The Storm That Will Unfreeze The North Pole

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The Storm That Will Unfreeze The North Pole
Later this week, something extraordinary will happen: Air temperatures at the Earth’s most northernly region, in the middle of winter, will rise above freezing for only the second time on record.

December 30, 2015 at 10:28PM
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Why the 2010s Are Reminiscent of the 1920s

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Why the 2010s Are Reminiscent of the 1920s
America is again caught between nationalists longing for the glories of an imagined past, and activists invoking ideals the nation has never yet attained.

December 30, 2015 at 02:45PM
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Complaint factory: Angry Internet subscribers tee off against Comcast, Verizon, TWC

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Complaint factory: Angry Internet subscribers tee off against Comcast, Verizon, TWC
The FCC gets more Internet service complaints about Comcast than it does for AT&T, Verizon, and Time Warner Cable (TWC) combined.

December 29, 2015 at 01:36PM
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At Theranos, Many Strategies and Snags

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At Theranos, Many Strategies and Snags
Elizabeth Holmes’s blood-testing ambition has long collided with technological problems.

December 27, 2015 at 11:56PM
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The case for quitting your job-without a backup plan

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The case for quitting your job-without a backup plan
"I want to urge everyone who’s ever dreamed of setting fire to expense reports or tossing a uniform in the dumpster to take a flying leap in the year ahead. Now let’s review what you need to do before you pull the ripcord and trust that you’ll land in the right place."

December 27, 2015 at 02:02PM
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How To Get Free HD TV (Yes It’s Legal)

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How To Get Free HD TV (Yes It’s Legal)
No cables, no satellites, just one paper-thin indoor antenna.

December 26, 2015 at 09:32AM
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Jeb Abandons Jeb!

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Jeb Abandons Jeb!
Even the former Florida governor has given up on his brand.

December 25, 2015 at 06:15PM
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Ten Odd and Mysterious Historical Finds of 2015

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Ten Odd and Mysterious Historical Finds of 2015
It's a toss up between finding a bunch of sexually-deviant nuns and "rare Atlantean metal."

December 24, 2015 at 11:02AM
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2015: The Year In Digg

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2015: The Year In Digg
We at Digg take great pride in finding the Internet’s tastiest content. Every day, we lap it all up — news stories, longform, videos, Vines and so on — then spit back only the good stuff. So here’s a summary of what got the tongues wagging this year.

December 23, 2015 at 08:19AM
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Will the Republican Party Survive the 2016 Election?

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Will the Republican Party Survive the 2016 Election?
The GOP planned a dynastic restoration in 2016. Instead, it triggered an internal class war. Can the party reconcile the demands of its donors with the interests of its rank and file?

December 22, 2015 at 12:02AM
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The cold fusion horizon

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The cold fusion horizon
Is cold fusion truly impossible, or is it just that no respectable scientist can risk their reputation working on it?

December 21, 2015 at 10:31AM
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The rise, fall, and return of Star Wars Galaxies

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The rise, fall, and return of Star Wars Galaxies
How the paragon of sandbox games was killed by the gaming industry and is now being brought back to life.

December 20, 2015 at 01:03PM
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If Your Phone Is Your Lifeline You Should Probably Insure It

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If Your Phone Is Your Lifeline You Should Probably Insure It
Unlimited and encrypted mobile backup, because God forbid anything should happen to your pictures from this year’s company holiday party.

December 19, 2015 at 10:05AM
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How Online Vigilantes Take Down Cheating Runners

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How Online Vigilantes Take Down Cheating Runners
LetsRun.com's web vigilantes are some of the Internet's most tenacious sleuths. Cheat at your own peril.

December 18, 2015 at 09:28AM
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How Rogue Techies Armed the Predator, Almost Stopped 9/11, and Accidentally Invented Remote War

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How Rogue Techies Armed the Predator, Almost Stopped 9/11, and Accidentally Invented Remote War
On the afternoon of October 7, 2001, the first day of the war in Afghanistan, an Air Force pilot named Scott Swanson made history while sitting in a captain’s chair designed for an RV. His contribution to posterity was to kill someone in a completely novel way.

December 17, 2015 at 09:34AM
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An Unbelievable Story of Rape

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An Unbelievable Story of Rape
An 18-year-old said she was attacked at knifepoint. Then she said she made it up. That’s where our story begins.

December 16, 2015 at 11:02AM
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5 Reasons 'Star Wars' Spaceships Make Absolutely No Sense

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5 Reasons 'Star Wars' Spaceships Make Absolutely No Sense
The "Star Wars" films are great escapist fantasies, and like all escapist fiction, it's best not to think about it too much. The films take place, as the saying goes, "a long, long time ago, in a galaxy far away," where apparently almost everything is possible.

December 15, 2015 at 10:36AM
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Dispossessed in the Land of Dreams

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Dispossessed in the Land of Dreams
Those left behind by Silicon Valley’s technology boom struggle to stay in the place they call home.

December 14, 2015 at 08:38AM
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The Freedom Caucus and the War in the Republican Party

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The Freedom Caucus and the War in the Republican Party
How a radical group of Republicans pushed Congress to the right.

December 13, 2015 at 12:47PM
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Super Mario Bros in HTML5

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Super Mario Bros in HTML5
On this day, we are all PC gamers. (From some quick tests, this game seems to work best in Google Chrome)

December 12, 2015 at 01:11PM
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The Force Accounted

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The Force Accounted
Bloomberg watched every minute of every Star Wars film and then cataloged every time the Force was used or mentioned.

December 11, 2015 at 11:36AM
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America's iconic war machine

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America's iconic war machine
The most feared bomber plane of the 20th Century is still going strong after 60 years in service in the US military — from Vietnam to Afghanistan. And she will keep on flying until 2044. How does this 1950s behemoth survive in the era of drones and stealth aircraft?

December 10, 2015 at 11:26AM
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How ‘South Park’ Perfectly Captures Our Era Of Outrage

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How ‘South Park’ Perfectly Captures Our Era Of Outrage
“South Park” has gone and revitalized itself, by telling a more ambitious, serialized story and by asserting that it takes an outrageous comedy to capture an era of outrage.

December 9, 2015 at 11:29AM
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What Really Happens When You Get Shot

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What Really Happens When You Get Shot
Depictions of gun violence in fictional shows and movies are routine, and often wildly imaginative. Those depictions are distorting understanding of what bullets can — or can’t — do to bodies.

December 8, 2015 at 01:30PM
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The Americans Who Stopped the Paris Train Attack

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The Americans Who Stopped the Paris Train Attack
You remember their story from this summer — but here, in the words of Spencer Stone, is what really happened when he and two American friends decided to put their lives on the line to prevent an armed assailant from shooting up their train.

December 7, 2015 at 12:48PM
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Carter: Cancer is gone

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Carter: Cancer is gone
Carter, 91, made the announcement near the beginning of the Sunday School class he was teaching at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, a close friend and fellow church member said.

December 6, 2015 at 01:35PM
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Our Clearest Look Yet At Pluto's Surface

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Our Clearest Look Yet At Pluto's Surface
According to NASA, the new images sent back by New Horizons are "the best close-ups of Pluto that humans may see for decades."

December 5, 2015 at 11:29AM
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Packers Beat Lions On Crazy Last-Second Hail Mary

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Packers Beat Lions On Crazy Last-Second Hail Mary
Trailing 23-21 as time was expiring, the Green Bay Packers got one last chance against the Detroit Lions, and quarterback Aaron Rodgers made no mistake.

December 4, 2015 at 09:38AM
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Stephen Curry Is The Revolution

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Stephen Curry Is The Revolution
Curry isn’t a product of the NBA's new, 3-point friendly offensive math; he’s so good that he has his own math. Indeed, the math is so far in Curry’s favor that the Warriors — and even basketball in general — may not fully understand what they have yet.

December 3, 2015 at 12:48PM
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Leaked Documents Reveal Dothan Police Department Planted Drugs on Young Black Men For Years, District Attorney Doug Valeska Complicit

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Leaked Documents Reveal Dothan Police Department Planted Drugs on Young Black Men For Years, District Attorney Doug Valeska Complicit
All of the officers reportedly were members of a Neoconfederate organization that the Southern Poverty Law Center labels “racial extremists.”

December 2, 2015 at 01:36PM
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The Necessity of Football

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The Necessity of Football
America’s game is a fun-house mirror for our national character.

November 30, 2015 at 11:58PM
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Kobe Bryant Announces His Retirement — With A Poem

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Kobe Bryant Announces His Retirement — With A Poem
"My heart can take the pounding. My mind can handle the grind. But my body knows it’s time to say goodbye."

November 30, 2015 at 01:46PM
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The Lost History Of A Deadly Boxing Match On The USS Yankee

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The Lost History Of A Deadly Boxing Match On The USS Yankee
In 1905, at the dawn of America’s empire under Teddy Roosevelt, a black sailor and a Jewish sailor boxed in a makeshift ring on the deck of a U.S. Navy ship. What was intended to be entertainment for hundreds of idle soldiers instead turned into a tragedy, marking a pivotal, if overlooked, moment in the history of race in the American military.

November 29, 2015 at 02:03PM
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My son, the mass murderer: ‘What did I miss?’

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My son, the mass murderer: ‘What did I miss?’
In 2006, Charlie Roberts walked into an Amish school in Pennsylvania and killed five young girls. His mother talks about trying to comprehend his actions.

November 28, 2015 at 03:57PM
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Smoking high-strength cannabis may damage nerve fibres in brain

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Smoking high-strength cannabis may damage nerve fibres in brain
Study suggests high levels of skunk use may affect the brain’s white matter, making communication between the right and left hemispheres less efficient.

November 27, 2015 at 12:39PM
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My life after 44 years in prison

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My life after 44 years in prison
Stepping out into Times Square in New York City, Otis Johnson is struck by the overwhelming number of people. Everyone seems to be walking quickly with blank faces and wires in their ears.

November 26, 2015 at 09:35AM
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xkcd: Hoverboard

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xkcd: Hoverboard
To celebrate the release of his new book "Thing Explainer," XKCD creator Randall Munroe created a huge world for you to explore on your hoverboard. Good luck finding all the coins (and nerd references!)

November 24, 2015 at 11:54PM
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The Edges Of This Book Have A Beautiful Secret

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The Edges Of This Book Have A Beautiful Secret
In Cornell's rare books library there are a few examples of the fore-edge painting technique, which is as stunning as it is unexpected.

November 24, 2015 at 02:02PM
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Private Medical Records of Chris Kyle's Killer Reveal the True Story Behind the "American Sniper" Murder

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Private Medical Records of Chris Kyle's Killer Reveal the True Story Behind the "American Sniper" Murder
Private medical records of Chris Kyle's killer reveal what really happened.

November 23, 2015 at 10:42AM
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How Nostalgia Is Hurting the Future of Video Games

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How Nostalgia Is Hurting the Future of Video Games
The gaming industry can't seem to move beyond its lucrative, long-beloved franchises. Here's why that's a problem.

November 22, 2015 at 10:20AM
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The Old And New Star Wars Droids Meet For The First Time — In A Cell Phone Ad?

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The Old And New Star Wars Droids Meet For The First Time — In A Cell Phone Ad?
C-3PO and R2-D2 are iconic members of the Star​ Wars universe, while the cute, spherical BB-8 will be introduced in the new movie. For some reason, this ad from UK mobile company O2 features all three droids crossing paths for the first time.

November 21, 2015 at 01:30PM
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Racist Xenophobes Are America's Greatest Threat

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Racist Xenophobes Are America's Greatest Threat
Some will say it is rude to point out that many of our leaders are, in fact, stupid hicks. I say it is ruder to block a war refugee from coming to your unattractive state due to the fact that you, personally, are dumb. Some may disagree.

November 20, 2015 at 02:56PM
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Princesses, Slaves, and Explosives: The Scandalous Origin of Vaccines

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Princesses, Slaves, and Explosives: The Scandalous Origin of Vaccines
The history of inoculation may sound a little dry, but it’s really an epic tale of human trafficking, semi-illicit experimentation, and high explosives.

November 19, 2015 at 12:00AM
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Inside ISIS’ Torture Brigades

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Inside ISIS’ Torture Brigades
Talking to girls. Fibbing in court. Drinking a beer. A thousand things will get you tortured in the Islamic State. Unless you’re a suspected CIA spy. Then you lose your head.

November 18, 2015 at 12:00AM
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The Craft Beer Bubble

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The Craft Beer Bubble
Currently, 1.9 craft breweries are opening a day in the US. It’s a boom similar to the tech bubble. So are we inside a craft beer bubble or does the industry simply need to readjust?

November 17, 2015 at 02:09PM
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Unfollow

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Unfollow
How a prized daughter of the Westboro Baptist Church came to question its beliefs.

November 16, 2015 at 10:30AM
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Meet The Artist Behind The 'Peace for Paris' Symbol

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Meet The Artist Behind The 'Peace for Paris' Symbol
A peace symbol with the Eiffel tower, rendered in bold, black strokes against a white background. Though many attributed the emblem to the artist Banksy, French graphic designer Jean Jullien created the image, “Peace for Paris,” and posted it on Twitter and Instagram at around midnight Paris time.

November 15, 2015 at 11:55AM
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Magnitude-7 earthquake strikes off southwest Japan

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Magnitude-7 earthquake strikes off southwest Japan
The Meteorological Agency said tsunami of up to 1 meter could hit the coast of Kagoshima Prefecture in Kyushu and small islands to the south.

November 13, 2015 at 08:34PM
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A Drone That Anyone Can Afford

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A Drone That Anyone Can Afford
Why settle for one propeller when you could have four? The Snowflake Stealth quadcopter soars, hovers, flips and tilts at high speeds with ease and safety. And, at $35 your new toy won’t make you break the bank.

November 13, 2015 at 10:31AM
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How Burgers and Fries Are Killing Your Microbial Balance

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How Burgers and Fries Are Killing Your Microbial Balance
Burgers and fries have nearly killed our ancestral microbiome.

November 12, 2015 at 05:20PM
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