
10/15/2015
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motherjones:
“ The average presidential candidate’s house Is twice as big as the average American’s
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motherjones:
“ The average presidential candidate’s house Is twice as big as the average American’s
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pewresearch:
“ Puerto Rico’s nearly decade-long economic recession has led to people leaving the island for the mainland in numbers not seen in more than 50 years, new Pew Research Center analysis of Census Bureau data has found.
Puerto Ricans leave in record numbers for mainland U.S. ”
Don't pack lithium batteries in your bags, FAA warns
Don't pack lithium batteries in your bags, FAA warns http://www.nbcnews.com/business/travel/dont-pack-lithium-batteries-your-bags-faa-warns-n444276
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micdotcom:
“ Emma Watson gave a smart response to being asked if she’s “white feminist” When someone on Twitter asked Emma Watson, “Are you a white feminist?” they likely were not prepared for the informed soliloquy that would follow. In a viral tweet photo, Watson explained that she wants nothing short of inclusivity and has launched many efforts to raise up voices that aren’t her own.
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mapsontheweb:
“ World’s longest domestic flight operated by Air Austral.
From Paris-CDG to St-Denis-RUN : 9,3486 km in ~11h.
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Refugee rhetoric echoes 1938 summit before Holocaust, UN official warns
Refugee rhetoric echoes 1938 summit before Holocaust, UN official...
Inside the MSF Hospital in Kunduz
Inside the MSF Hospital in Kunduz http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/10/13/inside-msf-hospital-kunduz-afghanistan-taliban-us-attack/
Gun Shop Ordered To Pay Millions For Selling Firearm That Injured Two Police Officers - BuzzFeed News
Gun Shop Ordered To Pay Millions For Selling Firearm That Injured Two Police Officers - BuzzFeed...
Nestlé Is Illegally Bottling Water Amid California's Drought, Lawsuit Says - BuzzFeed News
Bernie Sanders and guns, explained
Bernie Sanders and guns, explained http://www.vox.com/2015/10/13/9514933/bernie-sanders-gun-control-democratic-debate
Guinea election: Poll valid but disorganised - EU monitors - BBC News
Guinea election: Poll valid but disorganised - EU monitors - BBC...
futurescope:
“ The World’s Smallest Robots: Rise of the Nanomachines This short documentary by the The American Chemical Society & the University of Nebraska about nanomachines is worth a watch. Not the ususal #transhumancyborgswilldisruptyourfutures...
futurescope: “ The World’s Smallest Robots: Rise of the Nanomachines This short documentary by the The American Chemical Society & the University of Nebraska about nanomachines is worth a watch. Not...
U.S. to raise Iranian missile test at U.N. Security Council
U.S. to raise Iranian missile test at U.N. Security...
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humanrightswatch:
“ Taliban Unrolls its Media Hit List The latest addition to the Taliban hit list are two of Afghanistan’s largest TV channels: 1TV and TOLO News. On October 12, the Taliban issued a statement on its website disputing a recent report by the two channels and said that the outlets’ employees were now “enemy personnel” who would be “considered military objectives” to be “directly eliminated.”
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Israel Set to Deploy Troops to Quell Palestinian Attacks
Israel Set to Deploy Troops to Quell Palestinian...
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humanrightswatch:
“ The Tragic Civilian Toll of Airstrikes in Yemen One night in July, as they slept in their home in central Yemen, Sabah and her family were awakened by loud explosions nearby. Terrified, Sabah took her family outside, including her daughter, who had just given birth. “All of a sudden the windows in our house shattered and the roof collapsed,” she told me as we sat among the ruins of her house a few days after the airstrike. When the dust settled, Sabah discovered that six houses had been destroyed and 16 people were dead, including her two brothers and their children.
Sabah’s family got caught up in the war that has been raging in Yemen since last year.
Read more
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cnet:
“ Watch a floating blue ball of water effervesce in space in glorious 4K
Take a ball of water in microgravity. Add coloured dye and an effervescent tablet. Film the fascinating results.
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micdotcom:
“ To raise awareness for suicide rates on college campuses in the United States, Active Minds is placing 1,100 empty backpacks on school grounds across the country. One for each college suicide in America each year. Titled Send Silence Packing, each bag contains information about someone who died by suicide.
Need help? In the U.S., call 1-800-273-8255 for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline or chat online.
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Exclusive: Syrian army, allies preparing attack in Aleppo area - sources
Exclusive: Syrian army, allies preparing attack in Aleppo area -...
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afp-photo:
“ INDIA, GANDHINAGAR : Indian folk dancers display ornaments during a break while participating in the first night of Navratri in Gandhinagar, some 30 km from Ahmedabad, on October 13, 2015. Navratri festivities, or Dance Festival of Nine Nights, takes place between October 13-21. AFP PHOTO / Sam PANTHAKY
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Prosecutor Says She Has Evidence to Probe Russia-Georgia War Crimes
Prosecutor Says She Has Evidence to Probe Russia-Georgia War...
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afp-photo:
“ INDONESIA, SURABAYA : Locals gather around the carcass of a dead whale shark, caught by fishermen in the sea off of Surabaya, on the East Java island, on October 12, 2015. Fishermen originally planned to cut the giant fish measuring seven meters and weighing two tons and sell its meat but authorities from local fishery agencies arrived and negotiated with villagers to bury the whaleshark. Indonesia in 2013 has declared the whale shark a protected species, including it in the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s red list of threatened species. Despite their mammoth size, these docile sharks, the largest fish in the sea, are filter feeders and are harmless to humans. AFP PHOTO / JUNI KRISWANTO
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Support for Merkel's bloc slips to lowest since June 2014 over refugee crisis
Support for Merkel's bloc slips to lowest since June 2014 over refugee...
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skunkbear:
“ On April 26, 1986, a power surge caused an explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat, Ukraine. A large quantity of radioactive material was released.
On May 2, 1986, the Soviet government established a “Zone of Alienation” or “Exclusion Zone” around Chernobyl – a thousand square miles of “radioactive wasteland.” All humans were evacuated. The town of Pripyat was completely abandoned.
But the animals didn’t leave. And a new study, published this month in Current Biology, suggests they are doing fine. “None of our three hypotheses postulating radiation damage to large mammal populations at Chernobyl were supported by the empirical evidence,” says Jim Beasley, one of the researchers.
In fact, some of the populations have grown. These photos (mostly taken by Valeriy Yurko) come from the Belarusian side of the Exclusion Zone, and area called the Polessye State Radioecological Reserve. Kingfisher, elk, boar, baby spotted eagles, wild ponies, moose, rabbits, and wolves all make their home in the park. In some ways, human presence is worse for wildlife than a nuclear disaster.
Image credits:
• 1986 Chernobyl - ZUFAROV/AFP/Getty Images
• Wildlife photos - Valeriy Yurko/Polessye State Radioecological Reserve
• Ponies in winter - SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP/Getty Images
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theeconomist:
“ The Man Booker prize
On October 13th Marlon James became the first Jamaican to win the £50,000 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Set in Jamaica, where Mr James was born, his winning book, “A Brief History of Seven Killings”, is a fictional account of the real attempt on Bob Marley’s life in 1976.
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U.S. Examines Goldman Sachs Role in 1MDB Transactions
U.S. Examines Goldman Sachs Role in 1MDB...
Archaeologists memorialize the historic chancel burials at Jamestown
archaeologicalnews:
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It stands no more, but the first chapel ever to be built on the North American continent by early English settlers has its successor in a newly reconstructed...
Australian PM under pressure to act on asylum detention policy
Australian PM under pressure to act on asylum detention...
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aljazeeraamerica:
“ Civil tone aside, Democratic debate exposes rifts on key liberal issues
Israel deploys troops, OKs police sealing off of East Jerusalem
What’s the matter with Arkansas? Prison, jail suits signal...
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micdotcom:
“ Scientists have spotted a group of potentially unnatural “megastructures” in deep space Scientists, have become increasingly feverish over a new Kepler Space Telescope discovery between the constellations Cygnus and Lyra. A series of irregularities between a star and the light it emits has led at least one expert to conclude that the star is being orbited by a number of strange objects, which could be more than just asteroids.
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micdotcom:
“ Here’s what politics looks like if you take out the men Out of the 22 people running for president in 2016, only two of them are women. Elle U.K. is confronting this imbalance directly through the magazine’s #MoreWomen campaign, launched on Oct. 1 to celebrate women’s global power. Their eye-opening launch video shows how easy it is to make full rooms seemingly sparse.
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With the Ebola epidemic nearly over, Paul Farmer has ideas about how to prevent the next one
With the Ebola epidemic nearly over, Paul Farmer has ideas about how to prevent the next one http://www.vox.com/2015/10/7/9466405/paul-farmer-profile
Seven killed in shootings, grenade attack in Burundi capital: police, residents
Seven killed in shootings, grenade attack in Burundi capital: police,...
7,000 year old Siberian warrior: more advanced than we supposed?
archaeologicalnews:
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In a first for Siberia, a burial mound dating to the ‘New Stone Age’ has been unearthed in Novosibirsk region. In the mound were nine people, including women and...
Plane crashes into Florida trailer park, triggering fireball
Plane crashes into Florida trailer park, triggering fireball http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/plane-crashes-lake-worth-florida-trailer-park-n444181
Candidates Attack Clinton’s Hawkish Foreign Policy in First Debate
Candidates Attack Clinton’s Hawkish Foreign Policy in First...
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newshour:
“ Hillary Clinton was the candidate who spoke the most at tonight’s Democratic debate. Take a look at the all of the candidates’ talk times from tonight’s debate here.
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micdotcom:
“ NASA has released a handful of jaw-dropping 4K images and video of Jupiter taken by the Hubble Telescope. The full shots are just astonishing.
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npr:
“ One of the best-reviewed shows on Broadway right now is a revival of a musical that closed there only six years ago. Spring Awakening is based on a play about German teenagers in the 1890s. Part dark morality play, part rock opera, the musical swept the 2007 Tony awards and made TV stars of its two main leads, Leah Michele (of Glee) and Jonathan Groff (of Looking).
The current revival, by Deaf West, features a mix of hearing and deaf actors. Buteveryone signs, throughout the entire show. The deaf lead actors are shadowed by doubles, hearing actors who voice their roles. But the doubles mostly remain discreetly in the background, to focus attention on the deaf actors. Still, they look at each other, egg each other on, and comfort each other. Somehow, this adds an entirely new dimension to the show — it’s as if you can see each characters’ subconscious.
‘Spring Awakening’ Returns To Broadway — In Sign Language
Photo: Joan Marcus
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The silence over the Thabo Sefolosha trial is deafening ... and mystifying
The silence over the Thabo Sefolosha trial is deafening ... and...
Apple loses patent lawsuit to University of Wisconsin, faces hefty damages
Apple loses patent lawsuit to University of Wisconsin, faces hefty damages http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/13/us-apple-wisconsin-patent-idUSKCN0S72T320151013
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pewresearch:
“ How teen boys and girls differ when it comes to digital romance ”
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huffpostgraphics:
“ LGBT rights in Southeast Asia are limited by draconian laws and intolerant attitudes. Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lgbt-in-southeast-asia_55e406e1e4b0c818f6185151
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mashable:
“ Bratz dolls transformed into empowering role models ”
Decoding the Democratic debate
Decoding the Democratic debate https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/10/13/decode-the-democratic-debate/?tid=sm_tw
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