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8 years ago+16 16 0Hear A New Bob Weir Song, 'Lay My Lily Down'
The Grateful Dead guitarist co-wrote the new song with Josh Ritter. It's a haunting tune, sung in the voice of a father as he buries his daughter.
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8 years ago+5 5 0 x 1McMansions 101: What Makes a McMansion Bad Architecture?
Sometimes people ask, why is xyz house bad? Asking this question does not imply that the asker has bad taste or no taste whatsoever - it means that they are simply not educated in basic architectural concepts. In this post, I will introduce basic arc ...
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8 years ago+23 23 0What life is really like in ‘America’s worst place to live’
One of the big dangers of our glorious, new quantified world is the emergence of a type of numeric stereotyping — of insights hardened into dogma by the weight of a thousand data sets.
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8 years ago+10 10 0Official Android 7.0 "Nougat" release page
With more ways to make Android your own, Android Nougat is our sweetest release yet.
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8 years ago+27 27 0Smartphone batteries with twice the life may arrive in 2017
SolidEnergy is preparing to commercialize its "lithium metal" tech. The company now has its own facility and is building towards a November 2016 launch with drone batteries. Following that, it plans to commercialize cells for smartphones an ...
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8 years ago+23 23 0Bob Weir Releases 'Only A River' The First Single From His New Album
Listen to "Only A River," the first single off Bob Weir's new cowboy album 'Blue Mountain,' which was written with Josh Ritter and produced by Josh Kaufman. The National’s Bryce Dessner, Aaron Dessner and Scott Devendorf are ...
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8 years ago+11 11 0Kenny Baker, 'Star Wars' Actor Behind R2-D2, Dead at 81
Kenny Baker, the actor who portrayed the robot R2-D2 in six 'Star Wars' films, died Saturday after a long illness. He was 81.
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8 years ago+23 23 0Google Maps did not ‘delete’ Palestine — but it does impact how you see it
Protesters think Google wiped Palestine from its maps. The truth is far more complicated. In their attempts to dispassionately document the physical world online, tech companies often end up shaping our understanding of it, too.
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8 years ago+23 23 0How Big Coal summoned Wall Street and faced a whirlwind
Over four decades, the Hobet coal mine transformed from a small operation to a magnet for corporate buyouts. Its shift tells a larger story of coal in decline.
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8 years ago+25 25 0QUIZ: What Were Restaurants Like 100 Years Ago?
Restaurants are such staples of culinary culture that we tend to take their modern-day traits for granted. But they went through a lot of changes to become the delicious destinations we know today.
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8 years ago+5 5 0Blue Feed, Red Feed
See Liberal Facebook and Conservative Facebook, Side by Side
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8 years ago+13 13 0How Artists Change the World
Frederick Douglass made himself the most photographed American of the 19th century, which is kind of amazing. He sat for 160 separate photographs (George Custer sat for 155 and Abraham Lincoln for 126). He also wrote four lectures on photography. Dou ...
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8 years ago+2 2 0Hall of Fame Caps That Could Have Been
Which baseball team’s cap does a Hall of Famer sport in his commemorative plaque? It depends.
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8 years ago+2 2 0Cassidy's Tale
"Cassidy" is one of the Grateful Dead's most beautiful songs. Lyricist John Perry Barlow tells of the two people, a Beat Generation drifter and a newborn child, who inspired it.
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8 years ago+12 12 0The Weird and Wonderful World of Renzo Picasso
A little-known Italian architect wanted to build seven-layer "superstreets" through American cities.
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8 years ago+18 18 0What If Russia Invaded the Baltics—and Donald Trump Was President?
A former NATO general imagines a frightening scenario.
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8 years ago+9 9 0Donald Trump’s Appeal to Russia Shocks Foreign Policy Experts
“Being shocked into speechlessness is not the sort of thing you’re really used to in the business of foreign policy analysis,” said one expert after Donald J. Trump called on Russia to hack Mrs. Clinton’s email server.
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8 years ago+8 8 0DNC chairwoman will not speak, preside over convention: report
Rep. Marcia Fudge will serve as permanent chair of the convention, CNN reported. The news comes after a trove of emails was released by WikiLeaks last week that appeared to show top officials at the DNC planning how to undermine Bernie Sanders's ...
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8 years ago+21 21 0The Reason Your Feed Became An Echo Chamber — And What To Do About It
It often feels as if social media serves less as a bridge than an echo chamber, with algorithms that feed us information we already know and like. So, how do you break that loop? We ask some experts.
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8 years ago+3 3 0Stream: Thank You Scientist’s wild ride of an prog rock album, Stranger Heads Prevail
For fans of comprehensive mind f**ks.