The Trump administration served notice on Thursday that its next move to deregulate broadband internet service companies would be to jettison the Obama administration’s net neutrality rules, which were intended to safeguard free expression online.
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Friday, March 31, 2017
Net Neutrality Is Trump’s Next Target, Administration Says
Uber Executive Invokes Fifth Amendment, Seeking to Avoid Potential Charges
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Will Using Artificial Intelligence To Make Loans Trade One Kind Of Bias For Another?
The next loan you get may depend less on your credit score and more on what a program thinks of your habits. Digital lenders say the process will be more fair, but others worry about unintended bias.
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A UK entrepreneur takes flight by attaching miniature jet engines to his limbs
A YouTube collection of grainy video clips highlights the progress Gravity founder Richard Browning has made toward his outlandish dream over the past year. Each seems more terrifying than the last, with multiple jet engines attached to his limbs in various configurations, as he hovers a...
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To fix the Apple TV, why not free Siri from the Siri Remote?
Among the many things I find frustrating about the Apple TV experience—and yes, there are more than a few—the Siri Remote is near the top of the list. The small slab of metal, glass, and plastic was billed as one of the marquee features of the new set-top box when it debuted back in fall...
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Five to Try: MLB Tap Sports Baseball 2017 plays ball, and Stance helps you reach U.S. reps
The Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+ dominated the week in Android news, but even if you’re not eyeing a flagship upgrade, you can still get something fresh: new apps and games from the Play Store. We have five more selections this week, starting with MLB Tap Sports Baseball 2017, a streamlined and...
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Number of Women Coaching in College Has Plummeted in Title IX Era
“I want to think sexism is too simple of an answer, but what is it if it’s not that?” said VanDerveer, the only woman beside Pat Summitt to have won 1,000 career games in Division I. “Anytime someone hires a male coach and says, ‘Coaching is coaching,’ well, why aren’t more women in men’s...
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The Roundup—Jazz 112, Kings 82
With a tough closing schedule awaiting, the Utah Jazz traveled to Sacramento and came away with a much-needed 112-82 win over the Kings on Wednesday night.
The Jazz (46-29) currently sit in fourth place in the Western Conference standings, and they’re 1.5 games ahead of the LA Clippers...
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In 'Monsters,' Graphic Novelist Emil Ferris Embraces The Darkness Within : NPR
Ferris takes on real and imagined horrors in My Favorite Thing Is Monsters.
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The Return Of Dave Chappelle And 'CHIPS' : Monkey See : NPR
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STEM news: Words matter when math teachers describe student learning
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Raleigh, N.C. — Think back to math class in elementary school. Do you remember...
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#ThanksForTyping Spotlights Unnamed Women In Literary Acknowledgments : NPR
#ThanksForTyping began a conversation on the uncredited female labor in academia.
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Collaborative Tool Lets Kids Annotate and Analyze Literature, Lyrics and More
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Site of the Week picks are selected from the top edtech tools reviewed by Common Sense Education, which helps educators find the best edtech tools, learn best practices for teaching with tech, and equip...
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New York Today: Welcome Back, Baseball
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Good morning on this waterlogged Friday.
Batter up!
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The educator gets educated
ADA, MICH. – Educating students at the grade school level is nothing like it used to be.
Today’s grade schoolers are members of the “Global Generation,” or “Generation Z.” Widespread usage of the internet and interacting on social media...
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President Trump, Freedom Caucus Members Trade Insults In Week Of Feuding : NPR
President Trump has lashed out at the conservative House Freedom Caucus for its role in bringing down the GOP health care bill, while House Speaker Paul Ryan is urging the party to work together.
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EU offers Brexit trade talks, sets tough transition terms | Reuters
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VALLETTA/BRUSSELS The European Union offered Britain talks this year on a future free trade pact but made clear in negotiating guidelines issued on Friday that London must first agree to EU demands on the...
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Atlanta fire: Section of highway collapses after blaze
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One of the world's best-known oil traders is predicting prices to recover to $70 a barrel
Oil prices are not capped around $55 as is widely assumed but rather are on track to hit $70 per barrel later this year, according to Pierre Andurand, managing partner at Andurand Capital Management.
We’re currently at a crossroads from where oil prices should significantly rebound,...
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Portion of Interstate 85 shut down after fiery collapse
ATLANTA (CNN) – A massive fireball collapsed a portion of Interstate 85 in Atlanta, sending motorists driving through billowing black smoke before the city shut down that section of the highway indefinitely.
The fire started underneath part of the highway on Thursday evening. At about...
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Animal health : Nature : Nature Research
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It might seem that medical researchers have enough to do dealing with the illnesses of people without considering animal diseases too. But our well-being is intertwined with the health of the world’s creatures — especially the dogs, cats and other companion animals...
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Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Congress Moves to Overturn Obama-Era Online Privacy Rules
WASHINGTON — Congress completed its overturning of the nation’s strongest internet privacy protections for individuals on Tuesday in a victory for telecommunications companies, which can track and sell a customer’s online information with greater ease.
In a 215-to-205 vote largely along...
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He Turned His Home Into a Reality Television Show
And yet, I wouldn’t say any of these are really my favorites. Technology occupies a weird space in my life: I love it more than anything for its potential, but I’m always disappointed in its failure to live up to what’s possible. My phone has changed everything about my life, much of it for...
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As Congress Repeals Internet Privacy Rules, Putting Your Options In Perspective
President Trump is expected to sign a bill to overturn new privacy rules for Internet service providers. An expert says there are steps you can take though they won’t deliver absolute privacy.
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Windows has a heart of trash
I did a bad thing. I opened a bad file and it borked my PC. So now, in concordance with the grand tradition of frustrated tech bloggers calling on enormous companies to conform to their wishes, here is my rant on how terrible computers are — Windows ones, this time anyway — and how they...
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Gardening
Spring is here, and it’s time to get out of the house and into the garden. I’ve learned that most adult gardeners started their hobby as children. The good gardening experiences we give our kids today become great gardening memories […]
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Civilization VI review: World domination on your Mac
Civilization VI ($60; online game code available on Amazon; also available on the App Store) brings the best elements of the series’ preceding titles with some helpful new gameplay mechanics that make all the difference.
Like the preceding titles, you develop a civilization from the ground...
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Congress dismantles Internet privacy rules, allowing ISPs to sell your web history
The U.S. House of Representatives has followed the Senate in voting to repeal privacy rules that can prevent broadband providers from selling customers’ internet-browsing histories and other data without their permission.
On Tuesday, the House voted 215-205 to do away with the privacy rules...
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Jerry Jones: Cowboys owner sets Romo resolution
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U.S. Women’s Team Strikes a Deal With U.S.A. Hockey
“It is absolutely an iconic moment in women’s sports,” said Mary Jo Kane, the director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in Sport at the University of Minnesota. “It’s not just because of the women’s team themselves; it’s how people, women in particular, understood what it...
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The Roundup—Jazz 108, Pelicans 100
A day after clinching their first trip to the playoffs since the 2011-12 season, the Utah Jazz got one step closer to securing home-court advantage with a 108-100 win over the New Orleans Pelicans.
With eight games remaining in the regular season, the Jazz (45-29) are sitting 1.5 games ahead...
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White House Denies Any Ties to United States
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WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—In a fiercely defiant statement on Tuesday, the White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, denied that any member of the White House staff has ever worked “in any way, shape, or form” for the...
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Inside DARPA, The Pentagon Agency Whose Technology Has 'Changed the World' : NPR
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Treasury Secretary's Plug For 'Lego Batman' May Be Ethical Violation : The Two-Way : NPR
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Tough Mudder Goes to the Gym
It’s a familiar scene: The first students enter the gym and run to the locker room as fast as they can. Like Superman emerging from the phone booth, they are changed and ready to participate in a flash, racing to their physical education teacher. “What are we doing today?” they ask with...
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School Science Classes Watch Their Brackets : NPR Ed : NPR
It’s a little after 8 a.m. at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Va., and Michelle Harris’ AP Environmental Science class is getting right to it.
“All right, you guys got your brackets out?” Harris asks.
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Awards of Excellence | Tech Learning
3/27/2017 6:00:00 PM
Tech & Learning‘s Awards of Excellence program has been recognizing outstanding ed tech products for over 35 years. With a solid reputation in the...
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New York Today: Much Ado About Tattoos
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Good morning on this brisk-to-brilliant Wednesday.
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Suburban drug overdoses fuel spike in premature death rate
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How A Sweet Rice Dish Connects A Woman To Her History : The Salt : NPR
There are many rituals associated with the Hindu Sindh holiday Cheti Chand, which falls on March 29 this year. One that continues to hold meaning for the author is the consumption of tahri, or sweet rice, during langar, the communal meal at the end of the...
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A scramble at Cisco exposes uncomfortable truths about U.S. cyber defense | Reuters
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SAN FRANCISCO When WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange disclosed earlier this month that his anti-secrecy group had obtained CIA tools for hacking into technology products made by U.S. companies, security engineers at Cisco Systems...
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Bob Dylan finally agrees to accept Nobel Prize for Literature
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Tone in the Brexit process has been dreadful, says UK lawmaker
The tone on both sides of the English Channel has been alarming over the last few months, casting a shadow over the start of the U.K.’s departure from the European Union, an European lawmaker told CNBC.
“The first thing to watch is the tone,” Seb Dance, a member of the...
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Storm chasers killed in crash while tracking tornado
(CNN) – The three storm chasers pursued the raging tornadoes for years. When others fled, they drove closer to the spinning winds.
That’s what they were doing Tuesday, when their two cars rammed into each other 5 miles west of the Texas city of Spur. All three men died, officials...
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Evolution: Oldest algal fossils found : Nature : Nature Research
Fossils of organisms resembling red algae suggest that multicellular life may have emerged on Earth some 400 million years earlier than previously thought.
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Monday, March 27, 2017
Retail Instincts Propel Investor to Venture Capitalism’s Top Tier
The Dollar Shave Club and Jet.com deals have helped vault Ms. Green this year to No. 12 among the top 50 venture capitalists in the world, according to data compiled by CB Insights, a research firm that tracks venture capital. Other venture capitalists on the list also landed their spots...
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After London Attack, U.K. Wants Access to Encrypted WhatsApp Messages
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If Congress Kills FCC Privacy Rules, 'Little' Would Protect Consumers From Providers : NPR
The Senate overturned Obama-era internet privacy rules. Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Jeremy Gillula says the measure would make it easier for companies to share online activity without permission.
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Nomos Glashütte’s Metro Neomatik is modern, slim and sophisticated watch
The smartwatch era has done nothing so much as renew my interest in real watches, which have their own type of special intelligence, albeit laid out in intricate arrays of gears and springs rather than written in silicon. Few watchmakers express this intelligence site so wonderfully as...
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Valentine’s Day Quotes
Whether you are looking for quotes to adorn a Valentine’s Day card, or inspiration to put you in a Valentine’s Day frame of mind, these sites are ready to serve. Happy Valentine’s Day!
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How to use Find My iPhone and Find My Mac, the best part of iCloud
Knock skeuomorphic wood, but I’ve never had a computer or mobile device stolen. (I feel footsteps on my digital grave as I write those words.) But I have forgotten where I’ve left one of my pieces of electronics.
Apple started building its location-based device-finding system years ago...
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HTC U Ultra review: A big beauty that's plagued with problems
I’m not gonna lie, I like big phones. Before I became a full-time Android phone reviewer, I divided my time equally between the Nexus 6P and the iPhone 7 Plus, and I was more than a little bummed that I never got a chance to try out the Galaxy Note7.
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Bears' Hall, Packers' Dorleant arrested in Iowa
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Old Man on the Ducks: Dylan Ennis Takes the Long Way to the Final Four
Ennis is 25 — one of the oldest players in N.C.A.A tournament history — and is a rare sixth-year senior. On Saturday, he and his third-seeded team upset No. 1 Kansas, 74-60, in the Midwest Regional final of the N.C.A.A. men’s basketball tournament. The last time the Ducks advanced this far...
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Emptying the Noggin — Jazz’s collective slump continues in LA loss
SUMMARY: With home court for the playoffs in the balance, the Jazz fell to the Los Angeles Clippers, 108-95. Utah never led, other than 2-0 to start.
The Clippers jumped on the Jazz from the beginning and the Jazz couldn’t get the offense flowing at all early in the game. The Jazz scored...
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Slide Show: New Yorker Cartoons April 3, 2017
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Comic Pete Holmes; Ron Powers Discusses His Sons' Schizophrenia : NPR
Pete Holmes stars as a devout Christian comic with an upbeat disposition in the HBO’s Crashing.
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Jay Chandrasekhar Of 'Super Troopers' On His Memoir 'Mustache Shenanigans' : NPR
Jay Chandrasekhar of Super Troopers fame talks to NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro about his new memoir about how he made it in Hollywood. The book is called Mustache Shenanigans.
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Remember 'Open Schools'? Probably Not, And Here's Why : NPR Ed : NPR
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Future Ready Schools | Tech Learning
Future Ready Schools is a free, bold effort to maximize digital learning opportunities and help school districts move quickly toward preparing students for success in college, a career, and citizenship. The effort provides districts with resources and support to ensure that local technology...
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Republican Party, Russia, Tar Heels: Your Monday Briefing
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Running Wild: A USA TODAY Network investigation
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Trump's Agenda May Be Doomed Unless He Learns That 'Little' Stuff Matters : NPR
President Trump suffered a major defeat when the GOP health care legislation failed to be brought for a vote in the House Friday. What transpired endangers all of Trump’s agenda moving forward.
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Kremlin rejects U.S., EU calls to free detained opposition protesters | Reuters
MOSCOW The Kremlin on Monday rejected calls by the United States and the European Union to release opposition protesters detained during what it said were illegal demonstrations on Sunday and accused organizers of paying teenagers to attend.
Police detained hundreds of...
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London attack: Victim's family tell of 'difficult' time
The family of the US tourist killed in the Westminster terror attack have spoken of their “humbling and difficult experience”.
Kurt Cochran, 54, from Utah, was one of three pedestrians who died after being hit by a car driven by Khalid Masood on Westminster...
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Artificial blood breakthrough could help rare cases
Researchers have created a method that allows them to manufacture red blood cells in a more efficient way.
In a news release on Friday, the University of Bristol said that the team, from the university and NHS Blood and Transplant, had developed a “robust and reproducible...
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NYPD cop quits before he's fired
(CNN) – A New York police officer who fatally shot unarmed teen Ramarley Graham during a 2012 chase, resigned Sunday after an internal disciplinary trial on Friday.
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Materials: Graphene layers give colourful warning : Nature : Nature Research
A material made of overlapping layers of graphene (atom-thick sheets of carbon) changes colour according to the level of stress applied. This could be used in structures to provide early warning of damage.
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Saturday, March 25, 2017
Amid Trump Inquiry, a Primer on Surveillance Practices and Privacy
What is “incidental” collection?
Sometimes American surveillance programs, while targeting foreigners or foreign agents for intelligence purposes, end up intercepting private information about Americans too.
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Amazon Wants to Crush Your Store With Its Technology Might
The company is exploring the idea of creating stores to sell furniture and home appliances, like refrigerators — the kinds of products that shoppers are reluctant to buy over the internet sight unseen, said one of several people with knowledge of the discussions who, in conversations with...
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Can Arianna Huffington Save Uber?
While Uber wades through crisis after crisis, media mogul Arianna Huffington, the sole woman on its board, is emerging as chief of culture change.
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CubeFit TerraMat hides under your standing desk to give your feet a rest
Back before humans invented chairs we humans stood a lot. Now, almost 100 years later, we tend to sit. However, some people still stand. For those people there is the TerraMat.
The TerraMat is like a cat toy for you feet. It features a number of little bumps and ridges designed to let you...
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Presidents’ Day
Although the federal government still calls the holiday celebrated on the third Monday in February Washington’s Birthday, most people (and many states) call it Presidents’ Day. Presidents’ Day began as a holiday honoring George Washington and then both Washington and […]
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It’s all over: Talking big about Alexa
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Inkle's space archaeologist adventure won't tell you if your lost language translations are wrong
“The game isn’t going to tell you if you got that right.” It’s an ominous way to start a game demo, but one I’m not too surprised by after playing 80 Days and Sorcery!
Heaven’s Vault is Inkle’s new game, and I met up with studio co-founders Jon Ingold and Joseph Humfrey recently to get some...
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Clint Dempsey, Christian Pulisic form prolific combo for USMNT
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Chris Chiozza’s Buzzer-Beater Sends Florida Past Wisconsin in Overtime
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A Hail Mary, really — and with Aaron Rodgers, the Green Bay Packers quarterback, sitting no more than 10 feet away. As the ball went through the net, with 2.5 seconds left, Showalter turned toward Rodgers and mimicked Rodgers’s signature championship-belt...
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POLL: Rudy's Best Block So Far?
Rudy Gobert has been terrorizing the NBA all season! He’s the league’s most dominant rim protector and leads the NBA in blocks. It’s hard to rank them because they are all so great – but we’ve narrowed it down to the top six.
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Cartoon Lounge: Spring Has Sprung
Spring has sprung, and the bird is on the wing. But that’s absurd: the wing is on the bird. But, look, I might be wrong about that. I mean, I’m no ornithologist—and, as this episode of the Cartoon Lounge amply demonstrates, I’m no botanist, either.
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The Supreme Court Ruling That Led To 70,000 Forced Sterilizations : NPR
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This is FRESH AIR. I’m David Bianculli, editor of the website TV Worth Watching sitting in for Terry Gross. One of the worst Supreme Court decisions in history, according to our guest journalist Adam Cohen, was the 1927 decision upholding a...
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A Middle-Aged Misanthrope Reconnects With His Long Lost Daughter In 'Wilson' : NPR
Daniel Clowes’ angst-ridden graphic novel is the basis for a new film starring Woody Harrelson and Laura Dern. Critic David Edelstein says Wilson‘s abrasive protagonist is worth getting to know.
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Boston Students Get A Glimpse Of A Whole New World, With Different Maps : The Two-Way : NPR
The Peters — or, Gall-Peters — projection, an attempt to better reflect the position of the equator and the size of the continents. While things get squishy in places, most experts agree that this projection gives a much more accurate depiction of the world than...
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A High School's Lesson For Helping English Language Learners Get To College : NPR Ed : NPR
Sixteen-year-old Na Da Laing struggled in elementary school.
“I was different from other students,” she remembers. “I couldn’t speak English at all.”
Now, eight years later, she’s reading George Orwell’s Animal Farm.
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Active Reading Enabled With Top eReading Platform
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They Adopted Refugee Families for 12 Months. Then Came ‘Month 13.’
Measuring Success
Three weeks later, Peggy Karas stood in the Hajjes’ living room and reached her arms out to Julia, the 9-month-old. It was six days into Month 13. Unlike many other groups, the Hajjes and their sponsors had not marked the moment with speeches or a cake; they did not seem...
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Russian police warn opposition leader’s protest is 'illegal'
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What If You Held An African Summit And No Africans Could Come?
That’s what happened at an African business conference in Los Angeles. Not one of the African invitees could get a visa to come to the U.S. And it’s hard to find out exactly why.
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Iraqi forces pause Mosul push over concern for civilian casualties | Reuters
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MOSUL, Iraq Iraqi government forces paused in their push to recapture western Mosul from Islamic State militants on Saturday because of the high rate of civilian casualties, a security forces spokesman said.
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Trump's ex-national security adviser 'discussed Gulen removal'
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World looks to China for growth but it has its own problems at home
Zhang and Zhou’s comments come amid concerns about increasing protectionist sentiments among some nations after the U.K.’s Brexit vote and the election of U.S. President Donald Trump.
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Federal judge sides with Trump administration in travel ban case
(CNN) – A federal judge in Virginia ruled in favor of the Trump administration Friday, declining to join other federal courts that halted the President’s revised travel ban last week.
Two federal judges — one in Maryland and one in Hawaii — have blocked implementation...
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Nuclear-test films, smoking declines and five new particles : Nature News & Comment
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Thursday, March 23, 2017
TAG Heuer’s Revolution: It’s a Smartwatch. It’s a Mechanical Watch, Too.
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A watch introduced last week has reignited the debate about Switzerland’s role in the future of smartwatches. TAG Heuer’s Connected Modular 45 will allow owners...
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Smartwatches at a Crossroads, and Some Analysts are Optimistic
Over all, smartwatch sales have been disappointing, analysts say, compared with the initial predictions made when the Apple Watch and other models were first hitting stores a few years ago. A central problem, they say, is that the rationale for why consumers who already have smartphones...
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Smartphone App Could Measure Sperm Count : Shots
Scientists have developed a smartphone app to measure sperm count at home.
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Behold the robo-fruit | TechCrunch
Perhaps you’ve been watching the BBC’s Spy in the Wild, in which meticulously recreated robotic animals cohabitate with their fleshy brethren and record all their secret goings and doings. But haven’t you ever wondered what fruit gets up to during the long trip from its homeland to your...
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Bird Feeding
Because the cold winter months are the hardest for wild birds, February and March have been named National Bird Feeding Months by the National Bird Feeding Society. You can help your local bird population by providing supplemental food, water and […]
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Podcast 551: Knocking the Air out of the iPad lineup
Podcast 551: Knocking the Air out of the iPad lineup | Macworld
Apple’s new, cheaper iPad simplifies the lineup and leaves room for an upcoming refresh of the iPad Pro.
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It wasn't the money: Wozniak on robots, design, and Apple's origins
More than 40 years after founding Apple Computer, Steve Wozniak has a lot to say about the early days of the world’s richest company—and about technology, learning, and being a born engineer.
On stage at the IEEE TechIgnite conference in Burlingame, California, on Wednesday, he gave a...
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Russell Westbrook: Thunder guard has first perfect triple-double
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United States Beats Puerto Rico for First World Baseball Classic Title
“We had a goal — to put the U.S.A. on top of the baseball world where it belongs, and we did exactly that,” said first baseman Eric Hosmer, who played on the 2013 team that was eliminated by Puerto Rico. “So we’re proud of the guys. It’s an awesome experience.”
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The Roundup—Jazz 108, Knicks 101
On a night when the franchise honored the 20th anniversary of the 1996-97 Western Conference championship team, the Utah Jazz overcame a double-digit deficit to claim a 108-101 win over the Knicks and pull within one game of clinching their first playoff berth since the 2011-12 season.
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Puritan Yoga - The New Yorker
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Good morrow, yogis! Felicitations on this blessed day upon which our heavenly Father hath chosen to spare our humble bodies from pestilence.
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Inside The Wealthy Family That Has Been Funding Steve Bannon's Plan For Years : NPR
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This is FRESH AIR. I’m Dave Davies in for Terry Gross. According to our guest, Jane Mayer, one of the most influential figures in America today is a man most of us have never heard of. Mayer’s new piece in The New Yorker focuses on Robert...
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IMDb Adopts F-Rating Of Women's Contributions To Movies : The Two-Way : NPR
The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) has adopted the F-rating, a classification system designed to champion women in film.
The new rating was created three years ago by Holly Tarquini, executive director of the Bath Film Festival, to “support women in film and change the stories we see...
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How Former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s iZone Went from ‘Cool’ to Cold
Ten years into his 12-year tenure as mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg and his then education chief, Joel Klein, kicked off a program that they hoped would transform education in the city by making schools “centers of innovation,” Bloomberg told the BBC back in 2011. The ambitions...
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Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Special Education Student : NPR Ed : NPR
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the unanimous opinion in today’s ruling.
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App Offers Real-Time Collaboration for Educators
3/22/2017 5:20:00 AM
App of the Day picks are selected from the top edtech tools reviewed by Common Sense Education, which helps educators find the best ed-tech tools, learn best practices for teaching with tech, and equip students...
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U.K. Police Arrest 8 After Attack Outside Parliament
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Members of Parliament returned to work, and in the chamber, the secretary of state for international trade, Liam Fox, began taking questions on trade issues by stating that it would be “not violence, hatred or division, but decency, goodness and tolerance...
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How to get your kids to brush their teeth
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When School Suspensions Plunge, Is That A Good Thing? : NPR Ed : NPR
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We are in the midst of a quiet revolution in school discipline.
In the past five years, 27 states have revised their laws with the intention of...
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British police arrest seven in probe into attack on parliament | Reuters
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LONDON Police arrested seven people in the investigation into a lone-wolf attacker who killed three people and injured 40 before being shot dead by police near parliament in London, Britain’s most senior...
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New York sword attacker 'targeted black men'
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'We are not afraid, our resolve will not waiver'
The U.K. will not waiver under the threat of terrorism, Prime Minister Theresa May has said in an announcement to the House of Commons Thursday.
Her words came the morning after an attack on the Houses of Parliament which left four people dead and 40 injured.
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Fire destroys church owned by white supremacist
(CNN) – A fire broke out at a church owned by a white supremacist in North Dakota, leaving only the steeple standing and the rest of the property in charred ruins.
White supremacist Craig Cobb is listed on the deed of the Zion Lutheran Church in Nome, North Dakota, CNN affiliate KVRR...
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Birds of play demonstrate the infectious power of emotion : Nature News & Comment
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Before crowds were considered to show wisdom, they were feared to exhibit madness. Naturally, it was a journalist, Charles Mackay, who first seeded popular concern about the frenzied and irrational actions and beliefs of the mob...
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Tuesday, March 21, 2017
YouTube Filtering Draws Ire of Gay and Transgender Creators
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Platform Companies Are Becoming More Powerful — but What Exactly Do They Want?
Predictably, platforms have long been intoxicating to investors. They’ve also been the subject of rapturous popular business writing. In their 2016 book “Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided Platforms,” the economists David S. Evans and Richard Schmalensee cast the subject in...
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Opioid Use Complicates Decisions About Who Should Get Expensive Heart Surgery : Shots
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If you like to linger where it’s shady the Populele wants to linger too
If music be the food of love then get ready to hit the Old Country Buffet. A wild new startup is about to unleash Populele, an electric Ukulele that will teach you how to play old Uke standards like Ukulele Lady, D’yer Maker, and Tiptoe Through The Tulips. The $149 ukulele has surpassed...
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Buzz Aldrin in hologram form, a zero-gravity VR chair, and other SXSW 2017 moments you may have missed
Buzz Aldrin in hologram form, a zero-gravity VR chair, and other SXSW 2017 moments you may have missed | Macworld
Tech’s annual “ideas” show has come to an end. From captivating art installations to impressive headset-less VR, here are some of the best things...
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The best apps for tourists
Smartphones aren’t perfectly convenient in every situation, but there’s one thing they have made cheaper and easier: Travel.
The Google Play store has tons of handy travel tools and apps that will take care of all the logistics for you—everything from finding cheap flights to...
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When NFL Contracts Want a Pound of Flesh
Some observations from the past week, using my experiences to add some perspective…
The Weight of Expectations
I cringed when I saw reports that Eddie Lacy’s deal with the Seahawks includes weight clauses, with maximum earnings of $385,000. I get that he has struggled...
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F.B.I. Is Said to Track Tom Brady’s Missing Super Bowl Jerseys to Journalist in Mexico
The Oakland Raiders will play the Patriots in Mexico City next season, and the Raiders and the Houston Texans played there in November, at Estadio Azteca, in what was the second regular-season N.F.L. game there. Ortega covered that game.
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New Jazz Blue Cushioned Seats for All Fans
Guests at Vivint Smart Home Arena are about to get the best seats in the house.
Utah Jazz fans will experience new fully upholstered, plush back and contour foam seats throughout the building, replacing the green plastic chairs in place since the building opened in 1991, when renovations of...
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This Is Just to Say: A Mad Lib For Dogs
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Remembering Rock N' Roll Pioneer Chuck Berry : NPR
The legendary guitarist, songwriter and singer died Saturday at the age of 90. Rock historian Ed Ward looks back on Berry’s music and career. Originally broadcast in May 2008.
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Trainspotting,' Director Danny Boyle Proves You can Go Home Again : NPR
More than 20 years after the release of the original film about a band of thieving Scottish junkies, Boyle returns to the same characters. Critic David Edelstein calls the new film “tremendous fun.”
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As opioid crisis intensifies, one Md. school system looks at a ‘recovery’ school
Kevin Burnes thinks his school saved his life. He arrived there at 14 years old, just out of rehab, and says it was exactly what he needed: a place where kids with drug and alcohol problems could stay on a path of recovery as they worked toward high school graduation.
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Flat-Earth And Other Fake News Can Be Stopped With Digital Literacy : NPR Ed : NPR
Fake news has been, well, in the news a lot lately. It seems no claim is too absurd to be aired.
For example, NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal has just become the fourth NBA star to make public remarks that he believes the Earth is flat, not round.
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Virtual Base Ten Blocks Great for Early Math Learning
3/20/2017 5:30:00 AM
App of the Day picks are selected from the top edtech tools reviewed by Common Sense Education, which helps educators find the best ed-tech tools, learn best practices for teaching with tech, and equip students...
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New York Today: Is My Broker Legit?
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As spring warms up, so does the rental market, which means the time for deals...
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Trump regales Louisville crowd with familiar pledges, ignores FBI probe
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U.S. Limits Electronic Devices On Flights From 8 Muslim Countries : The Two-Way : NPR
U.S. officials say that laptops and other larger electronic devices will be banned from cabins of foreign airlines’ flights originating in eight countries.
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South Korea's Park apologizes, promises cooperation in graft probe | Reuters
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SEOUL Ousted South Korean president Park Geun-hye apologized to the country on Tuesday as she arrived at prosecutors’ offices for questioning as a criminal suspect in a corruption scandal that has gripped the country...
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Electronics banned on some US flights from Middle East
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Trump administration weighing broad sanctions on North Korea: US official
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U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (C) at the border village of Panmunjom, South Korea, on March 17, 2017.
For now, U.S. officials consider pre-emptive strikes too risky, given the danger of igniting a regional war and causing massive casualties in Japan...
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Ruling on Polanski case within 90 days
(CNN) – Almost 40 years after Roman Polanski fled the US after pleading guilty to having sex with a minor, the filmmaker’s legal saga may get a decision soon.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Scott Gordon is expected to rule on Polanski’s case within 90...
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Sunday, March 19, 2017
Farhad’s and Mike’s Week in Tech: Intel’s Big Bet on Self-Driving Cars
Perhaps that’s my inner English nerd coming out. Have you ever read a modern Norton edition of “Moby Dick”? The footnotes are beautiful!
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As Uber Woos More Drivers, Taxis Hit Back
The upending of the traditional taxi business across the United States and around the world by Uber, Lyft and other ride-hailing services has given consumers new and sometimes cheaper options and forced cities to re-examine their transportation policies. Uber, in some places, has employed...
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Tech Companies Have Mixed Feelings Toward Trump Administration : NPR
The South by Southwest Interactive Festival, one of the first big tech conferences since the election, added a special track this year about tech under the Trump administration.
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The Atomo Modular Electronics System is like LEGO for electronics
One of the hardest things about Raspberry Pi and Arduino is figuring out where to stick all the pieces. While both of these systems work well alone – you can have a lot of fun with just a board and an Internet connection – it’s also fun to add little things like printers and screens to...
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Inside the Infinity Room, SXSW's trippy art installation
Inside the Infinity Room, SXSW’s trippy art installation | Macworld
South by Southwest is all about merging tech with art, and Refik Anadol’s Infinity Room is a dazzling example.
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Every custom GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics card revealed so far
Asus was one of the first Nvidia partners to show its custom cards—the Asus Strix GTX 1080 Ti and Asus Turbo GTX 1080 Ti—in their full glory, and it’s the first to reveal finalized specifications, too.
The Turbo version sticks to a basic, borderline reference-like single fan design,...
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Shaq believes Earth is flat, like Kyrie Irving
Shaq believes Earth is flat, like Kyrie Irving | SI.com
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Wisconsin, the Giant Killer, Takes Down Another by Beating Villanova
Wisconsin (27-9) will play in the round of 16 on Friday at Madison Square Garden against fourth-seeded Florida, which crushed fifth-seeded Virginia, 65-39, on Saturday night.
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The Most Exciting Win Against Cleveland?
Over the last ten years, the Jazz and Cavaliers have had some exciting games.
In 2007, LeBron James tied the game with a deep three-pointer and Deron Williams immediately pushed the ball up the floor and got the layup to drop with 1 second left on the clock to seal a Jazz win!
In 2010, the...
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Development Hell - The New Yorker
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A waiting room in the Underworld.
MINION: Sorry to keep you in limbo so long. Satan was putting out some fires on the set of “Transformers: Entourage: Turtle’s Revenge.” Bottle of sparkling boiling water?
WRITER: No, thank you.
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Jordan Peele; 'Monk Dreams'; Novelist Sebastian Barry : NPR
Writer-director Jordan Peele says that making Get Out represents his “truest passion.”
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Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks,...
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Danny Boyle And Ewan McGregor On 'T2 Trainspotting' : NPR
Getting the band back together: Ewen Bremner, Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller and Robert Carlyle return for T2 Trainspotting.
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Four steps to improve US schools that (almost) everyone supports
March 16, 2017
—The early days of the Trump administration have made clear that strong disagreements over school choice probably won’t be resolved anytime soon. But when it comes to setting an agenda for what public education should do to prepare the rising generation for the future, there...
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FAFSA, Pell Grants And Charters, Oh My! : NPR Ed : NPR
National K-12 and higher ed news came fast and furious this week. Here are our highlights to help you keep on top.
The president’s “skinny budget” has cuts for education
The biggest story of our week happened early Thursday morning when President Trump released his...
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American History Through the Presidential Lens
3/17/2017 5:50:00 AM
App of the Day picks are selected from the top edtech tools reviewed by Common Sense Education, which helps educators find the best ed-tech tools, learn best practices for teaching with tech, and equip students...
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Chuck Berry, Donald Trump, Interest Rates: Your Weekend Briefing
In another setback for the president, two federal judges blocked Mr. Trump’s latest travel ban. “This ruling makes us look weak,” Mr. Trump told a supportive crowd at a campaign-style rally.
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Glen Campbell's wife to other Alzheimer's caregivers: You are not alone
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Trump Election Drives More Democrat Women To Get Into Politics : NPR
The 2016 presidential election was a huge catalyst for these women to enter (or re-enter) politics. They’re now in a Maryland program that coaches Democratic women to run for local office: (From left to right) Lenora Dawson, 51; Christiana Rigby, 32, and her...
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Germany rejects Trump's claim it owes NATO and U.S. 'vast sums' for defense | Reuters
BERLIN German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen on Sunday rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s claim that Germany owes NATO and the United States “vast sums” of money for defense.
“There is no debt account at NATO,” von der Leyen said in a statement,...
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Rock and roll legend Chuck Berry dies aged 90
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Chuck Berry, the guitarist and songwriter recognised as one of the fathers of rock ‘n’ roll, has died aged 90.
Berry’s seven-decade career boasted a string of hits, including classics Roll Over Beethoven and...
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Tillerson ends China trip with warm words from President Xi
With warm words from Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson ended his first trip to Asia since taking office with an agreement to work together with China on North Korea and putting aside trickier issues.
China has been irritated at being repeatedly...
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What's Neil Gorsuch's religion? It's complicated
WASHINGTON (CNN) – Earlier this month, the Trump administration summoned two dozen religious leaders to a private meeting. The mission: to rally support for Neil Gorsuch, Trump’s Supreme Court nominee.
According to several participants, White House staffers emphasized...
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Not just dwingey chimbles: dialects are alive and kicking : Nature News & Comment
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Dialect shows how English is a living language.
If you’re shilpit, you’ll be able to shuck on your dead ronking kecks as far as your oxters. It could be war nor worse to be idle as Ludlum’s dog, but playing acky 1-2-3 would have you jiffling in your...
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Friday, March 17, 2017
Cautious Optimism in Brazil as Appetite Returns for I.P.O.s
Two other companies have already debuted: the car rental company Movida and the health care company Instituto Hermes Pardini, raising a combined $425 million for the year through Tuesday. Though Movida had to slightly lower its price, and another company, Unidas, which is in the same...
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Mark Nathan on Bringing Your Teflon to Get Honest Feedback
I then created a company when I was 16, selling high-end stereos directly to people. I’d deliver them, set them up, and people would still pay 30 percent less than they would in a store.
My core values come from my mother and father. My father was a brilliant man, and could have been a...
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Cold War-Era Nuclear Test Films Reveal New Data When Digitized : The Two-Way : NPR
The film is silent, but it starts with a bang. The screen blows out white, then a tropical beach comes into view, before an explosion tears across the horizon. A two-tiered mushroom cloud flows skyward, revealing a dark, intense plume of smoke that smolders in the distance.
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Reduced Energy Microsystems pits startup chip chops against industry giants
Whether or not you like the so-called Internet of Things, the fact is that we do live in an internet of things, and every one of those things has a chip inside it. These chips are very advanced, of course, but also in many ways very traditional. Reduced Energy Microsystems wants...
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Apple’s desktop Mac lineup: A showcase of old technology
There are lots of things that Apple needs to fix, but one of the most glaring right now is the product line. Sure, we’re on the usual annual cycle of iPhone upgrades. We’ve seen new iPads in recent memory. But what about the Mac? The venerable computer that used to be Apple’s core product...
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Five to Try: Supersonic Fun Voice Messenger takes flight, and Giphy Stickers gets lit
If you’re on the prowl for fun new apps for your phone, look no further: our Five to Try column highlights the Play Store’s most exciting releases for apps and games alike. Google’s new Area 120 division leads this week’s offering with Supersonic Fun Voice Messenger, which has “fun” in the...
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Steve Alford: UCLA coach not focused on Indiana job
Steve Alford: UCLA coach not focused on Indiana job | SI.com
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Northwestern Makes Its N.C.A.A. Debut a Winning One
When the ball caromed out of bounds off a Vanderbilt player, the celebration raged not only in the stands — the actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus, cheering on her son, Charlie Hall, a Wildcats sophomore forward, and the former N.B.A. coach Doug Collins, father of Chris, were among those present —...
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Emptying the Noggin — Jazz get MVP LeBron
Summary: The Jazz got LeBron-ed in Cleveland, again. With the game tied going into the fourth quarter, LeBron took over and scored or assisted on all but four points in the quarter to completely overwhelm the Jazz, 91-83.
• The Jazz never seemed in synch in the first half. In fact, Mike...
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Sorry for the Delayed Response
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Sorry for the delayed response. I opened your e-mail on my phone while my date was in the bathroom, but then I saw that it required more than a “yes” or “no” reply, decided that was too much work, marked it as unread, and then forgot about it entirely...
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Sxip Shirey's 'Bottle of Whiskey' Is A 21st-Century Music Creation : NPR
Shirey mixes dry vocals with multi-instrumentalist stylings on his new album. Critic Milo Miles says A Bottle of Whiskey and a Handful of Bees is an original and engaging work.
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A Unlikely Romance Blossoms, Rooted In A Secret: 'Frantz' : NPR
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Cleveland, Mississippi, School District Will Desegregate
School segregation did not end in 1954 with the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision. For the past 52 years, the Cleveland, Mississippi, school district has faced ongoing litigation in response to its racially divided high schools and middle schools. After decades of legal battles...
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Billions In Cuts for Community Schools And More For Choice : NPR Ed : NPR
This morning President Trump released a proposed 2018 budget that calls for a $9 billion, or 13.5 percent, cut for the U.S. Department of Education.
The document released today is only an initial sketch — a proposal, really — one that must compete with Congress’s...
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Free Video Editor Boosts Kids' Media Literacy
3/16/2017 5:50:00 AM
Site of the Week picks are selected from the top edtech tools reviewed by Common Sense Education, which helps educators find the best edtech tools, learn best practices for teaching with tech, and equip...
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New York Today: Defining St. Patrick’s Day
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'Stopping gun violence takes courage'
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Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords prepares to announce the Arizona Coalition for Common Sense at the Heard Museum in Phoenix on March 16, 2017. (Photo: Nick Oza/The Republic)
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In A Jiffy : NPR
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Japan not considering support for Toshiba, sharing information with U.S. | Reuters
TOKYO The Japanese government said it was not considering steps to support embattled Toshiba Corp (6502.T) and will share information with Washington on developments involving the firm and its U.S. nuclear unit Westinghouse.
But Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga added the government...
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Tillerson: Military action against North Korea 'an option'
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US policy of 'strategic patience' with North Korea over: Tillerson
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Former Exxon Mobile Executive Rex Tillerson appears before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations for his confirmation hearing for the post of Secretary of State on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC Wednesday January 11, 2017.
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NY man steals ambulance, runs over EMT
(CNN) – The bystander’s video starts with a chaotic scene: An ambulance runs through an intersection in New York, one of its doors open, lights flashing. It drags what appears to be a person trapped under the vehicle.
Authorities say the person stuck under it was Yadira Arroyo,...
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Announcement: Transparency upgrade for Nature journals : Nature News & Comment
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Laser physics is being targeted for better reporting of experiments.
In 2013, this journal and many of the Nature research journals announced initiatives aimed at “reducing our irreproducibility” (Nature 496, 398; 2013). These included a life-sciences checklist for authors and...
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Wednesday, March 15, 2017
Gaymoji: A New Language for That Search
That is, toward a visual language of rainbow unicorns, bears, otters and handcuffs — to cite some of the images available in the first set of 100 free Gaymoji symbols. An additional 400 are there for the unlocking by those willing to pay $3.99 to own digital icons arranged in categories like...
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How the Internet Is Saving Culture, Not Killing It
Yet for much of that time, the business side of culture looked under assault. The internet taught a whole generation that content was not something you really had to pay for. So for years, digital content companies — especially those in the online news business — looked doomed to pursue a...
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Vibrator Maker To Pay Millions Over Claims It Secretly Tracked Use : The Two-Way : NPR
The We-Vibe classic is one of several Bluetooth-enabled We-Vibe products that can be paired with an app and controlled remotely. Customers alleged that the company that makes the vibrators was secretly tracking their use.
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