratic activists filled the room to its capacity of 2,100 to see four of the party’s five candidates for president each take turns touting their liberal bona fides.
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[NSFW] Red Rocket Loop via /r/perfectloops http://t.co/KygqhtdlgF http://t.co/2FicL21927
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me irl via /r/me_irl http://t.co/eEO78jPw6f http://t.co/qITNf9AZag
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Fuck you box. : firstworldanarchists
Fuck you box. via /r/firstworldanarchists http://t.co/8v6KH43atk http://t.co/dB4jmf7t0r
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Toy Story 4, The Rock and More Highlights From Disney’s D23 Animation Panel
When the toy army men rappelled from the ceiling to mark the end of Disney’s D23 Expo Animation and Pixar panel, it looked like an invasion. It sort of had been. An invasion of clips, stars and news from the upcoming slate of the company’s bread and…
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Arkansas Cuts Contracts With Planned Parenthood | Al Jazeera America
Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson on Friday canceled the state’s contracts with Planned Parenthood, making his the third Southern state to do so since anti-abortion activists released a series of videos that they say suggests the organization sells f…
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I’m Not Too Sure What Happened With This Hood Ornament | WIRED
Look around an auction where cars worth millions of dollars are up for grabs, and you’d expect most of them to be in sparkling condition—or, at least, clean.
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Sandy Beach Image, Vietnam – National Geographic Photo of the Day
In this picture by Your Shot member Ngan Phan, young women traverse a sandy beach after a day of work in Phan Rang–Thap Cham, Vietnam. This photo was submitted to Your Shot, our storytelling community where members can take part in photo assignments…
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Never change archer. http://t.co/fbLMjf8C5R http://t.co/ve0Eea8nNq
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Dancing Orchid | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Dancing Orchid by peter n mary http://t.co/0N84fVUl2s http://t.co/kjGzPJUXgq
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Two types of guys via /r/funny http://t.co/1gGsamWWDA http://t.co/xk5QN36KnC
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Iraq youth takes lead in anti-corruption protests – Al Jazeera English
Widespread corruption has led to massive demonstrations in Iraq, with youth groups the driving force behind a lot of them.
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Bob Dylan – Idiot Wind (New York Version 1974 Stereo) (See Corrected Re-upload) – YouTube
I live in Minnesota so I was able to obtain a copy of this gem. These songs were transferred from a near mint vinyl test pressing of the withdrawn early New York version of Blood On The Tracks. These songs were recorded in New York in 1974. Bob chan…
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This taxi gets it. : firstworldanarchists
This taxi gets it. via /r/firstworldanarchists http://t.co/h6wD5UBfcy http://t.co/jBiaxXq8jD
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2015.08 | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
2015.08 by BlacckSheeeeep http://t.co/7mF0r2euk0 http://t.co/bvylLPRdT5
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IMG_4607 Teton Range | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
IMG_4607 Teton Range by cmsheehyjr http://t.co/fKu0hTUM8B http://t.co/TpfIKTo3kT
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The Funky Fiat More Boat Than Car | WIRED
Look around an auction where cars worth millions of dollars are up for grabs, and you’d expect most of them to be in sparkling condition—or, at least, clean.
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Hillary Clinton and the tale of two phones – Al Jazeera English
It was supposed to be so much easier for Hillary Clinton. She had years to prepare for her moment. She had the team in place, the money raised and the vast network of supporters that is the back bone of team Clinton.
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Tying a tie (i.imgur.com)submitted just now by iBleeedorangeloading…
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Bob Dylan – Idiot Wind (New York Version 1974 Stereo) (See Corrected Re-upload) – YouTube
I apologize. Due to a video editing error, the last few seconds are cut-off. See corrected re-upload here: …
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Washing dishes for a party : oddlysatisfying
Washing dishes for a party via /r/oddlysatisfying http://t.co/aXzqnqQaS6 http://t.co/inMGsMvC6e
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Cable Car links La Paz to El Alto, Bolivia [1200×800] [OS] : CityPorn
Cable Car links La Paz to El Alto, Bolivia [1200×800] [OS] via /r/CityPorn http://t.co/53sWhYNy17 http://t.co/ZYFlJRS4hk
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Coworker went into labor. : AdviceAnimals
Coworker went into labor. via /r/AdviceAnimals http://t.co/owsbil9bOF http://t.co/jgGgwJXUvP
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Monty Python Ahead of Their Time : funny
Monty Python Ahead of Their Time via /r/funny http://t.co/hN0jUlYb5a http://t.co/b1lKcKe9Be
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Well, that settles that. : funny
Well, that settles that. via /r/funny http://t.co/oX1ejlVPli http://t.co/Tq7i0TGp8g
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Pollution fears following explosions at Texas chemical plant | US news | The Guardian
A series of explosions rocked an oil field chemical supply company north of Houston on Friday, setting off a fire that sent a broad, dense column of thick, black smoke towering into the sky. Authorities knew of no injuries from the explosions and bl…
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imgur 1000 years from now – Imgur
imgur 1000 years from now http://t.co/2eQJdchiZw http://t.co/6JrtBX0XBM
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The Lagoon Nebula js – Just Space
The Lagoon Nebula js http://t.co/efnRzQq3d3 http://t.co/hXsXeP1qAy
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State Of Mind | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
State Of Mind by Ziva_Amir http://t.co/agWXNq62xa http://t.co/DYnR9vUGlQ
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Lessons were learned, lines were drawn. : aww
Lessons were learned, lines were drawn. via /r/aww http://t.co/RAeCmOaQZt http://t.co/p9g5ZnYbsc
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Open thread for night owls: When black people stop saying black lives matter, they cease to matter
At The Nation, Melissa Harris-Perry and James Perry write—From New Orleans to Ferguson, a Decade of Asserting Black Lives Matter—We’ve learned that the moment black people stop saying our lives matter, our lives will cease to matter. An excerpt: Bla…
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A Filthy Ferrari Worth $350,000 | WIRED
Look around an auction where cars worth millions of dollars are up for grabs, and you’d expect most of them to be in sparkling condition—or, at least, clean.
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Too much curiosity via /r/lolcats http://t.co/OACa8I6fF6 http://t.co/dcgFLja1th
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Class and Race | MattBruenig : dataisbeautiful
Class and Race | MattBruenig via /r/dataisbeautiful http://t.co/dQUxp392jz http://t.co/QbO5nXGaPt
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My experience with being a young adult so far : AdviceAnimals
My experience with being a young adult so far via /r/AdviceAnimals http://t.co/G7hG9Odl9z http://t.co/xalrNATsMz
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Kirby, my first baby. via /r/cats http://t.co/XrvkdkyE6o http://t.co/Ynyq1CwnKi
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Twerk via /r/gif http://t.co/T4MoMBCeHn http://t.co/ThXwCtdpXK
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Inside Out Short Film Riley’s First Date Is All LOLs | WIRED
That means town, from Walt Disney Animation Studios’ 2016 movie, has neighborhoods for all kinds of animals. There’s Sahara Square, for jungle-loving types. There’s Tundratown, for creatures who like things a little colder.
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North Korea threatens to destroy South’s propaganda loudspeakers | World news | The Guardian
North Korea’s military on Saturday warned of imminent strikes on South Korean border units and issued fresh nuclear weapons threats against the US in response to what it called “grave” provocations from both.
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THE prime minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, has called an election for Oct. 19, but he doesn’t want anyone to talk about it.
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ISRO captures a photo of Mars’ moon Phobos : space
ISRO captures a photo of Mars’ moon Phobos via /r/space http://t.co/xelgGGj1Ea http://t.co/TG9nChAXGa
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Putting out vaulted ceilings to good use : cats
Putting out vaulted ceilings to good use via /r/cats http://t.co/2Qo8fDZkM0 http://t.co/L2aTgkUU88
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Do you ever wish you could get yourself even 1/5th as comfortable as your cat? : cats
Do you ever wish you could get yourself even 1/5th as comfortable as your cat? via /r/cats http://t.co/8sSskJQS1C http://t.co/CK8KZiyKXE
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I am going to continue saying ‘just,’ ‘actually,’ and other words that undermine my credibility
The firestorm that ensued after Ellen Leanse, former Google executive, wrote an article for LinkedIn about how women need to stop saying the word “just” made my blood boil. This prescription for increased credibility is not the only one of its kind.
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I’m at a conference, and won’t have an opportunity to post later. Also haven’t seen much new music lately. But for some reason I’ve been going back to this performance quite a lot, and I’ve only featured Quilt once. So here’s the 60s, reimagined:
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The theory of optimum currency areas is one of those old-fashioned pieces of macroeconomics — like IS-LM, the concept of the liquidity trap, and the theory of secular stagnation — that has turned out to be extremely relevant and useful to the world …
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This is a blog post about fanatical centrists, British debt history, and ponies.
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This lighting strike looks like an Alien beam : mildlyinteresting
This lighting strike looks like an Alien beam via /r/mildlyinteresting http://t.co/v61HIX15qy http://t.co/lk1ugVE8oW
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dusk light under cotton candy skies by Sarah Lee / 500px
dusk light under cotton candy skies by hisarahlee http://t.co/8E07mvhZyB http://t.co/yT9ZYhU5gz
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Mrs skeltal is shakin her booty! Updoot now to keep her wiggling! via /r/ledootgeneration http://t.co/Xyk9UB5LMY http://t.co/b6iEguMkeE
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Kittens & Baskets via /r/cats http://t.co/keNi9TOgIy http://t.co/KmbnJ1I2I6
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This is what news headlines look like when you live in Alaska. : funny
This is what news headlines look like when you live in Alaska. via /r/funny http://t.co/b4oHKvxexN http://t.co/Rm0W5HD6nv
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Michael Sam says he’s stepping away from football citing ‘mental health’ | Sport | The Guardian
Citing worries for his own sanity, Michael Sam – professional football’s first openly gay player – is walking away from the game again. He left the Canadian Football League’s Montreal Alouettes on Friday and said he is taking time away from the game.
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The Future Of Consumer Marketing Is Personal | TechCrunch
Today’s marketing industry is a long way from achieving its end-game of a system that delivers the perfect creative through the best medium at the optimal moment to each individual audience member.
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The independent Climate Change Authority is engaged in a public war of words with the environment minister, Greg Hunt, over the government’s assertion that “Labor’s climate policy” would impose a “$600bn carbon bill”, saying the claim is “weird” and…
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The Worldbuilding in Disney’s Zootopia Looks Amazing | WIRED
That means town, from Walt Disney Animation Studios’ 2016 movie, has neighborhoods for all kinds of animals. There’s Sahara Square, for jungle-loving types. There’s Tundratown, for creatures who like things a little colder.
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Aurora and the Moon at the South Pole [1920×1280] [OC] : auroraporn
Aurora and the Moon at the South Pole [1920×1280] [OC] via /r/auroraporn http://t.co/qBtYY6jmBD http://t.co/JIVlQpR0EK
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Red Fish by Madeline Brooks / 500px
Red Fish by maddieb http://t.co/OcSlK326ek http://t.co/lgcOBkPQ2P
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Overlooking the Susquehanna River Harrisburg, PA. [3264X2448] : EarthPorn
Overlooking the Susquehanna River Harrisburg, PA. [3264X2448] via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/E3akCD1M8M http://t.co/5qacsH7K8w
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“I didn’t make him…but he’s mine.” – Dog – Imgur
“I didn’t make him…but he’s mine.” – Dog http://t.co/GB7e8VhbGv http://t.co/DRVDdWoiOy
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Two leading American powers to drop Counter-Strike teams
Two of the most prominent esports organizations in America have now dropped their Counter-Strike: Global Offensive rosters, signaling what may be the biggest shakeup of the year in American Counter-Strike.
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US and Cuba spar over human rights after flag ceremony – Al Jazeera English
US Secretary of State John Kerry declared a new era in relations with Cuba as the Stars and Stripes flag was raised on the island, but stark differences remain between the two countries over issues such as democracy and human rights.
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The beer cans in this trailer : oddlysatisfying
The beer cans in this trailer via /r/oddlysatisfying http://t.co/eGJSZW4wlr http://t.co/0GkRst243f
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Environmental Peace Ecology is out! http://t.co/jHp21PlVVJ
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Marty sits like a lady via /r/cats http://t.co/yN7RU6arNQ http://t.co/kJthoY6AIm
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Sunset over Waitakere ranges [OC][2048×1536] : SkyPorn
Sunset over Waitakere ranges [OC][2048×1536] via /r/SkyPorn http://t.co/fHVWG5Oj9o http://t.co/N4KFM3B6oJ http://t.co/gjQfyC63Jm
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Bulldozer helps clear rocks : woahdude
Bulldozer helps clear rocks via /r/woahdude http://t.co/tZmg4LMrQW http://t.co/liZvvTsran
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Sunset over Waitakere ranges [OC][2048×1536] via /r/SkyPorn http://t.co/fHVWG5Oj9o http://t.co/N4KFM3B6oJ http://t.co/gjQfyC63Jm
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Fanged Blep via /r/Blep http://t.co/RbDrW69rF7 http://t.co/MnKCxzRRwa
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Indian Bar – Mt Rainier (1920×1080) : EarthPorn
Indian Bar – Mt Rainier (1920×1080) via /r/EarthPorn http://t.co/5fly7FMePJ http://t.co/4HJINpdCuQ
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Confederate statue stays put as University of Texas faces legal battle | US news | The Guardian
The University of Texas has canceled weekend plans to relocate a statue of Confederate president Jefferson Davis off the main campus after opponents asked a judge to block the move.
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In the Andes Mountains, A Long-Quiet Volcano Blasts Ash and Vapor
Today, 30 miles south of Quito, Cotopaxi—a volcano that first erupted in 1534, but has been quiet since the early 1940s until a few recent months of unrest—spewed plumes of ash and vapor.
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Early in the evening of July 4, Micaela Giles’s mobile phone started sounding alerts, and a series of messages straight out of a horror movie began scrolling down her screen.
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Trump mocks Paul, Fiorina and Bush at rally | TheHill
Donald Trump lashed out as his Republican presidential rivals at a campaign rally in New Hampshire on Friday evening. The real estate mogul and reality TV star mocked Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-Ky.) height, warned Carly Fiorina not to publicly challeng…
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Imgur users went on a real-life camping trip, then posted wild confessions
Imgurians are typically found in their natural habitat: making reaction GIFs and posting them on photo-sharing site Imgur. But sometimes, they venture into the wild—and according to the camp confessions that Imgurians are posting on the site, the em…
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Keeping False Pass True : Image of the Day
For three ice-free months a year, False Pass provides a shortcut for fishermen making their way between the Gulf of Alaska and the Bering Sea. This easternmost passageway—via Ikatan Bay, Isanotski Straight, and Bechevin Bay—is 70 km (37.8 nm) closer…
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Love me some pizza! – Meme on Imgur
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Sophia Loren. 1960’s. : OldSchoolCool
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I left my loaf in the bread maker a little too long : Catloaf
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Smoky Mountains [8256×2176] : EarthPorn
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In the sort of hilarious mishap that could happen to anybody who is now extremely fired from their job as a graphic designer or social media person, the official Hunger Games Twitter feed accidentally put out an image that appeared to label series s…
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Park spokeswoman Amy Bartlett said the cubs’ mother was killed in Montana because she ate part of hiker Lance Crosby, 63, and hid the rest of the body — an abnormal behavior for a female bear defending its young. Crosby died from traumatic injuries …
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First poster of the Incredibles 2 in Disney D23 Expo – Imgur
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Drake ‘Plagued and Pained’ in Open Letter Following Fatal Shooting | Rolling Stone
Drake has spoken out publicly for the first time following the August 4th OVO Fest after party shooting that left two dead and three seriously injured. “The last few days I have been in a moral bind,” the rapper wrote on his October’s Very Own blog.
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[OC] San Francisco 8/12/15 [6000×4000] : CityPorn
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This Tiny Princess Leia Rides a Rocking Speeder Bike
It’s been a long week. Enjoy a baby Princess Leia on her handmade rocking speeder bike. The bike is the creation of hero dad Tez_Gelmir, who documents the whole process on the maker site Instructables.
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Why Target began trolling its own customers
It all began when user Mike Melgaard posed as a Target customer service rep on Sunday. He was responding to commenters who were angrily posting to Target’s official page about the store’s decision to remove gender labels on certain children’s produc…
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HOWTO build an Endor Speeder Bike/rocking horse – Boing Boing
AKA, how to win parenting forever. My first consideration was strength and stability for the safety of the little ones, as though this project is for my 1y/o, I also have a 5y/o who no doubt will want a turn.
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US Will Not Release Hunger-Striking Gitmo Detainee | Al Jazeera America
Ba Odah’s case was seen by detainees’ lawyers as an indicator of how committed President Barack Obama is to his goal of transferring all the detainees and closing the Guantánamo facility before he leaves office.
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Most gorgeous foster puppy I’ve had so far. : aww
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Centaurus A* js http://t.co/nxi25wWTAB http://t.co/AzsegHvBlq
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strength lies in calmness by Siggi Tal / 500px
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Sunrise at Tunnel View, Yosemite, CA [3648×5472] [OC] : unitedstatesofamerica
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Sao Paulo, Brazil [1200×655] : CityPorn
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Meow IRL via /r/MEOW_IRL http://t.co/Ssfv1xQTm3 http://t.co/A9PxF2rcdl http://t.co/xUGkq2sKjH
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Meow IRL via /r/MEOW_IRL http://t.co/Ssfv1xQTm3 http://t.co/A9PxF2rcdl http://t.co/xUGkq2sKjH
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light heated loaf via /r/Catloaf http://t.co/tfkund0PJp http://t.co/RfJscEgJkV
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Meet the fox who visited the bathroom for a quick wash and brush up : foxes
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FOR California, there hasn’t ever been a summer quite like the summer of 2015. The state and its 39 million residents are about to enter the fifth year of a drought. It has been the driest four-year period in California history — and the hottest, to…
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Missouri police officer brags about spending ‘annual Michael Brown bonus’ | US news | The Guardian
St Louis County police are investigating a Facebook comment in which one of their officers appears to brag about the extra income he earned while working during protests in Ferguson which marked the one-year anniversary of the killing of Michael Bro…
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Obama Is #TeamSpotify, White House Releases Two #POTUSPlaylists | TechCrunch
The Commander and Chief has just made his music streaming service allegiances known. The White House released a pair of playlists Friday morning that were allegedly hand-picked by Obama himself. Were they on Apple Music?
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NBC is turning the Red movies into a TV show · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Wearily acknowledging that movies pretty much now only exist so that idea-strapped executives can turn them into TV shows a few years down the line, NBC has announced that it’s turning the Red film series—itself based off of a comic book by Warren E…
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The Rock just became Disney’s biggest hero | The Verge
Disney’s D23 Expo is like the company’s own in-house version of Comic-Con: the most hardcore fans show up to celebrate their love for the company’s movies and hear about what is in the works.
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Chelsea Manning – targeted for her her public persona? – Al Jazeera English
Lawyers for Chelsea Manning, the 27-year-old US Army private doing time at a military prison for leaking classified documents, say she is now facing indefinite solitary confinement for allegedly having an expired tube of toothpaste and a copy of the…
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NSBW by Babak Fatholahi / 500px
NSBW by surenabf http://t.co/ar1WjALqOL http://t.co/pHkz1QNLO2
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me irl via /r/me_irl http://t.co/7daJNGC12a http://t.co/JgpfUNkTuh
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Rice is Life. by Jacksparrow Apinchai / 500px
Rice is Life. by JacksparrowApinchai http://t.co/uVwObhvZ3a http://t.co/CGhprqiOUC
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The secrets of Obama’s presidential Spotify playlists, decoded
On Friday President Barack Obama released a pair of playlists on Spotify. It’s a weird thing for the president to do, especially when he doesn’t have to campaign for anything ever again.
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Blingee Is Dead, Long Live Blingee | WIRED
The site responsible for this sparkling homage to Drake is shutting down. That’s right, Blingee, a holdover of the MySpace era (sort of… it was founded in 2007, which actually feels astoundingly recent) is leaving us.
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In an extremely rare legal manoeuvre, the Obama administration has challenged a legal request to free a hunger-striking Guantánamo Bay detainee entirely in secret.
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Disney Announces Gigantic, Promises Definitive Version of Jack and the Beanstalk | WIRED
His participation in Into the Woods notwithstanding, Jack of beanstalk-growing fame doesn’t really have a movie of his own. Walt Disney Animation Studios is out to change that with Gigantic.
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Week in pictures: 8-14 August 2015 – BBC News
The Eurogroup agrees on a new bailout deal for Greece, which will now “irreversibly” remain in the eurozone.
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Flight Safety Attendant Really Loves His Job – Digg
Michael McAdam works for WestJet and knows how to work one of the harshest crowds: people who want to be anywhere except on a plane.
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Disney is trying to make a good version of Jack and the Beanstalk | The Verge
Disney has announced at its D23 convention that it is currently in production on a new animated version of the Jack and the Beanstalk fairy tale called Gigantic.
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Moon burials now cheaper than ever. “This week, the company Elysium Space announced they can send a portion of your cremated remains to the moon for prices starting at $11,950,” Popular Science reports.
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Turkey border guards accused of shooting Syrians – Al Jazeera English
Three Syrians trying cross the border into Turkey have been killed by Turkish border guards, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has reported.
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STARKVILLE, Miss. — She was a cheerleader, an honor student, the daughter of a police officer and a member of the high school homecoming court who wanted to be a doctor. He was a quiet but easygoing psychology student.
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San Francisco dreams up mean way to crack down on public urinators | Grist
Seattle has a smell at certain times of year, usually during the hot and dry summer months when people are out and about and there’s no rain to clear the air. It’s pungent, sometimes skunky, and it’s everywhere. I’m talking, of course, about urine.
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Chipmunk via /r/palatecleanser http://t.co/wmmtb1LoX7 http://t.co/GTiOQE66Zt
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Can Crush via /r/perfectloops http://t.co/KuvQJeSujs http://t.co/zLaf0pRjAt
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Red bug, anyone knows the species? [OC] [3283×1850] : AnimalPorn
Red bug, anyone knows the species? [OC] [3283×1850] via /r/AnimalPorn http://t.co/iUzLEdONvh http://t.co/fwRqv253lN
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Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Coke FRIDAY!
Note: Sunday is National Rum Day. Since it must be Sunday somewhere on earth already, I invite you to my Tiki hut with good buddy and tonight’s co-host Bacardi 151. Do say hi. We’ll be the ones in the corner making outrageous accusations at a lamp.
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Disney To Make Gigantic, the “Definitive” Jack and the Beanstalk Movie
When Disney takes on a fairy tale, its version tends to become the definitive version: Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, etc. At the D23 Expo, the company announced it is now working on what it hopes will be the definitive version of Jack an…
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Why Taylor Woolrich Wanted A Gun – BuzzFeed News
Taylor Woolrich was the top story of the afternoon on FoxNews.com. She could see the homepage, with her picture, on the laptop screen propped open in an airport food court. It was a personal photo, blown up and zoomed in. The quality was grainy.
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Who Killed Kayla Mueller? – The New Yorker
The revelation that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed caliph of the Islamic State, was repeatedly raping an American hostage, Kayla Mueller, comes just after the Times released a devastating story about the use of rape as a form of religious…
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Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture Is A Reeeeally Pretty Game
My hot take on the new exploration game Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture: It is ultra super good-looking.
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“A simpler time” : TrollXChromosomes
“A simpler time” via /r/TrollXChromosomes http://t.co/dKWAoQqyBH http://t.co/bBlGNYnkMG
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Just acting casual. via /r/cats http://t.co/S6TYAD31CI http://t.co/axCQ2fjQ0R
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Exploding Perseid Meteor [800 x 800] [OC]
Exploding Perseid Meteor [800 x 800] [OC] http://t.co/nHfgTctyfc http://t.co/XcXr80b4ET
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Problem? via /r/aww http://t.co/vGqThPCjQf http://t.co/cVjkwjCLzL
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How the Hell Did I Not Know About the Burrowing Owl?
It goes out during the day. It runs to catch its prey. And, as its name suggests, the burrowing owl lives in holes in the ground. And more and more of them are coming to America. The burrowing owl looks like your typical owl—maybe a bit longer in th…
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Rallies mark second anniversary of Egypt’s Rabaa attack – Al Jazeera English
Egyptian police has used tear gas to disperse small demonstrations in Cairo by supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi on the second anniversary of the killing of hundreds of protesters by security forces.
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Apple Shows Interest inSelf-Driving Car Test Site | Al Jazeera America
“It’s got all the infrastructure of a city,” Hall said of the facility. “There are buildings, streets and intersections, but no people.
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Roughly six seconds after ABC’s new version of The Muppets started garnering positive buzz for its blend of felt-based comedy and writer’s room shenaningans, NBC has leapt into action, commissioning a puppet-focused workplace comedy of its own.
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The two live-action films set in the Attack on Titan universe are finally coming to North America. Funimation announced today that Parts 1 and 2 will debut in the US and Canada on September 30th and October 20th, respectively.
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New York bans powdered alcohol | The Verge
New York today passed a law that bans the sale of powdered alcohol. A brand of powdered alcohol called “Palcohol” made headlines last year when it was approved for sale in the United States, only to later have that approval called a mistake and revo…
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I would be absolutely furious : AdviceAnimals
I would be absolutely furious via /r/AdviceAnimals http://t.co/A4LjqwIiSd http://t.co/GCkAgasf3Z
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Time in motion via /r/woahdude http://t.co/WRTC9AxqzY http://t.co/y9SNIZTThu
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Fat Cat [2048×1367] via /r/AnimalPorn http://t.co/J3TSs26wFz http://t.co/vFSuhom5qz
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Duck On Glass [OC] [2048×1384] : AnimalPorn
Duck On Glass [OC] [2048×1384] via /r/AnimalPorn http://t.co/GFNpUsU54c http://t.co/lIEBLluJf5
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World Trade Center (under construction 1971) : OldSchoolCool
World Trade Center (under construction 1971) via /r/OldSchoolCool http://t.co/N4Ov2x1Wx0 http://t.co/kuA1TOhP3H
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Upper Tama Lake, North Island [2048×1152] by Z : NZPhotos
Upper Tama Lake, North Island [2048×1152] by Z via /r/NZPhotos http://t.co/htHsQZBQzA http://t.co/cgDcueswq5
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Storm over Grand Junction, CO [2048×1367] : ExposurePorn
Storm over Grand Junction, CO [2048×1367] via /r/ExposurePorn http://t.co/YMzj16z2C0 http://t.co/KuKefngkuQ
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Inside the Colosseum, Rome [6751×2331][OC] : ArchitecturePorn
Inside the Colosseum, Rome [6751×2331][OC] via /r/ArchitecturePorn http://t.co/pKJ8N8IWpa http://t.co/86g9RdGpbb
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Sunset in Florence [3264×2448] [OC] : waterporn
Sunset in Florence [3264×2448] [OC] via /r/waterporn http://t.co/pyjECwCkC2 http://t.co/epBm83yjUm
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Medical researchers increasingly fear domestic terrorism in Planned Parenthood attack
A tag is a way to search for this diary. If someone is searching for “Barack Obama,” is this a diary they’d be trying to find? Use a person’s full name, without any title. Senator Obama may become President Obama, and Michelle Obama might run for of…
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The #CancelWendyWilliamsShow hashtag has a selective outrage problem
Wendy Williams skewering pop stars is about as natural as shade on a cloudy day. Social media went atwitter Thursday evening after Williams placed an unlikely figure within her infamous crosshairs: famed donut licker, America-hater, and “Break Free”…
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Talib Kweli Surprise-Releases Free Album, ‘F–k the Money’ | Rolling Stone
Talib Kweli Surprise-Releases Free Album, ‘F–k the Money’ Rapper releases capitalism-blasting title track alongside songs with Miguel, Patrick Stump and Styles P
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New compilation offers an epic reel of fighting game comebacks
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Here’s a Chemistry Set You’ll Actually Want to Experiment With
Chemistry sets used to be awesome. Today, a lot of them suck. But the kit pictured here (which, with 49 days left in its campaign, has already been successfully funded on Kickstarter) comes fully stocked with chemicals, equipment, and experiments.
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American Hostage Kayla Mueller Was Reportedly Kept as Sex Slave By Islamic State Leader | VICE News
Before Kayla Mueller, the 26-year-old American aid worker captured by the so-called Islamic State, was killed in February, she was reportedly repeatedly raped by the militant group’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who kept her in the home of one of h…
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This Ad for a Smart Ring Is So Bad, It’s Great | WIRED
Sonos makes objectively lovely speakers. But even the most compact, affordable, and unobtrusive model, the $199 Play:1, looks like what it is—a piece of consumer electronics. It comes in black or white with a metallic-gray grill, like just about eve…
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Here’s How Many People Die Each Day in China Because of Its Filthy Air | VICE News
Air pollution is killing about 1.6 million people every year in China, or nearly 4,400 people every day, accounting for seventeen percent of all the country’s deaths, a new study has found.
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Read This: The history of the American hamburger · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Once a working-class immigrant meal, the hamburger has risen in prestige to become the quintessential American dish. Or, as Drake might say, it started at the bottom and now it’s literally everywhere.
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Operation Inherent Resolve:A year of fighting ISIS | Al Jazeera America
The U.S. has also deployed about 3,550 troops to Iraq to train and support Iraqi soldiers in an effort to help them regain key cities lost to ISIL, such as Ramadi. A total of 11,000 Iraqi troops have been trained so far, with a goal of having 24,000…
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Here’s The Most Unintentionally Hilarious Scene From Last Night’s Under The Dome
So people often ask me, “Dome, what do you STAND for?” Like, they want to know what my core principle is. What are the foundations on which this Dome rests? And after last night’s Under the Dome, I have an answer: I’m all about polygamy, apparently.…
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WASHINGTON — One recent afternoon, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont gave another of the populist speeches that have drawn the largest crowds of
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A new and better way to pick rocks out of a field : interestingasfuck
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The custodian at work is one of us. : firstworldanarchists
The custodian at work is one of us. via /r/firstworldanarchists http://t.co/W44XWeFLlh http://t.co/4eyAEhj5Cd
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Marine biologists save sea turtle in harrowing video. And you won’t believe why
With an incredibly hard-to-watch video, a group of marine biologists inadvertently sent a powerful message about the use of disposable plastic and its damage on the environment. Marine biology Ph.D. candidate Christine Figgener was on a boat in Cost…
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BuzzFeed founder says unionizing would not be ‘great’ for company | US news | The Guardian
Unionization is appropriate for a factory setting but not right for a “global” and “new economy” company like BuzzFeed, founder and chief executive Jonah Peretti told staff this week.
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What Kristen Stewart’s revelation means for coming out in 2015
When Ellen Page came out publicly last year, the Internet had a heart attack. Many people who identified both as queer and sarcastic jumped for joy as the Juno star finally revealed, using no uncertain terms, that she was—big-time—gay.
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Those once-a-century food shortage events are about to get a whole lot more frequent. A new report from the US-UK Taskforce on Extreme Weather looks at what extreme weather events of the future are going to do our food supply and determines that by …
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Voters are already sick of this year’s election—and it’s not just because of Trump
Does anyone care that our election cycles are getting increasingly longer? If the Republican National Committee is to be believed, then the answer is no.
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io9 Newsstand: What Would You Do If The Government Was Monitoring Your Thoughts?
This week’s stories are about the things people will and won’t do for love, the monsters embedded in our skin and under the crust of the Earth, and the even worse horror waiting out there in the void. Serija knows what happens when she thinks the wr…
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Roadtripping man annoys his sister with seven hours of lip syncing
This is an epic display of top-notch lip syncing and world-class shade throwing. I smiled the whole way through this. Songs performed include Wannabe by The Spice Girls, The Sign by Ace of Base, Thong Song by Sisqo, and Orinoco Flow by Enya.
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Thousands of felons are the front lines of California’s forest fires | Grist
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Here’s a kind of crazy stat: Between 30 and 40 percent of California’s forest firefighters are state prison inmates.
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Meet the food justice and clean energy advocate who wants to shake up the nonprofit world | Grist
Diego Angarita Horowitz isn’t the first person to have noticed poor health outcomes in low-income communities of color, and how that relates to the inequitable distribution of healthy food. But he was pretty young when he did (barely 20).
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“Memory” by Joshua Barish : ImaginaryMindscapes
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Yosemite changed my life[oc][2000×2000] : Breathless
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“The South’s gonna do it again,” Klansmen in the South who are bitter over losing the War of Northern Aggression are fond of saying. But Florida just keeps doing it again and again and again–it’s like the Civil War and the last 200 years of progres…
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Homer Simpson presented James L. Brooks with a career achievement award · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Prolific producer and director James L. Brooks is one of the most consistently honored people working in Hollywood. He’s won Oscars, Golden Globes, and numerous other plaudits from organizations spanning the globe.
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Orphan Black’s Tatiana Maslany Opens Up About the Sexism She’s Faced in Hollywood | Vanity Fair
Orphan Black star Tatiana Maslany recently overcame one professional obstacle—earning her first Emmy nomination for her extraordinary work on the BBC America series, an impressive feat considering the Emmys don’t typically recognize sci-fi programs.
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Cartoon: Cut from the Clean Power Plan
A tag is a way to search for this diary. If someone is searching for “Barack Obama,” is this a diary they’d be trying to find? Use a person’s full name, without any title. Senator Obama may become President Obama, and Michelle Obama might run for of…
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Uber Isn’t Causing New York City’s Traffic Slowdown – The New Yorker
In a squabble with Uber last month, Mayor Bill de Blasio claimed that the ride-sharing company’s growing fleet of cars was choking New York City’s roadways and impeding traffic. He proposed—and then abandoned, after it proved extraordinarily unpopul…
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A Strong Argument Against Capital Punishment – The New Yorker
When the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the death penalty is unconstitutional in the state, it reckoned squarely with the kind of questions that citizens often ask and that legal cases seldom answer: Is capital punishment moral? Is i…
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MY Work/Rest Niche [2626×1750] [OC] : RoomPorn
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Atlantikwall checkup point, the Netherlands [3984×2241] : AbandonedPorn
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A slice of Midtown Boston, MA. [OC][1920×1920] : CityPorn
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The dude was high as fuck and didn’t think twice about buying it : AdviceAnimals
The dude was high as fuck and didn’t think twice about buying it via /r/AdviceAnimals http://t.co/He6mxPopeA http://t.co/iHqAjyIptt
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Snowshoeing in Sequoia : FoggyPics
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Perseids Still Stunning This Weekend
Robert Wick, photographer for the BLM, contributed this image to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Last night’s new moon made for perfect viewing of the Perseid meteor shower.
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Floods & Drought: NASA Satellites Map ‘Tale of 2 Countries’ in US
An artist’s illustration of the Global Precipitation Measurement Core Observatory satellite built by NASA and JAXA to measure the Earth’s rain and snow fall like never before. The satellite launched on Feb. 27, 2014 from Japan’s Tanegashima Space Ce…
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Lessons from Seoul’s Two Sharing Economies | TechCrunch
As a Fulbright grantee, I spent part of the last year researching the sharing economy in Seoul. One of my main findings? Korea actually has two. The first is small-scale, hyper local and socialist in flavor.
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This futuristic bar can get you drunk without serving a single drink
Getting drunk without actually drinking sounds like it would be close to impossible, but believe it or not, there’s a bar that specializew in just that very thing. It’s called Alcoholic Architecture, and once you set foot inside you’re well on your …
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Hillary Clinton’s server reportedly stored email about ‘top secret’ CIA drone strikes
The private server used by Hillary Clinton during her tenure as a secretary of state contained at least two emails with highly classified information, according to U.S. officials. One of the emails referenced secret U.S.
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Is Japan’s grief over WWII aggression profound enough? – Al Jazeera English
It was a carefully constructed statement, delivered on the eve of the 70th anniversary of Japan’s surrender to end of the Second World War. Speaking on Friday, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe acknowledged the “damage and suffering” inflicted on i…
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Robot Simulations Show Mass Extinctions May Accelerate Evolution
By simulating a mass extinction on a population of virtual robots, researchers have shown that these cataclysmic events are an important contributor to an organism’s ability to evolve, a finding that has implications to evolutionary biology, the bus…
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Americans can’t put down our cell phones—and it’s actually killing us
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s a rollercoaster coming right at you. That sounds like a nightmare scenario, but for one Cedar Point visitor, it was very real. Looking for a cell phone he misplaced, 45-year-old James A. Young reportedly leaped o…
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California May Be Home to a New Lone Wolf
Many old hard-rock mines—not just the one in Colorado that tainted a river with orange metallic waste—have pollution problems.
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Is This The Biggest Great White Shark Ever Filmed?
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5 Other Mines at Risk of Spilling Toxic Waste
Thanks to the nation’s 1872 Mining Law, taxpayers, not the industry, are responsible for cleaning up past mines. A new bill, the Hardrock Mining Reform and Reclamation Act of 2015, was introduced by a trio of Democratic Congressman to change that.
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L.A. Cougar Known for Crossing Freeways Killed by Car
The animal was photographed in a forest near Oregon, but state biologists await DNA confirmation. It would be only the second gray wolf known to cross into California since 1924.
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Visualizing a Wet, Hot (and Also Very Dry) American Summer
Thursday, August 13, is Earth Overshoot Day, when resource use is expected to outstrip the capacity for production—and it’s getting earlier every year.
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Desperately Seeking Queen Nefertiti
As they excavate the site, archaeologists search for clues about what caused an “insane” building boom in Stone Age Britain.
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Mt Cook New Zealand OC [4000×3000] : EarthPorn
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Number of fucks given by my cat about my Master’s degree? Zero. : TrollXChromosomes
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Bush torture comments worry human rights groups over possible resurgence | Law | The Guardian
Jeb Bush has come under fire from human rights groups after declining to rule out the US resuming the use of torture if he became president.
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The Ouija sequel has a director, won’t feature a Magic 8 Ball · Newswire · The A.V. Club
If there’s one thing Hollywood needs more of, it’s PG-13 horror sequels. Luckily, Mike Flanagan, writer/director of 2013’s Oculus, has signed on to direct the sequel to last year’s Halloween potboiler, Ouija.
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Health Officials Are ‘Deeply Concerned’ About the Spike in Fentanyl Deaths in Canada | VICE News
Canada’s federal health agencies say they are “deeply concerned” about the rise in fentanyl-related overdoses and deaths, as traces of the powerful painkiller are showing up more and more often in street drugs. In a joint statement released on Thurs…
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We Thought Mobile Ads Were Doomed. Now It’s a $32B Business | WIRED
The internet runs on ads. And now that our phones are our online everything, the mobile ad business is booming. The global mobile advertising industry grew 65 percent last year, according to a new report from the Interactive Advertising Bureau. It w…
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Lana Del Rey’s new album is coming in September · Newswire · The A.V. Club
There’s not much more you can do with a career in music once James Franco writes a book about you, but as Lana Del Rey isn’t already dead, she might as well keep putting out albums.
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Apparently, today is “things to terrify the reader” day here at Great Job, Internet! This latest entry proves how far technology has come. Previously, if someone had a weird dream about Sonic The Hedgehog, they would simply bore a friend by relating…
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US government investigated journalists 14 times during 2014 | US news | The Guardian
A Justice Department report says the US government questioned, arrested or subpoenaed journalists 14 times during 2014, including the high-profile subpoena issued to New York Times reporter James Risen.
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My Planet from Space: UN Photo Exhibit Showcases Earth’s Stunning Beauty
NEW YORK — While wandering through a maze of vividly detailed depictions of Earth’s surface currently on display here at the United Nations Headquarters Visitors’ Lobby, a viewer might mistake the images for abstract art.
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Greek Coast Guard Accused of Sinking Migrant Boat | VICE News
VICE News is closely watching the international migrant crisis. Check out the Open Water blog here. According to the fishermen talking in the video, officials from the Greek coast guard pierced the inflatable boat, which was carrying 50 Syrian migra…
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Chinese theme-park queue-jumping techniques – Boing Boing
Mostly they come down to “pretend you don’t know it’s a queue”; have the old people in your group pitch a tantrum; have the kids in your group go to the front, then “catch up” and board — from a 2010 issue of In Park magazine: Screaming Old Man – T…
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Watch Kim Kardashian Confront Caitlyn Jenner Over Her Vanity Fair Cover | Vanity Fair
Earlier this summer, Caitlyn Jenner made her debut to the world on the cover of Vanity Fair.
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Gawker A Guide to the Christian Vlog Community Where the Biggest Blessing Is a Baby | Jalopnik Adventure Testing The $10 Wal-Mart Multitool: What Could Go Wrong? | Kotaku The League Of Legends Championship Series Has Its First Woman Player | Lifehac…
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Danish FM weighs into Swedish ‘racist-plaster’ debate – Al Jazeera English
Denmark’s foreign minister has stepped into a debate in Sweden on whether the lack of plasters in other colours than beige are upholding a racist “whiteness norm,” saying he is “glad he doesn’t live in Sweden”.
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Last week on a particularly hot summer day my 12-year-old daughter and her friend decided to avoid the outdoors and spent the afternoon coloring the pages of Fantastic Cities.
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Lovin’ their elevator: why Germans are loopy about their revolving lifts | World news | The Guardian
As the paternoster cabin in which he was slowly descending into the bowels of Stuttgart’s town hall plunged into darkness, Dejan Tuco giggled infectiously.
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The N.W.A Flowchart — Cuepoint — Medium
Before the Wu-Tang Clan or the Native Tongues, rap’s most extensive dysfunctional family was Compton’s N.W.A. Gracing the cover of its debut album, N.W.A. & The Posse, are twelve gentlemen. Among them are each of the group’s core members — Eazy-E, D…
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How Clinton’s team went from nonchalant to nervous over e-mail controversy – The Washington Post
Late last month, Hillary Rodham Clinton stood before a line of television cameras at a rural Iowa campaign stop to deny reports that she had sent sensitive information over her private e-mail system.
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Meet the Star of the Donald Trump Porn Parody | Maxim
America had a collective chuckle when Donald Trump announced his candidacy. Then we realized that—despite his uncouth behavior, toupée, and derogatory comments about women and immigrants—he’s currently the GOP frontrunner. The idea of a Trump Admini…
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The abandoned Hiort Island, Scotland [611×611] : AbandonedPorn
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The Iris Nebula in a Field of Dust js – Just Space
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Office Has Cat Library! Employees Can ‘Check Out’ Cats To Take To Their Desk : cats
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Leo thinks he’s hiding! : cats
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Lake Wakatipu, New Zealand [1080×1920] [OC] : EarthPorn
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Cathedral of Santa Maria, Florence, Italy [3264×2448] [OC] : ArchitecturePorn
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Hobb Reveals His Master Plan In A New Clip From The Humans Finale
It’s not looking good for humanity’s A.I. creations in AMC’s Humans. They’ve been captured and at the mercy of Professor Hobb, and it’s up to the Hawkins family to come to their rescue.
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Jenna Bush Hager, George W Bush’s daughter, gives birth to second child | US news | The Guardian
Jenna Bush Hager and her husband have welcomed their second daughter. Former president George W Bush said in a statement that Poppy Louise Hager was born Thursday in New York. She is named after Jenna’s grandfather, former president George HW Bush, …
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Jeb Bush declines to rule out use of torture as president – video | US news | The Guardian
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush refuses to rule out the US resuming the use of torture if he were to become president.
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Nicolas Cage has some thoughts on the state of modern film criticism · Newswire · The A.V. Club
It may not surprise you to learn, given how much of it he’s received over the years, that Nicolas Cage has some thoughts on the state of modern film criticism.
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Jeb Bush may be languishing at only 4% in the polls in Iowa, but the Republican presidential candidate was received as a celebrity at the Iowa state fair on Friday.
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8 Truly Good Things That Happened This Week — The Cut
Did this week drag on forever, or did this week drag on forever? Here are eight actually good things that happened this week, to help you get through your last few hours of the work week. 1. A British couple got married after their guide dogs fell i…
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Why do we turn the music down when parking? — Hopes&Fears — flow “Question”
I’m not sure how frequently people turn the music down while parking, but it’s not a bad thing to do from a multitasking perspective. Research has shown that people have limited “mental resources” to dedicate to tasks they’re working on.
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Toy Story 4 will be a love story between Woody and Bo Peep · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Romance has always been secondary to friendship in the Toy Story franchise. Sure, Buzz and Jessie got some sweet moments, Ken and Barbie’s relationship was enjoyably turbulent, and Mr. and Mrs.
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MY mother and her 17 brothers and sisters had an Orthodox upbringing — all photographs of their father show him wearing a yarmulke, and I was told that he woke up if it fell off during the night. My father, too, came from an Orthodox background.
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Kids sue Obama over climate change | Grist
A new lawsuit filed against President Obama and a handful of federal departments and agencies condemns the government for supporting the fossil fuel industry in the face of a changing climate. The plaintiffs? A group of 21 children aged 8–19, mostly…
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It turns out we’ve been trying to control the weather since forever | Grist
Don’t let the recent hype around geoengineering fool you — our attempts to control the world’s weather and climate way, way predate our current climate crisis.
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The pork industry is full of this drug you’ve never heard of | Grist
Like little kids trying to show you their karate moves, food labels will do anything to get your attention.
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If you buy just one 1940s celluloid caterpillar thimble holder – Boing Boing
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Boston Red Sox manager John Farrell says he has ‘very treatable’ cancer | Sport | The Guardian
Boston Red Sox manager John Farrell says he has a “very treatable” form of cancer. Farrell said Friday that he would take a medical leave to deal with lymphoma.
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Showtime’s David Nevins also thinks there’s too much good TV · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Have you ever wondered how that one person on your Facebook feed is able to watch every scripted series, from NBC all the way to WGN America, in addition to drinking craft beer at warmly lit bars, eating delicious meals at artisanal restaurants, and…
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Why is This Block of Plutonium Glowing Like an Ember?
This block of plutonium appears to be glowing like a hot coal. Not a good sign! The glow is due to a property called pyrophoricity. A pyrophoric material will burst into flames when it comes into contact with everyday materials like water and oxygen.
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MissTravel Will Find A Sugar Daddy To, Uh, “Sponsor” Your Vacation | TechCrunch
Ever wanted to travel to an exotic island for a week but didn’t have the cash? Well, thanks to MissTravel, that’s not a problem anymore — if, and it’s a big if, you’re a young, attractive woman who’s willing to swipe right on a lonely, wealthy trave…
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US states with the highest levels of gun ownership are also the ones where police officers have the highest risk of being killed in the line of duty – the vast majority by gunfire, a study has shown.
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An American Flag in Cuba – The New Yorker
The U.S. Embassy in Cuba reopened with a flag-raising ceremony earlier today, fifty-four years after the Embassy closed in one of the angriest standoffs of the Cold War.
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DC Is Planning a Sitcom That’s “The Office with Superheroes”
All we know so far is that it’s a half-hour comedy set at an insurance office, and rather than featuring big-name heroes like Superman and Batman, it’ll focus on ordinary people living in a superhero world.
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5 Things We Learned From the ‘Point of No Return’ Climate AMA | Rolling Stone
Eric Holthaus’s recent Rolling Stone article, “The Point of No Return: Climate Change Nightmares Are Already Here,” has clearly struck a chord, reaching millions of readers and advancing the conversation about the disastrous effects of our warming p…
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Animas River Reopens for Boating | Al Jazeera America
Officials in Colorado on Friday reopened the Animas River to boating about a week after 3 million gallons of contaminated wastewater laced with heavy metals spilled into the popular waterway.
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Greece’s Euro Partners Approve Billions in Loans | Al Jazeera America
“On this basis, Greece is and will irreversibly remain a member of the euro area,” said European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker after the deal was sealed.
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Miguel – Crazy Enough on Vimeo
When YT was just a glimmer in our eye, back in 2008, we shot a young hopeful in San Pedro. He took us by his house, told us about his family. He was stuck, then, in a contract with a label that wanted him to be somebody different. He was busy holdin…
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I Watched the Bear Cam for Eight Hours Straight – The Awl
9:07 AM: I’ve committed to watching the bear cam for eight hours. The bear cam is a National Parks Service-run twenty-hour live feed of one tiny section of Alaska’s Brooks River, where brown bears often are found hunting for salmon in the summer.
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The Mystery of the Missing Socks…Solved! : cats
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Read This: Kenner’s abandoned 1985 Star Wars toy line · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Earlier this week, Entertainment Weekly released exclusive stills from The Force Awakens and a black X-Wing fighter could clearly be seen in the background. It’s no secret that J.J.
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Potus playlist: Barack Obama shares his favorite summer tracks on Spotify | US news | The Guardian
If playlists on streaming-media services are the future of music discovery, then why shouldn’t the president of the United States get in on the action? On Friday the White House’s newly refreshed Spotify account gave listeners the opportunity to get…
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Take a pretty picture. Slap some inspirational words on it. Post it on Facebook, then swim in a river of likes. If this is a thing you do, be afraid: you have been replaced by a robot. A wonderfully random, terrifyingly sentient robot.
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Here’s your first look at Lego’s new WALL-E set
In Japan, people hold funerals for robot dogs when they conk out. In North America, four out of five Roomba owners name their robot vacuum cleaners. In pop culture, R2-D2 is arguably the most beloved Star Wars character. There are reasons we have th…
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This flower doesn’t care what ‘normal’ is : firstworldanarchists
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Leader of ISIS Reportedly Raped American Hostage — NYMag
Kayla Mueller, an American held hostage by ISIS for more than two years until her death in February, was repeatedly raped by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State. Just the thought of you all sends me into a fit of tears.
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Slack Decides Not To Kill Email For A Little While Longer, Integrates It Instead | TechCrunch
Slack! The email killer! It’s going to kill email! Welp, not today.
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Samsung Looks to Join the Satellite Internet Space Race | WIRED
Samsung is the latest company eyeing satellites as the best way to expand the reach of the internet to the billions of people without access.
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Teen model with Down syndrome will walk in New York Fashion Week
Down syndrome hasn’t stopped Madeline Stuart from becoming a model and now her hard work has paid off in a big way: She’s walking in New York Fashion Week. The 18-year-old Australian made a splash earlier this year when her modeling photos on Facebo…
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Gwendoline Christie’s costume in ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ is mind-blowingly great
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No, Apple’s Project Titan wasn’t ‘confirmed’ to be a self-driving car
A new report from The Guardian claims to have documentation that “confirms” Apple is working on a self-driving car. In the report, Apple is found to be in discussion with a facility that is fashioned like a makeshift city.
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NFL issues memo reminding players to avoid fighting | Sport | The Guardian
The NFL warned teams about fighting during games in response to inter- and intra-team altercations that have erupted in training camp, including the one that left New York Jets quarterback Geno Smith with a broken jaw.
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Two more Greenpeace protesters accused of trying to stop a Royal Dutch Shell icebreaker from leaving Portland, Oregon, for an Arctic oil-drilling operation were fined $5,000 by the Coast Guard, officials said Friday.
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Deadpool: Paws Proves Deadpool Can Really Work Outside A Comic Book
The idea of a Deadpool novel is exactly as strange as it sounds: how can one of comics’ most comic-booky heroes work in a medium that’s so completely different? But what’s even stranger is that Deadpool: Paws actually works … when it stops trying …
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San Francisco Giants recreate the ‘Full House’ intro and it’s beautifully staged
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Social Security reaches a strong 80, but its future depends on 2016
A tag is a way to search for this diary. If someone is searching for “Barack Obama,” is this a diary they’d be trying to find? Use a person’s full name, without any title. Senator Obama may become President Obama, and Michelle Obama might run for of…
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Turn code into cloth with this cool pattern generator
If you’re the kind of person who loves to mix geekery with crafting, then you’ll definitely get a kick out of a website that combines both beautifully. 64 Stitches is an application that uses a basic code framework to crate a textile pattern within …
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awake craniotomy with singing and talking – YouTube
I’m a professional opera, concert and choral singer that was diagnosed with a brain tumour (a GBM as it turned out). The neurosurgeon’s advice was to do an awake craniotomy so that I could sing during the surgery (on June13th 2014) in order to avoid…
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Apes may be closer to speaking than many scientists think
Koko the gorilla is best known for a lifelong study to teach her a silent form of communication, American Sign Language. But some of the simple sounds she has learned may change the perception that humans are the only primates with the capacity for …
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The 25 highest-paid Major League Baseball players in 2015 : dataisbeautiful
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Milky Way over Monument Valley by Gavin Heffernan… – Just Space
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Khumbu region of Nepal – breathtaking mountains : Breathless
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Breathtaking sacred architecture : Breathless
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Florence, Italy [5121×2418] [OC] : CityPorn
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Science Fiction Western with splashes of horror – Meme on Imgur
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PLAINS, Ga. — Here, just beyond the welcome signs with the presidential seal, people still call him “Mr. Jimmy.”
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The Coca-Cola Company, which has suffered a large decline in consumption of sugary sodas as consumers worry about obesity, has formed a new organization to emphasize exercise as the best way to control obesity and to play down the importance of cutt…
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Details of the deal between more than 300 plaintiffs and Arab Bank weren’t disclosed. It came three days before the damages phase of the case was scheduled to go to trial in federal court in Brooklyn.
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Los Angeles: the City of Angels and Oil Wells | Al Jazeera America
LOS ANGELES – Biniyam Asnake, 16, doesn’t know much about one neighbor in his South Los Angeles neighborhood. “They are kind of secretive. They have high walls, so a lot of people don’t know they are here,” he said.
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War on women, war on liberty? – Al Jazeera English
In this episode of Head to Head, Mehdi Hasan challenges Naomi Wolf, one of the world’s best-known feminists and author of the seminal book The Beauty Myth, on where the feminist movement is headed, and whether her controversial latest writings are f…
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Week in Fashion: Kristen Stewart and Dakota Johnson Go for the Deep-V | Vanity Fair
We had a total double-take moment when the reigning queen of T-shirt-and-jeans stepped out onto Jimmy Fallon’s stage in this pretty Diane von Furstenberg playsuit—complete with plunging neckline.
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Hurricane Katrina and the Revival of the Political Athlete | The Nation
If there was ever a moment that signaled how little black lives mattered to people in power, it was in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. This is not a novel observation by any means.
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Today thousands of children are paying the price, a investigation has found. They are trapped at Campbell Park, Fairmount Park, Lakewood, Maximo and Melrose — five neighborhood elementary schools that the board has transformed into failure factories.
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Slacklining 1000 feet in the air without safety ropes
Are your palms dry? Do you wish they were soaked with sweat right now? Then you should definitely watch Spencer Seabrooke walk on a slack line across a 210-foot gap almost 1000 feet in the air without any ropes or safety harnesses.
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Jordan Spieth insists he won’t feel fatigue as he chases third major | Sport | The Guardian
Jordan Spieth has insisted the chance to claim another major title will override any sense of tiredness towards the end of this, a remarkable season for the 22-year-old.
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Star Wars Great Job, Internet! Aug 14, 2015 3:00 PM It’s
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Killer no-wave LP reissue by Lizzy Mercier Descloux – Boing Boing
In the late 1970s, Parisian poet, artist, and singer Lizzy Mercier Descloux made the downtown New York scene with peers Patti Smith and Richard Hell. Descloux’s music melded no wave, disco, and minimalism into a funky, dissonant groove. Yes, you can…
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Nebia is the smart shower head that pays for itself
Want to shower the way Tim Cook does? Well you have some weird wishes, but you can fulfill them with Nebia, the new water-saving shower head that’s attracting some of the biggest names in tech. Showering is one of the biggest culprits of energy and …
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Teletubbies do Die Antwoord’s “I Fink U Freeky” – Boing Boing
Robert Jones’s Die Antwoord/Teletubbies mashup turns a troubling childhood memory into an even more troubling one. This makes Teletubbies getting spattered with pink goo seem even more freeky.
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Kentucky Clerk Has Until Monday To Justify Refusal Of Same-Sex Marriage Licenses | VICE News
A US federal judge has given Kentucky County Clerk Kim Davis a deadline to justify her refusal to issue marriage licenses to gay couples after rejecting her previous attempt to get a religious exemption.
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Frat boy’s hazing memoir could become TV series, movie · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Because news outlets just aren’t providing enough coverage on how terrible hazing is, Deadline reports that there’s a new project brewing based on a whistleblowing memoir by a former frat boy.
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Cobie Smulders in talks for Jack Reacher 2 · Newswire · The A.V. Club
The Tom Cruise-starring action movie Jack Reacher initially looked like it wasn’t a big enough bang to spark a franchise. But like a Tom Cruise character punching his way back into relevance, Jack Reacher 2 became possible against all odds.
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The parents of the late American hostage Kayla Mueller say they were told by American officials that their daughter was repeatedly forced to have sex with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State group. A US official confirmed the accou…
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Donald Trump porn parody is amazingly self-aware
This article contains explicit material and may be NSFW. Thank god: Somebody has finally made a Donald Trump porn parody.
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We Should Not Dismiss the Dangers of “Killer Robots” So Quickly
Earlier this summer, more than a thousand prominent thinkers and specialists signed an open letter calling for a ban on autonomous killing machines. Since then, a number of critics have condemned the motion, citing it as both dangerous and useless.
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Bear Bile Farms in Vietnam Are Making Animals Blind, Sick, and Obese | VICE News
Seven hundred bears have died this year on bear bile farms in Vietnam,due to starvation or infection, according to Animals Asia. And Jill Robinson, founder of the organization, estimates that more than 12,000 bears are kept on bear bile farms in Chi…
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Ex-Employees: Kaspersky Tricked Competitors for Years | Motherboard
Here’s one unsportsmanlike way to stop competitors from riding on your coattails: sabotage.
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Watch Foo Fighters Enlist Fan to Cover Rush’s ‘Tom Sawyer’ | Rolling Stone
Ever since 1973, when the Who called up a fan-drummer to replace Keith Moon (after he passed out from horse tranquilizers and brandy), rock audiences have been pining for the next great Cinderella concert moment.
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On June 8th, I had the honor of accompanying then-Greek finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, to a private meeting in Berlin with the German finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble.
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West Wing Week: 8/14/15 or, “That’s Why We Do What We Do” on Vimeo
This week, we sat down with senior administration officials to take a look back at some of the history-making moments of recent months that illuminated the fabric of America.
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Before her death earlier this year, American hostage Kayla Mueller was repeatedly raped by the top leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, according to counter-terrorism officials.
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How Can We Fight Currency Manipulation To Regain Jobs?
China had been setting a too-low exchange rate for their currency, thereby exporting unemployment. Then early this week their bank made a move and the currency plunged. The next day another plunge, then another.
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The Techknow Chronicles IV | Al Jazeera America
Working at TechKnow has been really, really cool. Everyone is overwhelmingly nice to me, no matter how many times I break the copy machine. My boss Roland, (the fella in the picture above) has inspired me to cultivate my voice with this blog.
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The SyFy Channel Is Bringing 4 Awesome Sci-Fi Books to TV Soon
A still from the trailer of “Childhood’s End,” a six-hour SyFy Channel event based on a novel by famed science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke. It will debut on Dec. 14.
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The 11 Best Performing Tech IPOs Of The Last Year | TechCrunch
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Bear Bile Farms in Vietnam Are Making Animals Blind, Sick, and Obese. So We Visited One. | VICE News
Seven hundred bears have died this year on bear bile farms in Vietnam,due to starvation or infection, according to Animals Asia. And Jill Robinson, founder of the organization, estimates that more than 12,000 bears are kept on bear bile farms in Chi…
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Kaspersky blames allegations of corporate sabotage on ‘disgruntled ex-employees’
In a Reuters article published Friday morning, two former employees accused the company of “classifying benign files as malicious” in an attempt to sabotage other antivirus software developers.
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Here’s the Official Plan If One of America’s Least Popular Banks Loses Its Funding | VICE News
More than 80 years after its founding, the Export-Import Bank of the United States — instituted under President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal to help American companies sell their good overseas — may be on the verge of shutting down.
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CoverGirl reveals ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ makeup collection
In September, the Force will be strong in the cosmetics department thanks to a new CoverGirl makeup collection inspired by Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
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Excerpted with permission from The Disaster Profiteers: How Natural Disasters Make the Rich Richer and the Poor Even Poorer, by John C. Mutter. Available from Palgrave Macmillan Trade. Copyright © 2015.(Scientific American and Palgrave Macmillan are…
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Same-sex marriage ruling backlash losing steam as judges uphold the law | US news | The Guardian
Two months after same-sex marriage became legal nationwide in a landmark supreme court decision meant to resolve the issue once and for all, lower court rulings and legal threats around the country are slapping down one attempt after another to resi…
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Check out the President’s summertime playlists · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Music Great Job, Internet! Aug 14, 2015 2:15 PM In search of some hot tracks to amp up your summer fun? Well, look no further, because DJ Barack Obama has got your back. Earlier this morning, the White House unveiled two different playlists on Spoti…
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Rights group seeks AU probe into Somalia wedding deaths – Al Jazeera English
Human Righs Watch (HRW) is demanding an independent investigation into the alleged killing of six men at a wedding party in Somalia by African Union troops from Uganda. Witnesses told the US-based rights group that men were separated from women duri…
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25,000 Indian Farmers Are Threatening to Kill Themselves Tomorrow | VICE News
Farmers in India are demanding compensation from their government for ruining their farmland — and they are putting their lives on the line.
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The Original Paleo Diet Was Full of Carbs | MUNCHIES
You know the deal by now: the Paleo diet is based on the premise that we should only eat what our cave-dwelling ancestors had immediate access to, like meat, fish, fruits, vegetables, and nuts.
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Al Gore for president? People are talking | Grist
In an alternate universe, Al Gore won the 2000 presidential election, we have a successful cap-and-trade program, everyone has solar panels on their roofs, the sea levels are stable, and Brad is still with Jen. In this universe, George W.
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CHILMARK, Mass. — President Obama’s musical tastes are still very much old-school. Halfway into his two-week summer vacation on Martha’s Vineyard, Mr. Obama on Friday released his first-ever Spotify playlists, sharing a 20-song “daytime” list and an…
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week : Longreads Blog
Below, our favorite stories of the week. Kindle users, you can also get them as a Readlist. Sign up to receive this list free every Friday in your inbox.
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After watching an episode of “Doomsday Preppers” – Imgur
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Forgot to Charge my cat : lolcats
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T-shirt extols the best response to Twitter trolls – Offworld
Getting harassed on Twitter? Not sure how to respond? Deep down, you know what to do. And so does this shirt.
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Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no Basis for a system of government – Imgur
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Gadget Lab Podcast: Showering Praise on Technology | WIRED
Samsung has two new devices coming out; a pair of oversize phones from the Galaxy line, the S6 Edge Plus and the Note 5. Well, there are actually three devices if you count the snap-on physical keyboard the company also announced this week. But Davi…
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Two children camping at Yosemite killed after tree limb falls on tent | US news | The Guardian
Two children were killed when a tree limb fell on their tent at Yosemite national park in California, the US national park service says. The limb fell from an oak tree at Upper Pines campground in the Yosemite Valley at approximately 5am on Friday.
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DIY-loving dad builds a ‘Star Wars’ rocking toy for his adorable daughter
Proving that Star Wars fans make the best parents, a geeky dad used his love of DIY projects to give his daughter the best rocking toy ever.
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This Music Video Is Made To Be Watched On Your Phone | WIRED
We didn’t care for Tokyo’s Olympics logo when it was unveiled earlier this week. Now, it appears that the design has a bigger problem than just uninspired design; it bears a striking similarity to another logo.
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Photovoltaic Prices Drop for 5th Straight Year – Scientific American
The installed price of distributed solar power fell by 40 cents per watt for U.S.
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United Nations officials are facing pressure to revisit their unpaid internship policy after an intern who had been living in a tent near Lake Geneva resigned and called for “interns all over the world” to unite in a fight for their rights.
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ARLINGTON, Tex. — Officer James Bradley Miller was not a typical rookie in the Police Department here. At 49, he was six years older than the chief. He discovered law enforcement relatively late in life, after struggling for decades in an array of j…
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DONALD TRUMP’S economic views may not have garnered as much attention as his misogynistic statements, but they are equally unpalatable, evincing a lack of understanding of basic economics that is startling for a billionaire businessman. While Mr.
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Guitar being carved into the head of a pencil : gif
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Stop! Hammertime! by Dmitry Miroshnikov / 500px
Stop! Hammertime! by namgul http://t.co/pvL3qchdnC http://t.co/owAQuk7tiH
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Training Your Cat via /r/cats http://t.co/QkMuPVnBAn http://t.co/U3X4Zwz8DL
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My friend is always told he looks like Robert Pattinson. He recently decided to embrace it. – Imgur
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I feel it working : firstworldanarchists
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Taken Just Outside of Steam Valley, PA : FoggyPics
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Incredibles 2, Toy Story 4, And Cars 3 Posters On Display At D23 | Comicbook.com
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25,000 Indian Farmers Are Threatening to Commit Suicide Tomorrow | VICE News
Farmers in India are demanding compensation from their government for ruining their farmland — and they are putting their lives on the line.
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Why Magnetars Should Freak You Out
Paul Sutter is a research fellow at the Astronomical Observatory of Trieste and a visiting scholar at The Ohio State University’s Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics. Sutter is also host of the podcasts “Ask a Spaceman” and “RealSpace,” …
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Mozilla Makes Private Browsing More Private In Firefox
Mozilla is testing a new private browsing mode in Firefox that doesn’t just keep no trace of your porn browsing habits on your machine but that also blocks online services that could track you while you’re surfing the web.
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Microsoft can disable pirated games, software, and hardware in Windows 10
Software pirates might want to hold off on their Windows 10 upgrades thanks to a newly updated Microsoft Services End User License Agreement. The company has added language to its terms that give it the ability to monitor and disable illegal softwar…
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Hottest July On Record Keeps 2015 On Track To Crush 2014 For Hottest Year | ThinkProgress
NASA reports this was the hottest July on record. So we are now in “bet the mortgage” territory that 2015 will be the hottest year in NASA’s 125-year temperature record.
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Why AT&T Really, Really Wants You on a Family Plan | WIRED
AT&T has adjusted its data plans yet again. This time, the available options seem structured to push customers towards a big-bucket family plan. Sorry, lonelyhearts! Here’s how the new plans break down.
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The Newly Proposed High Definition Space Telescope Makes Hubble Look Like a Toy
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which will be “in many ways a hundred times” more capable than Hubble, isn’t launching until 2018, but already astrophysicists are thinking about its successor. They’re calling it the High Definition Space Tele…
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You Should Be Coding in Your Physics Course | WIRED
It’s near the start of a new semester of physics. Many faculty are working on their plans for introductory physics courses. How many tests should there be? What about homework? Do I want to cover fluids? What about numerical calculations? Let’s talk…
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Midday open thread: Raped 11-year-old gives birth; Congressman regrets deaths his Iraq vote enabled
The airline said it is within its rights to weigh passengers because of international aviation rules about airplane weights. This report comes as S.B. 185, a bill to divest CalPERS and CalSTRS from coal, awaits a vote in the Assembly.
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How An Alaska Lawmaker Is Trying To Sneak Anti-LGBT Discrimination Into The Law | ThinkProgress
Three years ago, Proposition 5, which would have created LGBT nondiscrimination protections, failed to pass in Anchorage, Alaska.
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Wave of deadly shootings rock Brazil’s Sao Paulo – Al Jazeera English
At least 19 people have been killed and seven injured within the span of less than three hours in a wave of shootings in Brazil’s largest city Sao Paulo, officials have said.
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British Authorities Combat ‘Cyber-Flashing’ – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
The British Transport Police are investigating an incident in which a woman’s iPhone received anonymous photos of a penis via Apple’s AirDrop feature, a function where files can be sent to any other iPhone in the vicinity, in a crime they have dubbe…
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How a Failed Mountain Climb Spawned an Epic Documentary – Bloomberg Business
Making a living as a mountaineer is as iffy as it is dangerous. Aspiring pros typically spend years living out of a van, dumpster-diving with raccoons for food in campground parking lots, and climbing as often as they can.
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STANFORD, CA— Providing new insight into the inner workings of the central nervous system, a study published Friday by researchers at Stanford University revealed that human reaction time is now most accurately measured by the speed at which a perso…
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After 5 years, it felt so good doing this! : AdviceAnimals
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Just past sunrise over the ocean, by Reid Wiseman… – Just Space
Just past sunrise over the ocean, by Reid Wiseman aboard the ISS… http://t.co/YznVenRLzL http://t.co/cHvstqRAvH
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@Sarah looking at the Front Page this week – Imgur
Sarah looking at the Front Page this week http://t.co/0fQWuCrXT7 http://t.co/qb6AZJvI5a
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Science Fiction Western with splashes of horror – Meme on Imgur
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Took my daughter to check out the bobcat exhibit at the zoo yesterday. : funny
Took my daughter to check out the bobcat exhibit at the zoo yesterday. via /r/funny http://t.co/hhd6CmxlMc http://t.co/0wpzPyjgah
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Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of The National Lampoon
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead is a documentary about National Lampoon coming out this fall. Here’s the trailer:
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Scientists: Music makes surgery patients feel better – Boing Boing
Dr. Catherine Meads at Brunel University focused her attention on 73 rigorous, randomized clinical trials about the role of music among surgery patients. Maybe most notably, patients listening to music used significantly less pain medication.
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This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Samsung, 3D Printing, And The Coolest Cooler | TechCrunch
Samsung unveiled new phones and Samsung Pay this week, causing a bit of buzz in the world of mobile. Because we simply can’t resist it, we discussed the latest in 3D printing, while the Coolest Cooler has become the most funded project on Kickstarte…
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Bar Roulette Is Exactly What It Sounds Like | TechCrunch
The premise is simple: tap a button, get into an Uber and have no idea where you’re going. Actually, that sounds like a really awful nightmare I had once.
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Watch Amy Schumer Join an Irish Wedding Party Sing-Along | Vanity Fair
Imagine that you are sitting in a pub after your wedding. You’re still in your wedding dress, your groom is still in his suit, and in walk Amy Schumer, Judd Apatow, and Glen Hansard, the Irish singer-songwriter who starred in the 2006 musical romanc…
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Litter is a problem that costs taxpayers nearly £1bn a year, and now some of the companies whose products end up as waste on the streets are calling on the government to create a national strategy to tackle it.
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The ‘Stonewall’ trailer gets the explosives-filled parody it deserves
When Hollywood action-blockbuster director Roland Emmerich unleashed the trailer for Stonewall, his take on the historic Stonewall riots, the Internet went berzerk.
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Smite for Xbox is coming to MLG
One of the most popular genres in gaming is finally moving to the console market—and, thanks to a deal announced today, it’s esports scene is, too.
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Documents confirm Apple is building self-driving car | Technology | The Guardian
Apple is building a self-driving car in Silicon Valley, and is scouting for secure locations in the Bay Area to test it, the Guardian has learned. Documents obtained by the Guardian show the oft-rumoured Apple car project appears to be further along…
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Microfiber ropes for cleaning nooks and crannies – Boing Boing
Getting grime out of tight places on my bikes can be a real pain. This microfiber line lets me clean, and shine, even the toughest spots! Keeping my old BMW airheads looking pretty is not always the easiest thing on Earth.
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Jordan Spieth roars up leaderboard to send shockwaves through US PGA field | Sport | The Guardian
There was a reason for 12.24 Wisconsin time on Friday being widely regarded as a potentially seminal moment. For the first occasion in this, the 97th US PGA Championship, Jordan Spieth had clambered to the summit of the leaderboard.
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Crush of the Week: Brace Yourself | Vanity Fair
I have fallen in love with this two-pearl gold bracelet from Christian Dior. While pearl earrings and necklaces are sometimes too ladylike, this bracelet is for the woman who doesn’t pile on the jewels, and shies away from loud colors and prints.
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Canadian Teacher Acquitted of Sex Assault by Indonesian Court and Freed | VICE News
A Canadian teacher’s friends, family, and supporters let out cheers Friday morning as he walked out of a jail in Jakarta after an Indonesian court overturned sex assault convictions against him and a teaching assistant.
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Taylor Swift Barack Obama Spotify – The Atlantic
A few decades have changed a lot about hip-hop, but arguably not that much about America. In 1986, the five black teens who eventually became the legendary rap group N.W.A. struggled to navigate life in Compton amid routine police brutality—not unli…
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Yes, Virginia, Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 could get a sequel · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Because they actually made a Samurai Cop sequel and now anything is possible, Dread Central reports that Kickstarter may be about to realize its true potential with a sequel to the sequel to Silent Night, Deadly Night.
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Millions of Volkswagen Cars Have Been Hackable for Years Say Researchers | Motherboard
Anti-theft devices found on millions of vehicles have been vulnerable to wireless hacking for years, according to security researchers from the UK and the Netherlands.
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The Jack Reacher Sequel Is Actually Happening, and Has a Female Lead | Vanity Fair
Want more proof that Tom Cruise is back and maybe better than ever? A sequel to Jack Reacher– a would-be franchise starter considered a disappointment when it opened in 2012—is now actually happening, with a release planned for late 2016.
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Colbert Promises ‘Female Perspective’ Amid Late-Night ‘Sausage Fest’ | Rolling Stone
Stephen Colbert will begin his new comedic era on September 8th, replacing retired David Letterman as host of The Late Show.
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The True Purpose of Microsoft Solitaire, Minesweeper, and FreeCell | Mental Floss
If you haven’t ever played Solitaire, Minesweeper, Hearts or FreeCell, it’s safe to say you’re in the minority. These simple Windows games have probably caused more lost worker hours than anything short of a worldwide coffee shortage.
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Goodwill don’t give a fuck : firstworldanarchists
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Unlikely Bros : AnimalsBeingBros
Unlikely Bros via /r/AnimalsBeingBros http://t.co/A3EzMCM4Xv http://t.co/jatEr59w2n
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One of the world’s finest opals : woahdude
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Playing with self portraits [4928×3264] : ExposurePorn
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The Smoke and Mirrors Behind Balanced-Budget Rhetoric
Governors are proud of their balanced budgets. If you drank a shot every time one was mentioned in that August 6 Fox News GOP debate, you would have been in for a painful Friday. Of course, every state’s constitution (save Vermont’s) requires a bala…
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Why Google Became Alphabet, Explained In 120 Seconds | TechCrunch
What are the pros and cons of Google reorganizing itself as Alphabet? Well, Larry gets to play with the future, Google can focus on more ambitious projects, and it could help the company retain top talent.
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Apple’s new market for Apple Watch? Those with chubby wrists
If you’ve gone into an Apple Store to try on an Apple Watch, only to find it’s a bit to snug for your meaty wrists, we’ve got good news. Apple has released a kit that allows users to add extra links to their Apple Watch as well as a larger Sport Ban…
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Hey drone pilots, stop flying near airplanes
Over the course of this year, the number of drones spotted by airline pilots has skyrocketed. Officials from the Federal Aviation Administration told the Wall Street Journal that, between January 1 and August 9, pilot have reported seeing drones whi…
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Robot evolution is a thing, and that’s definitely not scary at all
It turns out that robots are just as capable of natural selection as living, breathing organisms. European researchers led by scientists at the University of Cambridge created a “mother” robot capable of building and testing “child” robots.
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History is littered with upside-down verdicts about exchange rates. In the Britain of 1925, for example, there were misguided cheers when Churchill pushed industry into the doldrums by pretending the first world war had never happened, and forcing s…
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Now That Fables Is Over, Is There a Future for Vertigo Comics?
Last week, the best-selling Vertigo series Fables came to an end with a special book-length final issue, and so did Vertigo’s reign as a top publisher of creator-owned comics.
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This Week in TV: Kristen Wiig Dubs TV for Global Audiences | WIRED
As you must know by now, Comic-Con International populated the city of San Diego last weekend, and Conan O’Brien moved his show down south for a few days in honor of the event.
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Bush campaign lied about meeting with Black Lives Matter activists
A tag is a way to search for this diary. If someone is searching for “Barack Obama,” is this a diary they’d be trying to find? Use a person’s full name, without any title. Senator Obama may become President Obama, and Michelle Obama might run for of…
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Cocks on film: Sometimes a cigar is not just a cigar · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Let’s just get it out of the way: PENIS. There, now let’s get on with the story. YouTube user Now You See It examines how phallic symbolism is used in film—specifically, its use for dramatic purposes and not comedic ones.
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We’re signing the Litter Manifesto to help clean up the UK | Letters | Environment | The Guardian
As a nation the UK spends approximately £1bn a year clearing up litter. The vast majority of people believe that dropping litter is unacceptable, yet levels of littering are at their worst levels for a decade.
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Facebook Should Pay All of Us – The New Yorker
Not long ago, Zeynep Tufekci, a sociologist who studies social media, wrote that she wanted to pay for Facebook.
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NBC orders comedy about people who only wish they were superheroes · Newswire · The A.V. Club
NBC is looking to expand the DC Comics universe by focusing on the non-superheroes in it—Deadline reports that the network has ordered a pilot for Powerless, a half-hour comedy about insurance workers with superpower envy.
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Read This: Stephen Colbert on why women should rule the world · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Until Samantha Bee’s new TBS show and Sara Schaefer’s new IFC show manage to claw their way out of development, aside from The Grace Helbig Show on E!—which we totally forgot about, too—hosting late-night talk shows remains a male concern.
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Tracking U.S. Drought Severity : dataisbeautiful
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Reminder for those suffering silently. – Imgur
Reminder for those suffering silently. http://t.co/P5X4aFabvi http://t.co/3PKmlEcUaV
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Seeking samples from FIV positive kitties : cats
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The car-swallowing hole has been fixed but not forgotten at the National Corvette Museum in Kentucky. Yellow tape now marks the boundaries of the cavity that became a sensation and put the museum on the map.
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Fix the broken pieces of this pot, also your life – Offworld
There’s something appealing about putting a broken thing back together. It offers a sense of restoring order to the world, or perhaps even affirming that damaged things are still worth saving.
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I’m not sure I like the direction of Office Space 2 – GIF on Imgur
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Still my favorite Gif which also made me join Imgur – GIF on Imgur
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New Yorker: Only the rich can affort this much nothing – Imgur
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Bacteria Levels In Boston’s Charles River Spur Health Warnings From City Officials | ThinkProgress
Just when it seemed like Boston’s chronically-polluted Charles River had made a miraculous turnaround, an algae bloom is forcing residents to avoid the river once again.
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Attention, Binge Fans: The Knick is Now on HBO Go | WIRED
Game of Thrones just scored very big. The fantasy drama snagged 24 Emmy nominations this morning, beating out every other show in the bunch, and its network—HBO—lead all networks with 126 nominations total. Not bad for a show that weathered its shar…
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Obama, Hillary to attend Martha’s Vineyard birthday party | TheHill
President Obama and Hillary Clinton will reportedly attend a party on Saturday on Martha’s Vineyard, setting up their first encounter since Clinton formally launched her campaign for president.
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Freshman year can be a challenge. Between choosing the right classes, meeting new people and navigating tricky roommate relationships, there’s plenty of room for error.
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Say hello to baby Jupiter | Fusion
Scientists searching for planets that circle stars other than our Sun, or exoplanets, discovered an object that looks like a baby Jupiter. The planet, 51 Eridani b, could help us learn more about how our own solar system was formed.
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The Pinwheel Galaxy – this giant disk of stars,… – Just Space
The Pinwheel Galaxy – this giant disk of stars, dust and gas is… http://t.co/smOz3JGVna http://t.co/2JGBdJ6M4t
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My pal Sheldon via /r/cats http://t.co/3dhLciVNbF http://t.co/DvfgDmujDP
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News in Brief: Huckabee Campaign Suspended After Candidate Trapped In Briar Patch http://t.co/ZEjDaZtujE
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A predator stalks its prey : gifs
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How Google X Head Astro Teller Defends Moonshot Projects | Popular Science
Astro Teller, the head of X Labs (formerly known as Google[x]), lead teams through the development of Google Glass, self-driving cars, and Internet-delivery balloons.
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Everything You Need to Know About Classic American Ice Cream – Eater
Like many of the world’s most coveted and crave-able foods, the invention of ice cream was an accident. The Chinese are credited with pouring snow and salt over flavored syrups in 200 B.C.
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Woman wears Fitbit during sex, publishes heart rate chart – Boing Boing
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Flashback posted a fantastic set of photos taken by official cruise ship photographers in the 1990s. Muir Vidler snapped this excellent shot above and says:
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Instagram Rabbit Hole: Yoga in China and McDonalds in Africa | WIRED
This week photo editor Sarah Silberg (@sesilberg) takes us down the Instagram Rabbit Hole. Silberg started with NY-based photographer Thomas Prior. She loves Prior’s ability to make an interesting photo of just about anything (like this amazing phot…
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You Can Now Run Windows 10 On Your Mac | TechCrunch
Thanks to Apple updating Boot Camp, that is. If you have had a hankering to try out Microsoft’s latest operating system — and I can recommend at least taking it for a spin — now’s the time.
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Feds Say Rand and Ron Paul Aides Planned to Smear Local Pol If Payoff Failed | Mother Jones
Prosecutors are generally required to share their evidence with a defendant to allow him or her to prepare for a trial.
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Trick video improved by failing to achieve desired effect – Boing Boing
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Stop-and-frisk deal: shame on ACLU and Chicago, say anti-violence activists | US news | The Guardian
Anti-violence activists in Chicago are criticizing what they call a “disgusting” deal between the city and the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois over requests for independent evaluations into stop-and-frisk tactics used by the police depart…
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Listen to President Obama’s summer playlists – Boing Boing
President Obama posted two Spotify summer playlists, one for day and another for night. Some nice soul and jazz cuts on there from Coltrane, The Temptations, Al Green Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, and Miles. Also, the Stones, Dylan, and Joni Mitchell.
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More Exercise Is The Key To Fighting Childhood Obesity, Study Suggests | ThinkProgress
A study out of Louisiana State University has designated lack of physical activity as the most prominent indicator of childhood obesity.
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A Siri butt dial saved a man from being crushed under his truck
The 18-year-old was working under his truck when the truck fell and pinned him there, trapping his arms. Unable to move and with no one around to answer his calls for help, he was in a seemingly hopeless situation. Then he heard an unexpected voice…
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Can Music Really “Wake” Someone From a Coma?
Every now and again we get news stories about how someone in a coma “woke up” when their loved ones played or sang their favorite song. It sounds like sentimental exaggeration. According to at least a couple of studies, music really might help.
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Climate change ‘set to fuel global food crisis’ – Al Jazeera English
Global food shortages will become three times more likely as a result of climate change according to a report by a joint US-British taskforce, which warned that the international community needs to be ready to respond to potentially dramatic future …
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The Incredible Chemistry Set on Kickstarter – Boing Boing
Cory James Marriott is Kickstarting a cool $600 chemistry set.
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“Unmanned factory” replaces 600 humans with robots – Boing Boing
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Armed with Butterfly Nets, Biologists Are Collecting a Mountain of Genomes | Motherboard
Despite technological advances, some biologists still rely on techniques that have been around since the 1800s. Menno Schilthuizen and his colleagues are using many such time-tested research practices in their study of endemic species on Mount Kinab…
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FIFA’s Rocha agrees to be extradited to Nicaragua – Al Jazeera English
Julio Rocha, the former head of the Nicaraguan Football Federation who was one of seven FIFA officials detained in Switzerland in May, has agreed to be extradited to his home country, the Swiss justice ministry says.
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HOPE, AR—Saying all public appearances would be canceled until they could find a way to free the former Arkansas governor, officials announced Friday that Mike Huckabee’s presidential campaign had been suspended due to the Republican candidate becom…
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As an IT helpdesk, I know I’m in for a rough time if you say this. : AdviceAnimals
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Look who got caught shopping at Walmart : pics
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Some bookmarks I made with postage stamps [AiC] [2448×3264] : bookporn
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Six-Hour Standoff in Staten Island Is Now Over — NYMag
A six-hour standoff between federal marshals and the Staten Island man they hoped to arrest early this morning is now over.
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Creating A “SEA” Change In The Digital Age | TechCrunch
A popular anecdote states that Henry Ford paid his assembly line workers a good wage so they could afford to buy their own company’s cars.
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Our Men From U.N.C.L.E. Could Be Gay. So What? | WIRED
The Man from U.N.C.L.E., the new spy thriller about two enemy agents who become partners, comes out today, and it’s already overloading critics’ gaydar.
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Spotting What’s Special in the Octopus Genome [Video] – Scientific American
Nature Video describe the surprising genome of the intelligent and color-changing octopus, as sequenced by a research teamfrom the University of Chicago and . Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group.
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Readers pine for the edutainment games of yesteryear · Keyboard Geniuses · The A.V. Club
Keyboard Geniuses is our weekly glance at a few intriguing, witty, or otherwise notable posts from the Gameological discussion threads. Comments have been excerpted and edited here for grammar, length, and/or clarity. You can follow the links to see…
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Why Castro Says The United States Owes Cuba Millions | ThinkProgress
Secretary of State John Kerry is in Cuba Friday for the opening of the U.S. embassy in Havana. His trip is the first by a U.S. Secretary of State in 54 years. But a newspaper column written by Cuba’s Fidel Castro on Thursday shed some light on the l…
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The Department of Homeland Security is creating a cybersecurity advisory team
The U.S. government is getting more serious about cybersecurity. The advisory council that provides guidance to the Secretary of Homeland Security will soon contain a subcommittee dedicated to cybersecurity, according to a notice published in the Fe…
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Toy Story 4 Will Be a Love Story for Woody | WIRED
Game of Thrones just scored very big. The fantasy drama snagged 24 Emmy nominations this morning, beating out every other show in the bunch, and its network—HBO—lead all networks with 126 nominations total. Not bad for a show that weathered its shar…
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A group of immigrant rights lawyers say that detention of women and children caught crossing the US-Mexico border illegally is lengthy and unsafe, challenging the government’s claims that immigrant families are held only briefly and that their deten…
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How George R.R. Martin’s ‘bittersweet’ ending to ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ could play out
This contains spoilers for A Song of Ice and Fire. George R.R. Martin has been fairly tight-lipped about how A Song of Ice and Fire will ultimately end, but a new interview reveals more of what that ending may entail.
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Ferguson state of emergency ends after week of Michael Brown protests | US news | The Guardian
St Louis County on Friday ended the state of emergency it had put in effect earlier this week for Ferguson, Missouri, and surrounding areas after violence during protests to mark the anniversary of Michael Brown’s death.
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Your favorite apps are so good at spying on you that actual spies are asking for help
Although George Orwell may have predicted Big Brother, he likely never imagined it would be so voluntary.
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Read This: The stories behind all The Smiths’ album covers · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
The Smiths became known not only for Morrissey’s proto-emo lyrics and timeless melodies, but also the band’s refusal to use its members’ own images on the covers of nearly 30 albums and singles. When those albums and singles were released in the U.K.
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Navajo Code Talkers Day celebrates crucial second world war contribution | World news | The Guardian
When Navajo servicemen used their native Indian language to create an unbreakable code, they helped the Allies get one step closer to victory over Japan in the second world war – a contribution celebrated on Friday as Navajo Code Talkers Day.
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Max Scherzer Was Just Joking About Taylor Swift, You Guys | Rolling Stone
Max Scherzer came to Washington, D.C. earlier this year with a supersized contract befitting his ace status – seven years, $210 million.
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Evan Dorkin Describes How Fandom Has Become “Eltingville Uber Alles”
Evan Dorkin is ruthlessly funny, and sometimes just ruthless, in this interview with Paste magazine.
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T Bone Burnett Explains Leonard Cohen ‘True Detective’ Opening | Rolling Stone
In a new interview with Billboard, True Detective music supervisor T Bone Burnett revealed the meaning behind using Leonard Cohen’s Popular Problems track “Nevermind” as Season Two’s opening music alongside why different verses of the song were used…
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Listen to Obama’s Summer Spotify Playlist | Vanity Fair
Presidents hardly catch a break—the free world doesn’t stop for personal days!—so whenever they go on vacation, they have to cram all of their fun into two short weeks, all while making sure they’re not caught golfing while the world crumbles.
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The Carter Family’s Music, Legacy Honored in New Documentary | Rolling Stone
As the first family of country music, the Carter Family remains one of the genre’s most influential acts of all time. Hailing from Maces Springs, Virginia, in the foothills of the Appalachians, the Carters — led by A.P.
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Do you have a question that only a stripper can answer? How about a love letter? Fan mail? Bachelor/ette, Divorce or Birthday party bookings (fat chance, but hey, it’s worth a try, right?) General grievances? A BOOK DEAL? Fill out this form!
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The economic history of one NYC block
Economist William Easterly and some of his colleagues built a site that focuses on the economic development of a single block in NYC, Greene Street between Houston and Prince.
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If you haven’t yet seen Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris but do plan on watching it (find it online here), rest assured that there’s no wrong way to go about it.
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With NASA partnership, Google exploits legal loophole to test drones
Documents unearthed by the Guardian show that the tech giant has partnered with NASA to sidestep drone regulations that apply to other companies.
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This Is What the President Listens To On Spotify | WIRED
Politicians have tried lots of cheesy ways to connect with young voters, but this is one tactic we can get behind. Today, the White House joined Spotify and created two killer summer playlists crafted by none other than President Obama.
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Fascinating video of graphic design process in the pre-Photoshop Mad Men era – Boing Boing
Designer Sean Adams takes us through the creation of a full-page color magazine advertisement as it was done in the Mad Men era. The first issues of the bOING bOING zine (late 1980s) were produced with a combo of crude desktop publishing and analog …
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#ILookLikeAnEngineer is not about looking—it’s about listening
Tech likes to tell its own story. The prevailing story—so often of a precocious young white man, the obstacles in his path, his eventual ascendance—is its own sort of monoculture. In the process of creating things, Silicon Valley grew a legend too. …
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The Race to Save the Vaquita, the World’s Most Endangered Marine Mammal | Motherboard
This is the vaquita. A porpoise species up to five feet in length, it’s characterised by its small size, pale grey colour, and the dark rings around its eyes and mouth that make it look as if it’s smudged its make-up in its native waters of the Gulf…
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Obama hits links with NBA’s Steph Curry | TheHill
President Obama should hope his golf stroke is better than his partners’ three-point shots. Obama hit the links on Friday at Farm Neck Golf Club in Oak Bluffs, Mass., with NBA star Stephen Curry, his father, Dell Curry, and sharpshooter Ray Allen.
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In 1929, the Newfangled Realm of Forensics Helped Catch a Cruel Killer
Sidney Harry Fox had already caused his mother plenty of grief by the time he decided to end her life in 1929, greedily eyeing her insurance policy as just the cash infusion he needed to continue his shiftless lifestyle.
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NBC chairman threatens ALF reboot if Coach reboot is successful · Newswire · The A.V. Club
NBC could reward faithful viewers of the Coach reboot with a second helping of Alf, NBC Chairman Bob Greenblatt shared at the TCA press tour yesterday.
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ABC releases new celeb-filled promos for The Muppets · Newswire · The A.V. Club
It seems the whole world—or, at least, the Comic Con-attending part of it—is pretty excited about the new Muppets show premiering on ABC next month. The aptly named The Muppets series will be “more adult” than its predecessor, possibly in an effort …
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Dividing the Arctic Has Turned into a Very Diplomatic Clusterfuck | Motherboard
An Arctic land rush is currently underway: Nations like Canada and Russia are using science and the occasional search for a storied shipwreck to lay claim to large swathes of the Arctic ocean, and the valuable oil that lies beneath.
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Would Jesus Vote for Bernie Sanders? – In These Times
The first presidential debate in early August should worry Republicans, but not because of any memorable gaffes. It was the deafening silence—begging to be filled by Bernie Sanders—that signals trouble on the GOP’s horizon.
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13 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week | TechCrunch
This week, Google announced a major corporate restructuring, Samsung introduced two new flagship smartphones and Tinder took to Twitter in a full-blown PR meltdown. These are the stories to catch you up on everything that’s happened this week in the…
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A visibly nervous Nigel Wright took the stand on Wednesday morning to begin answering questions on his involvement in paying out what is alleged to be a $90,000 bribe, made out to a sitting Canadian senator as part of one of the most closely scrutin…
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Top Democrat worries net-neutrality rules will help terrorists
The Democratic senator who has led the charge for blocking online terrorist content is worried about net neutrality.
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My friend is always told he looks like Robert Pattinson. He recently decided to embrace it. – Imgur
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George Miller’s original 1999 storyboard for Mad Max: Fury Road – Boing Boing
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How A Poor Neighborhood Becomes A Trap | ThinkProgress
The daily experience of poverty has gotten worse for many people in America over the last decade. That’s because the poor are getting hemmed into areas of more and more concentrated poverty while people of better means flee elsewhere.
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Even when you turn on Win 10’s “privacy” flags, it still spies on you – Boing Boing
By default, Windows listens to you, gathers your keystrokes, watches your browser history and purchases and sends them to Microsoft and its partners — but even if you turn off all the tickboxes in the hellishly complex privacy dashboard it still ga…
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Woman’s meth overdose in South Dakota jail leaves family with questions | US news | The Guardian
A 24-year-old woman whose family has questioned whether she received adequate medical attention before she was found unresponsive in a South Dakota jail cell died of a meth overdose, the state’s attorney general announced Thursday.
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Photos of the Week: 8/8-8/14 – The Atlantic
Photos of the Week: 8/8-8/14 A simulated Mars mission on Austrian glaciers, California’s Jerusalem wildfire, the Italian ghost town of Craco, a robotic swan in Singapore, a pigeon caught smuggling cocaine
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Drone Pays Visit to Brooklyn Heights Office — NYMag
Don’t mind the robot hovering outside the office window. Offices drones came face-to-face with an actual drone Thursday afternoon, when a hovering copter peeked into an office window on the 30th floor of a Brooklyn Heights high-rise.
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Foo Fighters fan upstages Dave Grohl with epic ‘Tom Sawyer’ cover
One lucky Foo Fighters fan just got the highest possible praise. As most bands likely would tell you, bringing up an audience member to either play an instrument or sing a song during a massive arena show is a risk.
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The Truth Behind The ‘Female Viagra’ | ThinkProgress
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may soon green light a drug to increase women’s sexual desire.
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You must sign a waiver before you are allowed to eat ghost pepper ice cream – Boing Boing
The Ice Cream Store in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware sells ice cream flavored with ghost peppers, which are loaded with so much capsaicin that they make jalapeños seem like strawberries.
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Bear cubs of mother euthanized after Yellowstone attack will go to Ohio zoo | US news | The Guardian
Two female grizzly bear cubs orphaned after their mother was euthanized because she was linked to the fatal mauling of a hiker in Yellowstone national park will be moved to a zoo in Toledo, Ohio, zoo officials said on Friday.
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15 Going on 30: Reading ‘The Diary of a Teenage Girl’ – The Atlantic
The most convenient source of sex—even more convenient than the adolescent boys that populate her high school—is the man who is constantly around the house: her mother’s layabout boyfriend, Monroe (Alexander Skarsgård).
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Study: China’s Air Pollution Kills 4,000 People Per Day – The Atlantic
Over the past 10 years of living in and then writing about China, I’ve struck these big three recurring themes: That it is impressive and notable for the U.S.
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When NASA Won’t Hire You, Become a Freelance Astronaut | Motherboard
Brian Shiro really wants to go to space. He wants to go to space so badly, in fact, that he’s applied to NASA’s astronaut program. Twice. Both times he fell just short. He’s hoping the third time’s the charm.
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Ghosting sounds terrible—but it’s actually the best way to break up with someone
When US Weekly broke the news that Charlize Theron had ended her relationship with Sean Penn by simply not picking up the phone, the Internet went crazy.
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The Best Natural Disaster Experts to Follow on the Web | WIRED
Maybe movies like The Day after Tomorrow or The Perfect Storm (or, uh, Sharknado?) just don’t do it for you. Special effects and cutting-edge CGI are impressive and all, but you want your natural disasters more…natural. More real. More viscerally te…
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Reddit Is Restricting Content Based on Countries’ Requests | Motherboard
Instead of banning the site outright, Russia and Reddit are taking the middle ground: restricting access to content the country finds unlawful.
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Scientists Discover a Way To Make Cows Fatter and Less Flatulent – Modern Farmer
Cows produce obscene amounts of methane due to natural bodily processes. Previous attempts to control the problem have had hugely negative side effects—but a new one seems to avoid all the pitfalls.
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MLB’s Best Free Agent Doesn’t Play Baseball | FiveThirtyEight
Lost in the manic hustle of the trade deadline’s aftermath was some of the most significant news for the upcoming baseball offseason. Dave Dombrowski, the general manager of the Detroit Tigers since 2002, was fired from his post, becoming perhaps th…
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MALIBU, Calif. — Not too long ago, the actor Sam Elliott, who has spent much of his 46-year career alternately fighting and embracing habitual typecasting as America’s cowboy, was referred to as a “male ingénue.” At 71, Mr.
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Soda has been a major target in the debate over sugar and its role in the obesity crisis. But high levels of added sugars can be found in many seemingly healthful foods, from yogurts to energy bars and even whole-grain bread.
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Dude annoys sister for 7 hours straight with lip-syncing marathon
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Newly released photographs show the now infamous Minnesota dentist Walter Palmer with a black bear he killed illegally in 2006.
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Cloud9 parts ways with Dota 2 roster
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League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen reboot to focus on extraordinary women · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Alan Moore’s graphic novel The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen—about a team of Victorian-era literary characters adventuring together in gentlemanly ways—was first destroyed by Hollywood in 2003 with an underdeveloped and underperforming film adap…
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Alaska troopers want to know why idiot in bear suit is harassing grizzlies – Boing Boing
Why would someone wear a realistic bear costume and use it bother a mother grizzly and her two cubs trying to eat salmon in an Alaska river? First of all, he’s lucky the mother bear didn’t eviscerate him when he ran to within five to ten feet of the…
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Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: Noah Baumbach’s new film, Mistress America, is a modern farce. Gear up for it with five days of classic ones.
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There’s no better way to kickstart the day than with a little nightmare fuel. In this case, it’s the creepy faces of the Teletubbies performing Die Antwoord’s “I Fink U Freeky” in Robert Jones’ latest video mashup.
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Modest Mouse takes the long road · Hear This · The A.V. Club
In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: our favorite songs that come in at over 10 minutes long.
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Comcast may challenge YouTube and Facebook with new on demand service
A new report suggests Comcast is preparing a new video platform to take on YouTube with help from large media companies like Vox and Buzzfeed. Codenamed ‘Watchable,’ Comcast’s venture will bring unlicensed, original content that can be streamed on d…
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Trickle-down kids’ TV: Sesame Street will air on HBO 9 months before PBS – Boing Boing
A show conceived to help low-income kids keep up with their affluent peers will now be “paywalled so that rich kids can watch it before poor kids can.” Some will say it doesn’t matter, because the poor kids will get to see it eventually.
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Sex workers want to talk to you about parenting
Everyone has an opinion on sex workers. Victims or businesspeople? Exploited or empowered? Through all the noise of opinion, it can be hard to remember that there’s one group of people who truly know what they’re talking about: sex workers themselve…
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This Adorable Octopus Is Probably Smarter Than Your Dog | Motherboard
Scientists have mapped an octopus’s complete genome for the first time, potentially unraveling the mystery of its high intelligence and ability to camouflage.
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In China, coal pollution kills someone every 21 seconds | Grist
Air pollution from the burning of coal kills more than 4,000 people a day in China, accounting for one in six premature deaths and 1.6 million deaths annually, according to a study in the journal PLOS One.
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Rudolph Norris walked out of Morgantown federal prison two weeks ago carrying a duffel bag like no other. First, he had spent six months hand-stitching it himself from dozens of mottled leather scraps, symbolizing the shards of h…
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A Life Story in Tattoos, and How They Liberated Me
As a child, people with tattoos were badasses and rebels—I imagined they sat in somebody’s basement, fearless, silent and maybe smoking a cigarette while someone bled them slowly in the name of body art. I wanted to feel that strength.
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The #ILookLikeAnEngineer movement, an effort to highlight diversity in the tech industry, is still going strong. Last night, over 200 underrepresented engineers and supporters came together in San Francisco to talk about diversity and share their ex…
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RetroPie 3 Lets You Play Old Games On Your New Pi | TechCrunch
The RetroPie project has always been one of the best things about the Raspberry Pi. This software suite turns your tiny, single-board computer into a retro gaming engine and has powered such exciting projects as the CupCade.
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Top US companies deliver hope to thousands of Chicago youths at job fair | US news | The Guardian
More than 3,500 young people attended Chicago’s McCormick Place conference center on Thursday for a job fair launching a project aiming to provide 100,000 jobs primarily to African American and Latino youth.
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The American flag flies over Cuba for the first time in 54 years
The American flag is flying over Cuba for the first time in half a century. Earlier this year, The United States moved to reinstate its diplomatic relationship with the island nation after cutting ties with the island nation in the early 1960s.
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Smith named as Australia’s new cricket captain – Al Jazeera English
Steven Smith is to take over as captain of the Australian test team following the retirement of Michael Clarke after the fifth Ashes test against England, the country’s cricket board has announced.
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DJ Premier Talks Dr. Dre’s Incendiary ‘Animals’ Verse | Rolling Stone
Throughout N.W.A’s brief career, it was Ice Cube who served as the group’s main political firebrand — a shit-starter of the highest order, unafraid to take on systemic injustice and institutional hypocrisy. But on “Animals,” Dr.
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Watch Metric Embrace Visual Overload in New Video for ‘The Shade’ | Rolling Stone
Metric released “The Shade” — the anthemic first single off their forthcoming sixth album, Pagans in Vegas — back in May, and now the Canadian synth-pop band have debuted a prophetic video for the song. Watch the new clip below. In the video, the ba…
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Why the Beatles’ Shea Stadium Show Was Even Greater Than You Knew | Rolling Stone
Leaving festivals like Woodstock and Monterey aside, there is no more famous gig in rock & roll history than when the Beatles played Shea Stadium, an orange and blue ass pit of a venue in front of 56,000 mostly teenyboppers on August 15th, 1965.
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Rand Paul Is Losing His Own Flame War | Rolling Stone
It’s a bad sign when your campaign is starting to resemble a comments section flame war. Especially when you’re doing it wrong.
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Shirley Manson Reflects on 20 Years of ‘Garbage’ | Rolling Stone
Garbage frontwoman Shirley Manson looks back at 20 years of the group’s debut album. “I’ve always been the odd one out in Garbage,” Shirley Manson says matter-of-factly, her Scottish accent slightly emphasizing the word “always.” “Even now, I’m the …
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Why Most Video Game ‘Aggression’ Studies Are Nonsense
Do violent video games make people more aggressive? Politicians and pundits have been asking that question for years now, and although everyone thinks they know the answer, scientific studies have yet to come up with results that satisfy even the mo…
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Gabrielle Aplin : Sweet Nothing on Vimeo
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The Many Ways You Can Be Screwed Out of Unemployment Benefits | The Nation
If you’re an on-call overnight security guard, or part-time retail clerk, or another one of millions who work without a set schedule, the most consistent thing about your job is being constantly broke and exhausted. But if you think that’s a slog, w…
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Scenes from an abandoned shopping mall
Photographer Carlos Gonzalez, aka Theonepointeight, captured these photos of an abandoned LA shopping mall. PDN has an interview with Gonzalez about the series.
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Study: Four Thousand People Die From Pollution Exposure Every Day In China | ThinkProgress
Berkeley Earth’s “Air Pollution Overview,” which will be published this month in the peer-reviewed scientific journal PLOS ONE, found that a third of the population of China breathes air that is “unhealthy” by U.S. standards.
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Danish comedy movies can get pretty dark sometimes – GIF on Imgur
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Llama Fails at Entertaining Internet — NYMag
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but the internet came this close to being able to watch a sequel to the Great Llama Chase of 2015, which spawned a herd of GIFs and gave a retirement community in Arizona enough stories to last months.
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Marco Rubio: US embassy in Cuba is ‘rewarding oppressive regime’ – video | World news | The Guardian
The Republican presidential candidate denounced restored diplomatic ties, saying they give international legitimacy to Cuba and provide its government a significant financial boost.
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Watch the Best Simulation Yet of the New Horizons Pluto Flyby
Using data collected by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, Icelandic imaging wizard Björn Jónsson has produced a stunning animated visualization of the now historic Pluto flyby. The time covered in the simulated flyby is from 09:35 to 13:35 on July 14,…
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Little boy hops on a sheep for the fluffiest ride ever
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‘Godzilla El Niño’ Is Coming — NYMag
A ferocious, angry monster is on its way to California, and everyone should run for their umbrellas.
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Jeb Bush: Maybe We Shouldn’t Rule Out Torture | Vanity Fair
During a campaign stop in Iowa, , Republican presidential candidate, former Florida governor, and brother to former president George W.
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Even the Biggest Star on Broadway Bows to Meryl Streep | Vanity Fair
Everyone within driving distance of New York City is angling to pay their respects to Hamilton, the vibrant new musical from Lin-Manuel Miranda that has even the crankiest critics swooning.
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Paparazzi Are Now Using Other Children to Lure Prince George for Pictu | Vanity Fair
“Prince George” was trending on Twitter this morning, and, if you thought, like us, that maybe the Palace had decided, you know, “It’s a slow summer Friday news day, why not throw ‘em some delightful George pics?! Maybe a shot of him holding a stuff…
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Fight Over Germany’s Surge in Refugees | Al Jazeera America
Supporters of asylum seekers in Germany face off against a surging tide of anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim protesters by @ajplus
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Bitcoin Provider Cubits Aims To Help Greeks Move Their Money | TechCrunch
Bitocin services provider Cubits.gr and Greek exchange BTCGreece have teamed up to help Greek citizens move cash out of the country to suppliers and business partners.
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CultureSphere Promises A “Bottoms Up” Approach To Employee-Driven Social Media Sharing | TechCrunch
While businesses have plenty of options if they want to push their employees to do more social media sharing, CultureSphere founder and CEO Danny Gordon said the existing tools all take a similar “top down approach” — senior marketing and social med…
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Puerto Ricans Face an Uncertain Future After Country’s Debt Default | VICE News
A week after their government defaulted on its debt for the first time, Puerto Ricans say the growing effects of austerity and uncertainty over their futures are taking a heavy psychological toll.
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S Sudan denies stifling free speech over media closures – Al Jazeera English
Journalists in South Sudan say they are worried about their ability to report freely, after security forces shut down three media outlets last week. In February, the government warned media groups against publishing interviews with members armed gro…
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I am a black American woman from a working class and poor background. I can never separate those identities; they operate all at once.
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Brilliant Bar Gets You Drunk With an Alcoholic Cloud | WIRED
A funny thing happens when you inhale alcohol: You get drunk. Depending how much alcohol is in the vapor and how much vapor is in the air, the rate at which a pleasant buzz creeps over you can be much faster or much slower than throwing back three s…
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Glitching Mario out of his N64 matrix is worth $1,000 · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
If you’re strapped for cash, and have time to smash Mario’s head against a hidden, invisible barrier for an undetermined span of time until you discover a wormhole in Super Mario 64, then DailyDot brings word of a promising business venture.
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The octopus has the weirdest DNA map scientists have ever seen
People have been comparing the octopus to an alien life form for years—most notably mollusk expert Martin Wells, grandson of H.G. Wells, who ate his subjects after he experimented on them. Wells anecdotally referred to octopuses as “the only alien …
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We Can Never Go Home Comic Mocks Even More Female Superhero Outfits
Issue 3 of Patrick Kindlon, Matthew Rosenberg and Josh Hood’s excellent comic series We Can Never Go Home featured a scene where the female hero Madison tried on a bunch of famous superhero costumes to disguise herself—some better than others.
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Everyone go home: President Obama has unveiled his Spotify songs of the summer playlist
Sorry, Fetty, for all the hype ‘Trap Queen’ has received over the past few months, you did not make the presidential cut for this year’s songs of the summer. President Obama has unveiled a White House official Spotify playlist of songs for summer da…
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Hillary Clinton emails, now with drones! But still without substance.
EXCLUSIVE!!!! screams the latest AP headline on yet another Hillary Clinton email story that, as usual, has very little substance. But this time it has drones.
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Djokovic advances in Canada as Kyrgios exits to boos – Al Jazeera English
World number one Novak Djokovic, second seed Andy Murray and three-time champion Rafa Nadal were all cheered into the quarter-finals of the Rogers Cup on Thursday while controversial Australian Nick Kyrgios exited to boos and a hefty fine.
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My Apple Hardware Hierarchy of Need – Rands in Repose
There was a snarky tweet forming in my head about my Apple Watch this morning. Something about liking it, but not needing it. This triggered an interesting mental exercise where I started stack ranking all my Apple hardware products by need. I found…
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Clyde in the toy box via /r/cats http://t.co/Sjca5Vh7Dl http://t.co/QnAe6gE8Td
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Wood sculptures from discarded tree trunks : pics
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Sagging at its finest. : funny
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How to get both cats to sleep in cat bed : cats
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Grants Awarded for Technologies That Could Transform Space Exploration | NASA
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Interplanetary Travel, Lynx Art Collection [album] : ImaginaryLandscapes
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Firecracker Bush in pink (Russelia equisetiformis [1200×900] [OC] : BotanicalPorn
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Large collection of Nature Pics : natureporn
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Screw you I’ll use it for whatever I fucking want : firstworldanarchists
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That was Kim Kardashian West writing on Instagram last month. The subject of her enthusiasm: a morning sickness drug. As much of the world can’t help knowing, Ms. Kardashian is pregnant and has been struggling with, as she put it, “#morningsickness.
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China is ruled by a party that calls itself Communist, but its economic reality is one of rapacious crony capitalism. And everyone has been assuming that the nation’s leaders are in on the joke, that they know better than to take their occasional so…
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On July 31, the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad published a review of several books on race and racism in the United States.
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The Only Thing I’ll Miss About Cable Is My DVR
As far as watching TV goes, the experience provided by a traditional cable provider is shit. Slow hardware, clunky interfaces, unwanted bundled channels. Streaming services are slowly replacing all of this and thanks goodness for them.
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Happy Thursday, friends, and welcome to another episode of TCBTC, TechCrunch’s mostly-weekly podcast on all things bitcoin. This week John Biggs was in San Francisco, so we recorded the audio in the studio. Here’s to hoping it’s better than usual.
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Ska is the mother of reggae – Boing Boing
Public Radio International aired this short audio piece on ska, the musical form that took off in the early 1960s, blending Jamaican jazz with American soul and rhythm and blues, and influenced numerous excellent bands, from The Clash and The Specia…
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Transgenic mouse company pays academics who cite them in papers – Boing Boing
Cyagen also makes stem cells and other bio-research materials: they’ll pay academics $100 per citation, multiplied by the impact factor of the journal in which the paper is published.
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Kerry Goes to Cuba for Flag-Raising — NYMag
On Friday morning, the same three Marines who took the American flag down from the U.S. Embassy in Havana 54 years ago raised the stars and stripes once again as “The Star-Spangled Banner” played and hundreds of people waving miniature Cuban and U.S…
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What happens when senior citizens use Tinder for the first time
If you’ve ever longed for the “good old days” of dating, watching a young’un teach senior citizens about Tinder will put things in perspective.
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‘Scream Queens,’ ‘Quantico’ and ‘Heroes Reborn’: A Fall TV Preview – The Atlantic
The network’s biggest play for publicity is Ryan Murphy’s new show Scream Queens (September 22nd), an anthology series along the lines of his American Horror Story, but set in a sorority house and starring Emma Roberts, Lea Michele, Ariana Grande an…
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US and Cuba no longer ‘prisoners of history’, says John Kerry – video | World news | The Guardian
John Kerry praises the restoration of diplomatic relations between the US and Cuba as the American flag is once again flown over the US embassy in Havana.
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Why Batman Shouldn’t Be the Center of the DC Movie Universe
No matter where he appears—comics, movies, television, Lego toys—Batman is a hit.
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But the film also implicitly raises the question: What do the deaths of Sandra Bland, Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, Sam Dubose, and countless others mean for hip-hop today? A new generation of rappers today is experiencing what it means to be young a…
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Colbert: women should run the world – Boing Boing
His hilarious, bathetic op-ed in Glamour is full of sneaky, countersunk gender ha-ha-only-serious humor: “Women havesmart, resourceful role models — Marissa Mayer, Michelle Obama, Sacajawea, and the green M&M.”
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How 5 Seconds of Summer and Pop-Punk Heroes Created New LP | Rolling Stone
Luke Hemmings, frontman of Aussie emo-gone-pop sensations 5 Seconds of Summer, is embarrassed by all of the songs he produced when he first started writing music. However, he has a happier recollection of one of his initial collaborations with 5SOS …
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Stream B3 Ace Mike Flanigin’s New LP With Billy Gibbons | Rolling Stone
Years before becoming the go-to organist for ZZ Top and Jimmie Vaughan, Mike Flanigin paid the bills as a lead guitarist. He’d play pick-up gigs and weekly shows in Austin, occasionally hitting the road as a sideman for touring groups like the Red D…
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Yasiin Bey Surprise-Releases Manic New Song, ‘Basquiat Ghostwriter’ | Rolling Stone
Yasiin Bey, the rapper and actor formerly known as Mos Def, has surprise-released an experimental new track, “Basquiat Ghostwriter,” inspired by police brutality and the art of Jean-Michel Basquiat.
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How Germany’s Surveillance Scandals Echo Our Own | The Nation
Given the depth, elegance, and intelligence of our national political life, it is understandably difficult to find energy and time to consider what is happening in nations culturally and politically close to us.
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What live peer review looks like when the planet is at stake – The Washington Post
Last month, a scientific paper appeared that kicked off what is, by any stretch, the most interesting climate science debate of the year.
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‘Straight Outta Compton’ Is The Rare Biopic Not About White Dudes | FiveThirtyEight
In theaters Friday, “Straight Outta Compton” tells the story of the hip-hop group N.W.A., five young rappers from Compton, California, who revolutionized rap and its place in the mainstream music industry in the 1980s. The film, which counts origina…
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California marijuana farmers face country’s first water-related regulations | US news | The Guardian
Regulators in California’s north coast region have passed the country’s first rules governing the water-related impact of marijuana cultivation. The new regulations will force pot growers to be responsible for any contamination of water or land degr…
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Why Pay Your Taxes? – The Business of Life (Episode 9 Trailer) | VICE News
The American tax code is one of the most impenetrable elements of our society. Surprising, considering how it affects your life every single day. On this episode of the Business of Life, we will show you exactly how your taxes are distributed—and wh…
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Australian court hands copyright trolls their own asses – Boing Boing
The studio behind “Dallas Buyers Club” will be able to demand that people caught downloading the movie without permission pay for the cost of a legit download, plus a small surcharge to cover the cost of getting their details through a court.
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Congress Wants to Reduce America’s Prison Population — But It’s Easier Said Than Done | VICE News
Momentum is building on Capitol Hill for legislation to reform the country’s prison system, with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle in both chambers working together to craft bills that could land on President Barack Obama’s desk before the end of…
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Moving On Up: Why ‘Sesame Street’ Is Heading To HBO | ThinkProgress
Sesame Workshop and HBO announced a new partnership on Thursday to bring children’s classic Sesame Street to a premium cable network best known for shows you would never let your children watch.
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EPA urges return to normalcy days after toxic Animas river spill | US news | The Guardian
Authorities are pushing residents to return to normal along the Animas river, where a spill of 3m gallons of acidic, heavy-metal laden mining waste turned the river a jarring yellow-orange for days.
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Cuban Political Activists Still Face Arrest and Detention | VICE News
In Havana’s Central Park, visitors have the opportunity to enjoy an idyllic Cuban scene: dashing men in white shirts and straw hats, elderly women in flowery skirts making cigars, children chasing soccer balls through the well-tended grass, and clas…
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Dave Franco to further drive down property values in Neighbors 2 · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Variety reports that Dave Franco will be reprising his role in next year’s Neighbors 2. In the 2014 original film, Franco played Pete, the chapter vice president of Delta Psi who had to hide his ambitions to not be a perennial wastoid, lest he be ca…
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Student suspended for tweeting two words will get to sue his school, police chief – Boing Boing
Rogers, MN honor student Reid Sagehorn was suspended after he tweeted two words, using his own device, on his own time, off school property. An anonymous website called “Roger Confessions” poked fun at Rogers High faculty and students.
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Cops Are Killed 3 Times More Often in States With More Guns, Study Shows | VICE News
VICE News is closely watching policing in America. Check out the Officer Involved blog here. It’s not just regular American citizens that are killed more often in states with higher private gun ownership — the lives of police officers are more at ri…
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Kaspersky Antivirus accused of creating fake malware for over 10 years
Here’s a crazy report: Kaspersky Lab, makers of a popular antivirus service, might have created fake malware for over ten years to harm its competitors. The software was benign, but Kaspersky fooled other antivirus software into marking it as infect…
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The big brains over at MIT have created a robot bartender and two robot servers that could possibly give the crew of your local Chili’s a run for their money.
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VR Watch: Can a new gathering be the Sundance of virtual reality? – LA Times
Whatever its other virtues, the burgeoning realm of virtual-reality cinema is not exactly known for its communal experiences. Users don a headset, stand in solitude even when in the middle of a crowd and generally try not to flail their arms in the …
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St John’s River from Above, outside Jacksonville FL. [OC][2368×3200] : EarthPorn
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What being an adult feels like : pics
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MRW Im at a party and see my gay friend making out with a girl : reactiongifs
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Highlights From NFL Training Camp – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Give your spam filter something to do. Give your spam filter something to do.
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The University of Virginia student who was filmed with blood pouring down his face as alcohol control agents wrestled him on the ground is set to sue the three officers involved in his arrest, the Guardian has learned.
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Green news roundup: Arctic oil, fracking and divestment update | Environment | The Guardian
If you wanted to tell a singing robin from a trilling wren, you once needed a lifetime’s ornithological knowledge. Not now, thanks to two new birdsong identifying apps. Warblr and Chirpomatic promise to name the trilling bird with a point and click …
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Activists to halt diggers at RWE coalfields in Germany | Environment | The Guardian
They are targeting RWE’s opencast lignite mine. Together with the energy company’s three power stations in the area, it makes up Europe’s biggest source of carbon dioxide, activists say.
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The Death of the Bond Girl Is the Best Thing That Happened to Women in | Vanity Fair
The phrase “Bond girl” itself will probably never die, but like “007” and “Moneypenny” and “M,” it’s a label that’s taken on many forms, and has now outgrown the bikini-clad, gold-drenched objects of yore to the point that it’s virtually unrecogniza…
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WASHINGTON — THE Iran nuclear deal offers a long-term solution to one of the most urgent threats of our time. Without this deal, Iran, the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, would be less than 90 days away from having enough fissile materia…
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DERRY, N.H. — Gov. John R.
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Snapchat’s GOP debate Live Story got twice as many 18-24 year olds as Fox News
Forget television—young adults are watching live events on Snapchat. Almost twice as many 18-24 year olds tuned into the GOP debate via Snapchat Live Story than TV, the company told Politico.
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Introducing The Startups Presenting At The NYC Meetup + Pitch-Off | TechCrunch
If you’re a frequent flyer over here in TechCrunch airspace, then you know that there is an upcoming Meetup + Pitch-off going down in NYC in but four short days.
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Destiny’s most powerful weapon is back on the market—for now
Destiny players break down into two groups: Those who have Gjallarhorn and love it, and those who don’t. Gjallarhorn’s rockets track targets, and do a tremendous amount of damage.
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“Beware of mice.” That quote, from Joanna Briscoe’s novel Sleep With Me, always comes to mind when someone mentions Winona Ryder, who is returning to film in Beetlejuice 2. Briscoe was writing about people who seem weak but always survive, who appea…
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General says US not giving up on training Syria rebels – Al Jazeera English
The US Army Chief of Staff has said Washington will not give up on the training programme it set up for Syrian rebels fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant group, despite a number of recent setbacks.
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Samsung’s proposed Internet satellites could bring access to 5 billion people
The Korean technology company’s research branch recently released a paper sketching out the deployment of thousands of “low-cost micro-satellites in Low-Earth Orbit [sic].
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In only one week, the corpses of four humpback whales have been found along Canada’s west coast, fueling questions of whether their deaths are connected to a recent uptick of whale and other marine animal deaths in Alaskan waters.
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US flag raised over American embassy in Cuba – in pictures | World news | The Guardian
US Marines raised the American flag over the newly reopened embassy in Havana Photograph: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close
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Author Naomi Novik Is Here to Talk About Uprooted
This month, io9 read Naomi Novik’s novel, Uprooted. Today, from 10 a.m. – 11 a.m. (Pacific time), she’ll be joining us to answer our questions about modern fairytales and folklore, the internal politics of fant… http://www.amazon.com/Uprooted-Naomi..
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Tritensil: a usable spork – Boing Boing
London’s Map Project studio created the bio-plastic Tritensil for notorious tax-dodging luxury department store Fortnum & Mason, where it is provided as a disposable all-purpose cutlery item in the store’s picnic hampers. Map’s solution is brilliant…
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We’re not sure how the math checks out on this, but earlier this month we reported on The Masked Saint, which some people are referring to as “Rowdy” Roddy Piper’s final film. Now, though, we have this trailer for Portal To Hell, which other people …
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Rabaa’s massacre: The political impact – Al Jazeera English
“His leg is broken. I cannot leave him here,” said a doctor in makeshift hospital in Rabaa al-Adawiya square to a special forces officer. “Don’t worry. I will break his heart,” replied the officer before putting a bullet in the injured protester’s c…
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My new Russian Blue, Penny! : cats
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After sitting through a 2 hr meeting and I finally get to pee : funny
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Social Security at 80: Seniors Are Working More – The Atlantic
On August 14, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law—which makes today its 80th anniversary. Current estimates from the Social Security Administration say its trust fund will run out by 2033—two years before th…
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Huckabee Checkmates Jeb’s 4% Growth Promise — NYMag
Jeb Bush has made the ludicrous promise that, if elected, his still to-be-determined economic program will launch the United States into 4 percent economic growth. Reuters reported out the genesis of this promise a few months ago.
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Like some kind of thespian Babe Ruth, Patrick Stewart called his role in the next Wolverine movie before even Hugh Jackman had definitely come on board (with luggage).
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HPL regular season concludes, top players prepare for playoffs
The inaugural season of the Hearthstone Pro League (HPL) concluded last night, with seven players booking their places in the playoffs to fight for the lion’s share of $60,000. CompLexity’s David “Dog” Caero topped the league with an 11-4 record.
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A depowered Superman takes on corrupt cops and city government · Big Issues · The A.V. Club
Each week, Big Issues focuses on a newly released comic book of significance. This week, it’s Action Comics #43.
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Letter From Belgorod | The Nation
On May 9, the shell-shocked Eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk celebrated. It was Victory Day, the annual commemoration of Germany’s surrender to the Soviet Union in 1945.
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Mongolia is awash in media choices, with even a remote yurt hooked up to 60 channels – LA Times
Deep in a desolate, rocky canyon, about 10 miles from the nearest paved road and even farther from any power line, Altai Davaa and her brother, Tsagaana, eke out a simple life. They sleep in a traditional Mongolian yurt, cook over a wood-fire stove,…
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The First Scientific Map of the Moon (1679): Can You Spot the Secret Moon Maiden? | Open Culture
Millions watched as astronaut Neil Armstrong put boots to the moon in 1969. It was, as he famously remarked, one “giant leap for mankind,” but from a scientific standpoint the territory was far from virgin.
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Traffic Cone Placement Specialist : gif
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VIDEO: Hurricane Katrina Didn’t Kill New Orleans—But It Almost Did | The Nation
At least seventy-one billion dollars in federal money has been spent on rebuilding New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina hit the city ten years ago.
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American flag raised at US embassy in Cuba – video | World news | The Guardian
The American flag is raised at the newly reopened US embassy in Havana, Cuba, on Friday morning. It is the first time the flag has been raised over the building in 54 years and signals a return to diplomatic relations between the two countries.
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The Man From U.N.C.L.E Proves That Style Is Substance
You want fun? You want fast? You want pretty? Go see The Man From U.N.C.L.E. But while you’re there, you might get something more. This movie is a lesson on style, and how it can be much more than just gloss.
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State Supreme Court Declares Death Penalty Unconstitutional | ThinkProgress
“[T]hroughout every period of our state’s history,” Justice Richard Palmer wrote in a Connecticut Supreme Court decision handed down on Thursday, “the death penalty has been imposed disproportionately on those whom society has marginalized socially,…
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The inevitable Caitlyn Jenner porn parody is coming
This article contains explicit material and may be NSFW. It’s been a big year for Jenner: introducing herself to America, landing the cover of Vanity Fair, and debuting her new E! reality series I Am Cait. And now, she’s getting the (highly predicta…
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Japan’s Leader Stops Short Of Explicit Apology For World War II-Era Actions – The Atlantic
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe acknowledged Friday, the 70th anniversary of his country’s surrender in World War II, that Japan inflicted “immeasurable damage and suffering” on innocent people.
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Keep on Trollin’, Mama (x-post from r/funny) : TrollXChromosomes
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Rogue Supernovas Observed in Deep Space –“An Astronomical Mystery”
Rogue supernovas that explode all alone in deep space present an astronomical mystery. Where did they come from? How did they get there? The likely answer: a binary black hole slingshot, according to a new study by Ryan Foley, a professor of astrono…
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ORANGE, CA—Surpassing their anxieties regarding public speaking, mass shootings, and natural disasters, Americans’ single greatest concern, according to the latest results of the Chapman Survey On American Fears released Friday, is that their waitre…
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Two little boys in Paris. 1962 : OldSchoolCool
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My dad in Nam 1970s : OldSchoolCool
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MRW I’m Jesus getting warmed up at Galilee : shittyreactiongifs
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Patience Mthunzi: Could we cure HIV with lasers? | TED Talk | TED.com
Swallowing pills to get medication is a quick, painless and often not entirely effective way of treating disease. A potentially better way? Lasers. In this passionate talk, TED Fellow Patience Mthunzi explains her idea to use lasers to deliver drugs…
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Gemini Planet Imager Makes 1st Exoplanet Discovery http://t.co/5wNd0r60bG http://t.co/PM3Rw4dDMM http://t.co/2ptCc3ummm
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Microsoft quietly rewrites its activation rules for Windows 10 | ZDNet
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Small Magellanic Cloud js – Just Space
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John Kerry formally reopened the US embassy in Cuba with a flag-raising ceremony on Friday, during the first visit to the country by a US secretary of state since 1945.
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European Entrepreneurs Launch StartupBoat To Address Refugee Crisis | TechCrunch
While many in Europe are sunning themselves on beaches, a group of young tech entrepreneurs and investors have grouped together to address the crisis of refugees, many from Syria, which have come to European shores in wave after wave this Summer.
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HitchBOT is avenged in this fake trailer for Coded To Kill · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
Philadelphia: Why the U.S. can’t have nice things? That’s a bit harsh on the City Of Brotherly Love, but then again, that same city was a bit harsh on poor, defenseless hitchBOT.
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Recent history demonstrates that if President Barack Obama, arguably the most powerful person on planet Earth, wants to prioritize almost anything – from pardoning 46 convicted drug felons to bombing a foreign country without the consent of Congress…
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US flag rises over Havana | TheHill
The Stars and Stripes are flying over the U.S. embassy in Cuba for the first time in 54 years.
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Faith Leaders Speak Out Against Attacks On Planned Parenthood | ThinkProgress
Faith groups are speaking out about their support for Planned Parenthood, offering a prayerful defense of the national women’s health organization after a series of misleading videos sparked a movement to end its federal funding. In early August, me…
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Nine banks including RBS settle $2bn forex rigging claim in US court | Business | The Guardian
Nine major banks including Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), HSBC and Barclays have settled a $2bn (£1.28bn) claim brought by investors in a US court for losses caused by the rigging of foreign exchange markets.
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Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux Are Having the Fanciest Honeymoon | Vanity Fair
What’d you do for your honeymoon? My parents went to New Hampshire. From Boston. A lovely time, sure, but not all that, y’know, exotic. Maybe you went to Hawaii? I was once on a plane and sitting in the row behind me were two alarmingly young newlyw…
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Iron Maiden Salute Video Games in New Video ‘Speed of Light’ | Rolling Stone
Iron Maiden have premiered the video for “Speed of Light,” the first single from their upcoming 16th studio album, the double-disc set The Book of Souls. The video was produced and directed by Llexi Leon, with animation and visual effects by the Bre…
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Beware, GIFs! This Party Is Coming for You.
Stare deep down into the abyss, GIFs, for something there awaits you: THIS PARTY.
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See Every Shade of Rainbow Worn by FKA Twigs | Vanity Fair
1/9We’re kicking things off with an all-red ensemble. FKA Twigs wore matching athletic Nike top and shorts with a sheer floral robe, perfect for the zaniness of Lollapalooza, which we covered this year.By Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images.+−zoom
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Inside Marty Stuart’s Forgotten Native American Opus ‘Badlands’ | Rolling Stone
When he hits the road this fall, Marty Stuart will take a few minutes to tell the story of Badlands: Ballads of the Lakota, his daring concept album about the Lakota Sioux, released 10 years ago this October.
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Watch Kristen Wiig, Fred Armisen Re-Dub ‘Late Night With Seth Meyers’ | Rolling Stone
Watch Kristen Wiig, Fred Armisen Re-Dub ‘Late Night With Seth Meyers’ Former ‘SNL’ castmates offer hilarious Australian takes on ‘Late Night’ interviews with Shaquille O’Neal, Helen Mirren
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Daily Cartoon: Friday, August 14th – The New Yorker
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US Flag Raised Over Embassy In Cuba | VICE News
US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Cuba on Friday to raise the American flag at the new embassy in Havana, over 40 year after the shuttering of the old diplomatic mission and the freezing of relations between the two nations.
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This crab claw grew another smaller claw. : mildlyinteresting
Aww, cripes. I didn’t know I’d have to write a description. How many words is that so far, like a hundred? Soooo, yeah. Mildly interesting stuff. Stuff that interests you. Mildly. It’s in the name, ffs. Does your post qualify for Mildly interesting?
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Gemini Planet Imager Makes 1st Exoplanet Discovery
The recently commissioned Gemini Planet Imager has made its first exoplanet discovery: what may be the lowest-mass exoplanet ever directly imaged with a space telescope instrument.
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The coding illusion: you don’t need tech skills to work at a startup
Admit it — for the 1.85 million students who just earned a college diploma, there’s no cooler calling right now than working at a fast-growing startup.
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Republicans mull how to do pointless Obamacare repeal and leave enough time for shutdown fight
A tag is a way to search for this diary. If someone is searching for “Barack Obama,” is this a diary they’d be trying to find? Use a person’s full name, without any title. Senator Obama may become President Obama, and Michelle Obama might run for of…
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Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge 3-month review: I’m worried about the S6 Edge+
Yesterday, Samsung revealed its worst kept secrets of 2015 – the Galaxy S6 Edge+ and the Galaxy Note 5.
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The Gunshy finds contentment on its new track · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Having gone through various permutations and lineups over its years together, Chicago’s The Gunshy has always rallied around frontman Matt Arbogast. Having used the moniker since 2002, Arbogast has amassed a large body of work, and on October 23 The…
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WATCH: McDonalds imagines us all with emoji heads
McDonald’s France has put together a spot advertising its wares by showing the world if it were populated by humans with emoji heads. Oddly, no one seems to have told the company that we have multi-racial emoji now so it’s just the classic yellow ve…
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The Fundraising Field Guide is a self-help book for capital-seeking startups
Seedcamp is one of the better-known early-stage startup programs in Europe. Based out of London, it has backed over 180 companies since it was founded in 2007.
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This week in tech news has been huge. A market-shaking announcement in Google’s restructuring spiked the company’s stock by 6 percent. Index filed 138 funding events this week. Median investment amount was $1.7 million, a decrease of 66 percent comp…
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CBS adds Training Day series to its roster of cop shows · Newswire · The A.V. Club
Deadline reports that CBS has won a four-way bidding war for that Training Day series that Antoine Fuqua only recently said he wants to do. The network has committed to producing a pilot for the show, which Fuqua will executive produce with Jerry Br…
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Churro & Horchata Ice Cream Sandwich : food
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal – The League of Curmudgeons http://t.co/fe7thAAGVt http://t.co/YoGlaXB1Sb http://t.co/8hoY3IQspC
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
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‘History Is Harsh’: Japan Isn’t Saying Sorry for World War II | VICE News
In a highly anticipated statement to mark the 70th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe acknowledged on Friday that his country inflicted “immeasurable damage and suffering” on innocent people in World…
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Take a world religions class and you’ll see every religion started like Scientology – Imgur
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CAN YOU FEEL IT COMING IN THE AIR TONIGHT?!?!?! – GIF on Imgur
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Watch Live: John Kerry to Raise US Flag in Cuba | VICE News
US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Cuba on Friday to raise the American flag at the new embassy in Havana, over 40 year after the shuttering of the old diplomatic mission and the freezing of relations between the two nations.
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Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly Collaborate on New Film, *Shelter* | Vanity Fair
Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly met while acting in 2001’s A Beautiful Mind, for which Connelly nabbed a best-supporting-actress Oscar.
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Will Protests and Donations Save the Chimps of ‘Monkey Island’? | VICE News
I first heard about “Monkey Island” during my time in the US military in Liberia.
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Every Single Explosion in Every Single Arnold Schwarzenegger Movie
It’s the supercut to end all supercuts! Arnold Schwarzenegger himself assembled this collection of the explosions features in all his movies—okay, he probably hired a team to do it, but I love the idea of Arnold hunched over a MacBook fiddling with …
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Why Black Lives Matter and Bernie Sanders are good for each other
Black Lives Matter and Bernie Sanders have a rocky relationship—and that might be a good thing for both sides of the chants.
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“Hope” by Wang Ling. : ImaginaryMindscapes
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Skyline of Guangzhou, China [989×682] : CityPorn
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Meatpacking District, New York City (from the Whitney Museum) [9038×2980] : CityPorn
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MY SISTER INVITED my mother to my bachelorette party. I don’t know why. It was miserable and I couldn’t relax and just enjoy the evening. It kind of became about her, and not me. In hindsight, I wish I’d skipped the tradition altogether and just had…
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Silkie – Love Affair Official Music Video on Vimeo
Silkie – Love Affair Official Music Video Animation : Simon Landrein Label : Anarchostar Catalog # : ANRCHSTR 002 Creative Producers : Distal & Freshcore Purchase the vinyl : Anarchostar.com/shop Read & Listen to more of the Anarchostar : Anarchosta…
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Miley Cyrus Says Starring on Hannah Montana May Have Given Her “Body Dysmorphia” | Vanity Fair
It is possible to forget now that the Miley Cyrus we know as the free-spirited, twerk-happy pop star was introduced to the world as a sanitized Disney Channel–branded television phenomenon.
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Babies Make You Sad, and Other Bleak News for New Parents | Vanity Fair
My boyfriend and I have been together for 25 years, which is an unconscionable amount of time for people our age, gay or not.
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We can’t stop listening to crappy song covers played on the recorder
While there is no way to empirically prove this, I feel like it’s objectively true, and that most people with ears would agree. I cannot think of a musical artifact with less cultural cache.
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Straight Outta Compton Is Missing One Thing: Self-Reflection | WIRED
Straight Outta Compton is by no means a comedy, but it has its share of laugh lines, and the biggest one comes right around the movie’s halfway point, as N.W.A is on tour for the first time and enjoying the fruits of their newfound fame.
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Do you know snow? Take our quiz on snowmelt and climate change – quiz | Environment | The Guardian
Much of the western US is currently on fire, with 55 wildfires burning across the country. In the parched state of California, snowpack stood at just 6% of average by the end of last winter, followed by one of the driest summers on record.
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Nancy Jo Sales’s Star Trek Convention 2015 Road Trip | Vanity Fair
My daughter’s a Trekkie. It all started when she was eight and saw an episode of Star Trek for the first time. “Mommy,” she told me, “I want to fly on that ship.” Over the years she has shown an interest in learning Vulcan calligraphy and watching K…
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I walked to the woods to unlock this Swedish band’s album
If a band releases an album on an app that only plays when you’re in the woods, does it make a sound? The short answer: It’s complicated.
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A “double-ender” military locomotive for trench railways in France, built in 1915 by an American manufacturer to a French design. Whole economies during the First World War were geared to mass manufacturing supplies for armies engaged in the despera…
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Jeb Bush Said The Iraq War Was A ‘Good Deal.’ Here’s Exactly What It Cost. | ThinkProgress
In recent days, Jeb Bush has decided to focus his campaign on Iraq. Earlier this week he pinned the blame for the current instability in the country on Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
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Plant a garden with a cute little ghost – Offworld
Pol Clarissou’s Lil Ghost Garden, made for the virtual pet-themed PetJam, is a pleasant desktop companion. I love the design of his ghost character, a sympathetic looming moonface whose shadow body trundles dutifully around what begins as a sparse g…
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Police Arrest People Sneaking Into Stinky Sewer — NYMag
The New York City Police Department is still somewhat baffled by the fact it had to arrest three somewhat-stinky and muck-covered men who broke into the sewer and went on a treasure hunt for four hours on Wednesday.
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Hanging out in a Japanese garden : woahdude
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0 Miles to Wall Drug: A Half-Day at the World’s Largest Drugstore | Broadly
A game I sometimes like to play with people is called Guess What Beyoncé Is Doing Right Now. I am reasonably certain I invented this game, which is actually two games. The first game is to guess what American celebrity Beyoncé (net worth ~$450 milli…
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New Balance “Real Ale” Pack Turns Craft Beer Into Lust-Worthy Sneakers | Complex
There’s a strong chance that someone won’t visit Flimby, Cumbria, in their lifetime.
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Easton by Emmanuel Cole / 500px
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The World of Hidden Technology Underground – The Atlantic
Imagine you’re a conflicted lawmaker in the U.S. Congress. You’ve heard all the arguments about the Iran nuclear agreement, pro and con. A vote on the deal is coming up in September and you have to make a decision. But you are torn. Most of your col…
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Narrator (tough, grunge voice): If you think sixteen Republicans trying to get into the White House is a lot, wait’ll you see the guns. At least forty guns are campaigning to be in the Oval Office, too.
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U.S. Flag to Fly Once Again Over Embassy in Havana – The Atlantic
Imagine you’re a conflicted lawmaker in the U.S. Congress. You’ve heard all the arguments about the Iran nuclear agreement, pro and con. A vote on the deal is coming up in September and you have to make a decision. But you are torn. Most of your col…
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Why ‘Things Fitting Perfectly Into Other Things’ Is So Satisfying – The Atlantic
“I think in the times in which we live, we are so inundated with so many things, that to be able to bring order to things that don’t necessarily go together, to make them fit, provides some sort of comfort in a world where there’s all sorts of diffe…
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In his extremely long and detailed essay “Star Wars Ring Theory”, Mike Klimo argues for a reexamination of the Star Wars prequel movies.
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Kosovo makes its world swimming titles debut – Al Jazeera English
Seven years after independence from Serbia, Kosovo has competed in the World Swimming Championships for the first time in Russia. Despite not recognising the country’s passports, Russian authorities made an exception for this event.
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11-Year-Old Rape Victim Gives Birth After Being Denied An Abortion | ThinkProgress
An 11-year-old girl in Paraguay who became pregnant after being raped by her stepfather — and whose case sparked international outrage after Paraguayan officials prohibited her from getting an abortion — has given birth to a daughter.
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Microsoft quietly rewrites its activation rules for Windows 10 | ZDNet
Windows product keys are almost (but not quite) a thing of the past. With Windows 10, Microsoft has rewritten the rules for how it performs product activation on retail upgrades of Windows, including the free upgrades available for a year beginning …
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Week In Images / Highlights / ESA
What a difference a year can make. Rosetta arrived at Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko on 6 August 2014, achieving rendezvous at a distance of 100 km before moving even closer to the nucleus in the following weeks.
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Court Rules Against Colorado Baker in Same-Sex Marriage Case | Rolling Stone
A Colorado appellate court on Thursday ruled against Lakewood, Colorado’s Masterpiece Cakeshop and its owner, Jack Phillips, who refused to create a cake for the wedding reception of two men, Charlie Craig and David Mullins, in 2012.
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Neon Indian Preps Funky New LP, U.S. Tour | Rolling Stone
Neon Indian gets funky on his third LP, VEGA INTL. Night School, out October 16th via Mom and Pop/Transgressive. The electronic artist (real name Alan Palomo) will promote the 14-track album with a fall tour kicking off September 29th in Manor, Texa…
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CNN executive flies to Kenya to apologise for ‘hotbed of terror’ claim | World news | The Guardian
A senior CNN executive has flown to Nairobi to apologise for coverage calling the country a “hotbed of terror” ahead of Barack Obama’s visit in July.
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Dolly Parton, Jennifer Nettles Preview ‘Coat of Many Colors’ Movie | Rolling Stone
Dolly Parton and NBC are stitching together a family-friendly event with the TV-movie Coat of Many Colors, set to premiere around the holidays.
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Why Residents of Mexico City Are Organizing Themselves Against Parking Meters | VICE News
Mariela paid a meter for two hours to park on Amsterdam Avenue in Condesa, a trendy neighborhood in the middle of Mexico City. She paid with coins, and claimed to have returned shortly before her paid time was up, only to find her car had been clamp…
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Here’s How Those Gigantic Tianjin Explosions Appeared From Space
It’s been about 48 hours since a pair of explosions rocked the Chinese port city of Tianjin. At a force approaching two dozen tons of TNT, they registered as seismic activity by China’s National Earthquake Network. And as these satellite images show…
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Gawker Reptile Zoo Rescues 150 Goddamn Crocodiles From Strange Man’s Home | Jalopnik Here Are Some Of The Worst Van Names Ever | Kotaku Sources: When You Work At Konami, Big Brother Is Always Watching | Lifehacker I Actually Really Like My Laptop’s …
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Chandimal’s heroics inspire Sri Lankan fightback – Al Jazeera English
Dinesh Chandimal inspired a Sri Lankan fightback with an attacking unbeaten 162, his highest score, as the hosts set India a target of 176 on the third day on Friday to win the opening test at Galle.
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Bangladesh widens operation to catch killers of blogger – Al Jazeera English
Bangladesh has widened its police operation in pursuit of more people suspected of being involved in the killing of a Dhaka-based blogger, a day after the arrest of two individuals allegedly linked to the case.
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Stop Kidding Yourself. A Classic Car Is (Almost) Never a Good Investment – Bloomberg Business
A Ferrari 365 from 1972 is expected to fetch somewhere around $450,000 during the annual Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance in Monterey, Calif. this weekend. When it was last bought in 2008, the car was worth $160,000.
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Donald Trump owns vast numbers of web addresses – Boing Boing
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Hillary Is Reportedly Spending $100,000 on a Hamptons Rental | Vanity Fair
The eternal struggle between two ideologies—“Hillary Clinton is a champion of the Everyday Americans” and “Hillary Clinton is a a conduit for big-money interests”—continues anew with reports that she and her husband Bill Clinton have spent $100,000 …
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jEugene Detects Errors In Legal Documents, Saving Time And Money | TechCrunch
Legal documents. If they didn’t already bore you to death imagine having to find the mistakes in them. This is the role of quite a number of poor humans who must screen these things, or suffer hefty losses when something goes wrong.
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Man not allowed to pay $25 parking ticket with 2500 pennies – Boing Boing
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Retrospective of legendary 808 drum machine – Boing Boing
Chris Norris reports on how the Roland TR-808 Rhythm Controller, an unsuccessful drum machine, became the key musical instrument of a generation. Can anyone vouch for the Roland Aira TR-8, which supposedly recreates both the 808 and the 909?
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How hard is it to find the original 1977 Star Wars? – Boing Boing
It’s nearly impossible, writes fan Sean Hutchison, who is into Star Wars enough to know it’s better, and hates not being able to see it: “I couldn’t shake the question: Am I a Star Wars fraud for having never seen them?”
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The Hall of Nations area towards the British Pavilion at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York. (Photo: Library of Congress) The World’s Fair of 1939-1940 was conceived as a way to pull New York out of the doldrums of the Great Depression.
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Well There’s Your Problem : gif
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[NSFL]DONT CLIK!!! IM WARNING U YOU WILL BE SPOOPED!!!1 via /r/ledootgeneration http://t.co/4jlMU1RnBa http://t.co/4z1ju9mbEr
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To please an owl via /r/gifs http://t.co/7QV9OD9aTd http://t.co/wwLr13oRBo
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Plan B · Under The Dome · TV Review · The A.V. Club
“Plan B” isn’t a title that should fill Under The Dome viewers with confidence, especially since we’ve reached the part of the season by which the writers have traditionally already plowed through Plans C, D and F.
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“Mom, he’s too hot and he needs a fan.” Imagine waking up to this. – Imgur
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Current El Niño Could Be Strongest on Record – Scientific American
The strengthening climate phenomenon could have a big impact on U.S. weather How much sea surface temperatures departed from the 1981-2010 average during the week of Aug. 10, 2015.
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Rubio Blasts Obama’s Normalization With ‘Tyrannical Dictatorship’ In Cuba | ThinkProgress
Just before the American flag will rise for the first time in more than 50 years at the newly reopened U.S. embassy in Havana, Cuba on Friday, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) blasted the current administration for expanding trade and travel with the former …
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Invertebrates Are Forgotten Victims Of ‘Sixth Extinction’ – Scientific American
When you think endangered species, which come to mind? Tigers? Pandas? Gorillas? I’m guessing what probably does not are Hawaiian land snails. Yet a new analysis in the journal Conservation Biology suggests that some 95 percent of known Hawaiian lan…
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A New York City firefighter was shot on Friday morning during a standoff with a man who has been holed up for hours inside a Staten Island apartment, the police said.The firefighter was struck in the lower leg and hip, and has been hospitalized and …
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WASHINGTON — Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. is vacationing on Kiawah Island off South Carolina’s coast, riding bikes and walking the beaches with his family.
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TOKYO — In a keenly awaited statement on Friday to observe the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan acknowledged dark moments in his country’s past and endorsed the repeated apologies his predecessors had m…
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A day after the N.F.L. and Tom Brady faced off in federal court over his suspension for his role in the deflation of footballs used in last season’s A.F.C. championship game, he started in the New England Patriots’ preseason opener Thursday against …
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The week in wildlife – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian
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How Climate Change Is Melting Polar History | Atlas Obscura
One of the many problems with maintaining a tourist attraction in Antarctica is that an iceberg might block the access of the people who are trying to visit.
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How The Brain ‘Sees’ Dreams – Digg
We’ve known for some time that our eyes move around during the dreaming phase of sleep, much like when we’re awake and looking at a visual scene. The phase of sleep is called rapid eye movement sleep, or REM sleep.
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Curious and excited goose follows a man to a lake
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Meet the Women Who Pick Up the Pieces After Their Husbands Come Out | Out Magazine
Photography by Ryan Collerd. Bonnie Kaye is 63 and runs a GED center in a blighted stretch of northeast Philadelphia. She has weary eyes. It may be from recent health problems, complications from diabetes. Yet so much more about Kaye seems, simply, …
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Scotland Will Bar All Genetically Modified Crops – Scientific American
The Scottish government has announced that it intends to ban the cultivation of GM crops approved by EU regulatory authorities within its borders.
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Book Review: Life’s Greatest Secret – Scientific American
After Catholic monk Gregor Mendel discovered the laws of inheritance—how traits are passed on from parents to offspring—in the 1860s, his work was ignored for 35 years.
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The Pleiades Open Cluster js – Just Space
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Stephen Colbert Shares Why He Thinks Women Should Be in Charge of Everything: Glamour.com
First off, it’s an honor to be writing for Glamour, a magazine so sophisticated it has an extra u in the title. All the finest publications do, like The New Yourker and Rolling Stoune. I want to thank the staff of Glamour for asking me to contribute.
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Somebody Gave Us a Spork We Actually Want to Use | WIRED
The sporf is an unsolvable design problem. Think about it: It’s a tool with three jobs—it’s a fork, a spoon and a knife—but isn’t equipped to do any of them well. The utensil was pretty much born to fail.
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Here Is Your WIRED Star Wars Challenge for Day 103 | 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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Money-Saving Tips Will Ensure You Get The Most Out Of Your Groceries : dataisbeautiful
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Radical Thoughts on the Streets of London (Excerpt from ‘The Islamist Boxer’) | VICE News
Former professional boxer Anthony Small, has been cleared of plotting to leave Britain to join Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria. Small’s flourishing boxing career came to an end when he converted to Islam at the age of 24.
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‘Southern-ish’ State University Pilots Nation’s First LGBT Med School Curriculum | VICE News
This story is part of a partnership between MedPage Today and VICE News. The drag show’s host, Jenna Jive, took the microphone with her backstage so that her voice would continue to fill the neon-lit room of patrons at Play Dance Bar in Louisville, …
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How A Bunch Of Batteries In A Parking Garage Can Help Save The World | ThinkProgress
In the basement garage of a high-end apartment building in the middle of New York City, a few electricians are quietly installing a century-old product that is now poised to revolutionize an industry — and maybe lead the United States into a carbon-…
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A Panel Orders A Retrial In The Brutal Mob-Killing Of An Afghan Woman | ThinkProgress
In March, a 27-year-old woman was brutally killed by a mob of men in the center of Kabul. Lawyers appointed by Afghanistan’s president have called for a retrial.
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TetraScience’s Internet-Of-Instruments Could Supercharge Research | TechCrunch
There are estimated to be over 13 million scientists globally, almost all of whom have to enter the results of their work manually, often by hand in a notebook. Sure, much of it gets entered into computers. But time is wasted managing data, and prod…
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Connecticut Court Strikes Down State Death Penalty – ABC News
Connecticut’s highest court has struck down the state’s death penalty, sparing the lives of 11 killers on death row in a ruling that adds momentum to a nationwide movement to abolish executions.
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Man Dies When Hit by Roller Coaster — NYMag
A 45-year-old teacher was killed at Cedar Point yesterday after being hit by a roller coaster while looking for a cell phone he had dropped on the same ride earlier that day. Authorities were not sure if James A.
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Hear Kinky Friedman and Willie Nelson’s Stoned ‘Bloody Mary Morning’ | Rolling Stone
At 70 years old, Kinky Friedman — Jewish cowboy, former Texas gubernatorial candidate, cultural satirist, author, singer-songwriter and campaigner against the scourge of political correctness — has recorded his first studio album in nearly 40 years.
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WASHINGTON — Secretary of State John Kerry will arrive in Cuba on Friday morning to attend a flag-raising ceremony at the American Embassy and to give a lift to the effort to rebuild ties after more than half a century of hostility. But Mr.
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Top US diplomat flies to Cuba for new policy victory lap
HAVANA (AP) — Washington’s top diplomat is coming to Havana on Friday to raise the Stars and Stripes over the newly opened U.S. Embassy, making a symbolically charged victory lap for the Obama administration’s new policy of engagement with Cuba. Ord…
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I feel like I wasted my money. : AdviceAnimals
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Staghorn Fern (Platycerium bifurcatum) on a Live Oak [1200×900] [OC] : BotanicalPorn
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This is my friend’s little man Loki, apparently he makes this face a lot : cats
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Is India practising discriminatory justice? – Al Jazeera English
On the late afternoon of July 30, under the surveillance of cameras and watchful glare of Mumbai’s police chief and his entire 41,000 armed police force, nearly ten thousand Muslims gathered to pay their respects in prayer as Yakub Memon’s dead body…
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Explore the legacy of Sonic the Hedgehog in these truly weird minigames – Offworld
When I wrote an article about how “gamer culture” was gross, irrelevant and false, a hate mob swarmed our advertisers and I was one of the women who got death threats for months.
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A Lion cub loves his caretaker. : aww
His Instagram account is really awesome. BlackJaguarWhiteTiger is his handle. He constantly posts videos just like this (and with mature big cats too!). I’m going to follow him. Thanks for posting!
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Cotopaxi in Ecuador Erupts for First Time Since 1940s | WIRED
Ecuador was greeted this morning with a coating of ash from Cotopaxi. This eruption would be its first since explosions rocked the volcano in 1940 and possibly 1942. Today’s eruption was quite small — two explosions that rained ash (see below) on th…
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Significant Digits For Friday, Aug. 14, 2015 | FiveThirtyEight
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. Jimmy Fallon is going to be on the Tonight Show through 2021. The host recently re-upped with NBC, signing a six-year deal. [Associated Press]
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Japanese leader Abe stops short of apology for World War II
TOKYO (AP) — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Friday that Japan’s past “heartfelt apologies” for World War II will remain unshakeable in the future, but stopped short of apologizing again in a statement marking the 70th anniversary of the country’s su…
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Rocket League leaps into Twitch’s most-watched games
The latest sensation in competitive gaming has taken Twitch by storm. Rocket League, the game of soccer featuring a giant bouncing ball and two teams of rocket-powered race cars, has already sold over 5 million copies. And as more people play it, mo…
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The Ethics of Bloodless Medicine – The New Yorker
This is the third in a three-part series, “Medicine Without Blood,” about the ways that Jehovah’s Witnesses have changed the way doctors think about blood transfusion.
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China Gambles with the Yuan – The New Yorker
If you’re confused by what’s been happening to China’s currency over the past few days, don’t feel bad. The wild ride that the yuan has taken has left plenty of people perplexed, including, perhaps, China’s very own policymakers.
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Colourful Dartmoor in late summer (OC) [1024×683]. : EarthPorn
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China explosions: Fires still burning after Tianjin blasts – BBC News
Fires are still burning at the site of two massive explosions in the Chinese city of Tianjin, some 36 hours after the blasts. At least 50 people died and hundreds were injured, 71 critically, in the explosions on Wednesday evening.
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Sports quiz of the week: Premier League, US PGA Championship, Ashes and NFL | Sport | The Guardian
Tiger Woods at the US PGA Championship. Photograph: Tom Pennington/Getty Images
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I wanted to post something for everyone on Imgur in one post – GIF on Imgur
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Assange allegations dropped, but he’s not going anywhere – Boing Boing
Two allegations of sexual assault leveled against Julian Assange by Swedish police were dropped Thursday due to that nation’s statute of limitations. But he still faces a more serious rape allegation and remains subject to if ever he leaves the Ecua…
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Daily Kos Radio is LIVE at 9 am ET!
Ways to Listen to Kagro in the Morning: Your options to listen LIVE: Click on the embedded player above Go to netrootsradio.
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Most popular phone brands in each country from 2010 – 2015 [OC] : dataisbeautiful
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Similarities between representatives in Slovenian parliament [OC] : dataisbeautiful
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Candidates In Donald Trump’s Position Have A Terrible Track Record | FiveThirtyEight
Polls show Donald Trump leading in the Republican presidential primary. He’s leading nationally. He’s leading in Iowa. He’s leading in New Hampshire. That’s right — Donald Trump may end up winning … “Polling Leader for the Summer of 2015.”
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Georgia Court To Weigh Destiny of 18 Beluga Whales | Al Jazeera America
A U.S. court hearing on the fate of 18 beluga whales captured in Russia was expected on Friday to pit federal regulators against the Georgia aquarium seeking to bring the whales to the United States. U.S.
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Former EU climate chief Hedegaard backs fossil fuel divestment | Environment | The Guardian
The EU’s former climate commissioner is backing fossil fuel divestment to support a UN carbon-cutting pact in Paris this December.
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‘Top secret’ Clinton emails include discussion of US drone operation | US news | The Guardian
The two emails on Hillary Rodham Clinton’s private server that an auditor deemed “top secret” include a discussion of a news article detailing a US drone operation and a separate conversation that could point back to highly classified material in an…
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US PGA Championship 2015: second round – live! | Sport | The Guardian
David Lingmerth is quickly building something of a reputation as a fast starter. Last month, he played the first nine holes of this year’s Open Championship in 29 strokes. Then yesterday, he played the first nine holes of his PGA bid in 31. This is …
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Flying nannies are joining the ranks of the 1%. KKR & Co – the New York private equity firm once dubbed “the barbarians at the gate” for its tough guy tactics – has rolled out a new perk for its employees: travelling childcare for its staff.
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Last week, Amalgamated Bank announced that under its latest contract, all of its bank workers will earn a starting wage of at least $15 an hour.
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Bernie Sanders largely unknown to Latino voters – but has room for growth | US news | The Guardian
Bernie Sanders has surged in the Democratic primary campaign with a cry of “Feel the Bern”, but when it comes to Latinos the Vermont senator is feeling the wrong kind of heat.
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Six Sentenced to Death for Massacre of 132 Schoolchildren in Pakistan | VICE News
Pakistani military courts have sentenced six Islamic militants to death over their link to a horrific massacre at a school in Peshawar in December that resulted in the deaths of more than 150 people — mostly schoolchildren.
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“As you swim, you are washed of all the excrescences of so-called civilization, which includes the incapacity to be happy under any circumstances.
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Friendly European mink really wants fisherman’s catch
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