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Today in History for December 5th

John Oliver: “That man Ted Cruz can suck my balls” – John Oliver’s Dr Seuss’ Poem about Ted Cruz

Gillibrand Touts Her Responsibility to Discuss White Privilege

How augmented reality is changing activism | Glenn Cantave

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RSA ANIMATE: The Power of Outrospection

Part 2: Robert Reich: Like a Tyrant, Trump Is Deploying Seven Techniques to Control the Media

Part 1: Robert Reich: Like a Tyrant, Trump Is Deploying Seven Techniques to Control the Media

Edward Snowden: Here’s how we take back the Internet

Changing Education Paradigms-RSAnimate – Sir Ken Robinson

RSA Animate — The Secret Powers of Time

Check out the big brain on Brad….er…Albert!

Albert Einstein is widely regarded as a genius, but how did he get that way? Many researchers have assumed that it took a very special brain to come up with the theory of relativity and other insights that form the foundation of modern physics. A study of 14 newly discovered photographs of Einstein’s brain, which was preserved for study after his death, concludes that the brain was indeed highly unusual in many ways. But researchers still don’t know exactly how the brain’s extra folds and convolutions translated into Einstein’s amazing abilities. Loading... Comments Weigh InCorrections? Personal Post Gallery Notable deaths of 2012: Images of well-known people who have died this year. More science news Why most humans are not vegetarians Christopher Wanjek | Live Science NOV 26 Eating meat and cooking food enabled the brains of prehumans to grow dramatically over time. Sea snails weaken in Antarctic waters Reuters NOV 26 Carbon dioxide makes the waters of the Southern Ocean increasingly acidic. Sensors alert fish as threats approach Brian Palmer NOV 26 Neuromasts help them sense when a predator is near, even if the water is muddy or the fish can’t see. The story of Einstein’s brain is a saga that began in 1955 when the Nobel Prize-winning physicist died in Princeton, N.J., at age 76. His son Hans Albert and his executor, Otto Nathan, gave the examining pathologist, Thomas Harvey, permission to preserve the brain for scientific study. Harvey photographed the brain and then cut it into 240 blocks, which were embedded in a resinlike substance. He cut the blocks into as many as 2,000 thin sections for microscopic study, and in subsequent years distributed slides and photographs of the brain to at least 18 researchers around the world. With the exception of the slides that Harvey kept for himself, no one is sure where the specimens are now, and many of them have probably been lost as researchers retired or died. Over the decades, only six peer-reviewed publications resulted from these widely scattered materials. Some of these studies did find interesting features in Einstein’s brain, including a greater density of neurons in some parts of the brain and a higher than usual ratio of glia (cells that help neurons transmit nerve impulses) to neurons. Two studies of the brain’s gross anatomy, including one published in 2009 by anthropologist Dean Falk of Florida State University at Tallahassee, found that Einstein’s parietal lobes — which might be linked to his remarkable ability to conceptualize physics problems — had a very unusual pattern of grooves and ridges. But the Falk study was based on only a handful of photographs that had been made available by Harvey, who died in 2007. In 2010, Harvey’s heirs agreed to transfer all of his materials to the U.S. Army’s National Museum of Health and Medicine in Silver Spring. For the new study, published Nov. 16 in the journal Brain, Falk teamed up with neurologist Frederick Lepore of the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey and Adrianne Noe, director of the museum, to analyze 14 photographs of the whole brain from the Harvey collection that had never been made public. The paper also includes a “road map” prepared by Harvey that links the photographs to the 240 blocks and the microscopic slides prepared from them in hopes that other scientists will use them to do follow-up research. The team compared Einstein’s brain with those of 85 other people and found that the great physicist did indeed have something special between his ears. Although the brain is only average in size, several regions feature additional convolutions and folds rarely seen in others. For example, the regions on the left side of the brain that facilitate sensory inputs into and motor control of the face and tongue are much larger than normal; and his prefrontal cortex — linked to planning, focused attention and perseverance — is also greatly expanded. “In each lobe,” including the frontal, parietal and occipital lobes, “there are regions that are exceptionally complicated in their convolutions,” Falk says. As for the enlarged regions linked to the face and tongue, Falk thinks that this might relate to Einstein’s famous quote that his thinking was often “muscular” rather than done in words. Although this comment is usually interpreted as a metaphor for his subjective experiences as he thought about the universe, “it may be that he used his motor cortex in extraordinary ways” connected to abstract conceptualization, Falk says. Albert Galaburda, a neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School, says that “what’s great about this paper is that it puts down . . . the entire anatomy of Einstein’s brain in great detail.” Nevertheless, Galaburda adds, the study raises “very important questions for which we don’t have an answer.” Among them are whether Einstein started off with a special brain that predisposed him to be a great physicist, or whether doing great physics caused certain parts of his brain to expand. Einstein’s genius, Galaburda says, was probably due to “some combination of a special brain and the environment he lived in.” He suggests that researchers now attempt to compare Einstein’s brain with that of other talented physicists to see if the brain’s features were unique to Einstein or are also seen in other scientists. Falk agrees that both nature and nurture were probably involved, pointing out that Einstein’s parents were “very nurturing” and encouraged him to be independent and creative, not only in science but also in music. (Falk’s 2009 study found that a brain region linked to musical talent was highly developed in Einstein’s brain.) “Einstein programmed his own brain,” Falk says, adding that when physics was ripe for new insights, “he had the right brain in the right place at the right time.” This article was produced by ScienceNOW, the daily online news service of the journal Science.

Chocolate and Slavery….did you know?

Once the world’s leading cacao producer, the tiny nation of São Tomé and Príncipe seems to have fallen off the map. Samantha Weinberg, entranced, went twice in a year—and unearthed a dark history From INTELLIGENT LIFE magazine, March/April 2013

It’s the Guns – But We All Know, It’s Not Really the Guns

It's the Guns – But We All Know, It's Not Really the Guns By Michael Moore Since Cain went nuts and whacked Abel, there have always been those humans who, for one reason or another, go temporarily or permanently insane and commit unspeakable acts of violence. There was the Roman Emperor Tiberius, who during the first century A.D. enjoyed throwing victims off a cliff on the Mediterranean island of Capri. Gilles de Rais, a French knight and ally of Joan of Arc during the middle ages, went cuckoo-for-Cocoa Puffs one day and ended up murdering hundreds of children. Just a few decades later Vlad the Impaler, the inspiration for Dracula, was killing people in Transylvania in numberless horrifying ways. In modern times, nearly every nation has had a psychopath or two commit a mass murder, regardless of how strict their gun laws are – the crazed white supremacist in Norway one year ago Sunday, the schoolyard butcher in Dunblane, Scotland, the École Polytechnique killer in Montreal, the mass murderer in Erfurt, Germany … the list seems endless. And now the Aurora shooter last Friday. There have always been insane people, and there always will be. But here's the difference between the rest of the world and us: We have TWO Auroras that take place every single day of every single year! At least 24 Americans every day (8-9,000 a year) are killed by people with guns – and that doesn't count the ones accidentally killed by guns or who commit suicide with a gun. Count them and you can triple that number to over 25,000. That means the United States is responsible for over 80% of all the gun deaths in the 23 richest countries combined. Considering that the people of those countries, as human beings, are no better or worse than any of us, well, then, why us? Both conservatives and liberals in America operate with firmly held beliefs as to "the why" of this problem. And the reason neither can find their way out of the box toward a real solution is because, in fact, they're both half right. The right believes that the Founding Fathers, through some sort of divine decree, have guaranteed them the absolute right to own as many guns as they desire. And they will ceaselessly remind you that a gun cannot fire itself – that "Guns don't kill people, people kill people." Of course, they know they're being intellectually dishonest (if I can use that word) when they say that about the Second Amendment because they know the men who wrote the constitution just wanted to make sure a militia could be quickly called up from amongst the farmers and merchants should the Brits decide to return and wreak some havoc. But they are half right when they say "Guns don't kill people." I would just alter that slogan slightly to speak the real truth: "Guns don't kill people, Americans kill people." Because we're the only ones in the first world who do this en masse. And you'll hear all stripes of Americans come up with a host of reasons so that they don't have to deal with what's really behind all this murder and mayhem. They'll say it's the violent movies and video games that are responsible. Last time I checked, the movies and video games in Japan are more violent than ours – and yet usually fewer than 20 people a year are killed there with guns – and in 2006 the number was two! Others will say it's the number of broken homes that lead to all this killing. I hate to break this to you, but there are almost as many single-parent homes in the U.K. as there are here – and yet, in Great Britain, there are usually fewer than 40 gun murders a year. People like me will say this is all the result of the U.S. having a history and a culture of men with guns, "cowboys and Indians," "shoot first and ask questions later." And while it is true that the mass genocide of the Native Americans set a pretty ugly model to found a country on, I think it's safe to say we're not the only ones with a violent past or a penchant for genocide. Hello, Germany! That's right I'm talking about you and your history, from the Huns to the Nazis, just loving a good slaughter (as did the Japanese, and the British who ruled the world for hundreds of years – and they didn't achieve that through planting daisies). And yet in Germany, a nation of 80 million people, there are only around 200 gun murders a year. So those countries (and many others) are just like us – except for the fact that more people here believe in God and go to church than any other Western nation. My liberal compatriots will tell you if we just had less guns, there would be less gun deaths. And, mathematically, that would be true. If you have less arsenic in the water supply, it will kill less people. Less of anything bad – calories, smoking, reality TV – will kill far fewer people. And if we had strong gun laws that prohibited automatic and semi-automatic weapons and banned the sale of large magazines that can hold a gazillion bullets, well, then shooters like the man in Aurora would not be able to shoot so many people in just a few minutes. But this, too, has a problem. There are plenty of guns in Canada (mostly hunting rifles) – and yet the annual gun murder count in Canada is around 200 deaths. In fact, because of its proximity, Canada's culture is very similar to ours – the kids play the same violent video games, watch the same movies and TV shows, and yet they don't grow up wanting to kill each other. Switzerland has the third-highest number of guns per capita on earth, but still a low murder rate. So – why us? I posed this question a decade ago in my film 'Bowling for Columbine,' and this week, I have had little to say because I feel I said what I had to say ten years ago – and it doesn't seem to have done a whole lot of good other than to now look like it was actually a crystal ball posing as a movie. This is what I said then, and it is what I will say again today: 1. We Americans are incredibly good killers. We believe in killing as a way of accomplishing our goals. Three-quarters of our states execute criminals, even though the states with the lower murder rates are generally the states with no death penalty. Our killing is not just historical (the slaughter of Indians and slaves and each other in a "civil" war). It is our current way of resolving whatever it is we're afraid of. It's invasion as foreign policy. Sure there's Iraq and Afghanistan – but we've been invaders since we "conquered the wild west" and now we're hooked so bad we don't even know where to invade (bin Laden wasn't hiding in Afghanistan, he was in Pakistan) or what to invade for (Saddam had zero weapons of mass destruction and nothing to do with 9/11). We send our lower classes off to do the killing, and the rest of us who don't have a loved one over there don't spend a single minute of any given day thinking about the carnage. And now we send in remote pilotless planes to kill, planes that are being controlled by faceless men in a lush, air conditioned studio in suburban Las Vegas. It is madness. 2. We are an easily frightened people and it is easy to manipulate us with fear. What are we so afraid of that we need to have 300 million guns in our homes? Who do we think is going to hurt us? Why are most of these guns in white suburban and rural homes? Maybe we should fix our race problem and our poverty problem (again, #1 in the industrialized world) and then maybe there would be fewer frustrated, frightened, angry people reaching for the gun in the drawer. Maybe we would take better care of each other (here's a good example of what I mean). Those are my thoughts about Aurora and the violent country I am a citizen of. Like I said, I spelled it all out here if you'd like to watch it or share it for free with others. All we're lacking here, my friends, is the courage and the resolve. I'm in if you are.

Schools in Africa are going digital—with encouraging results

UNTIL recently Grace Wambui, a 14-year-old pupil in Nairobi, had never touched a tablet computer. But it took her about “one minute”, she says, to work out how to use one when such devices arrived at her school, a tin shack in Kawangware, a slum in the Kenyan capital. Other students at Amaf School were no slower to embrace the new tool. Teaching used to be conducted with a blackboard and a handful of tattered textbooks. Now children in groups of five take turns to swipe the touch screen of the devices, which are loaded with a multimedia version of Kenya’s syllabus. The tablets at Amaf School are an exception; they are part of a pilot project run by eLimu, a technology start-up. But if it and other firms are right, tablets and other digital devices may soon be the rule in African schools: many are betting on a boom in digital education in Kenya and elsewhere. Some executives even expect it to take off like M-Pesa, Kenya’s hugely successful mobile-money service. Such growth in digital education would be timely. The number of children in Africa without school places may have dropped in recent years, but the flood of new pupils has overwhelmed state schools, which were already underfunded and poorly managed. “Business as usual is not working,” says Mike Trucano, an education and technology expert at the World Bank. A for-profit venture, eLimu (“education” in Swahili) is one of several local publishers which are looking to disrupt the business of traditional textbook vendors, which are often slow and expensive. It aims to show that digital content can be cheaper and better. Safaricom, the Kenyan mobile operator that pioneered the M-Pesa service, hopes to repeat its success in digital education. It is developing classroom content, from videotaped lessons to learning applications, that any of Kenya’s 7,000 state secondary schools will be able to access online. The prospect of many of Africa’s 300m pupils learning digitally has not escaped the attention of global technology giants either. Amazon has seen sales of its Kindle e-readers in Africa increase tenfold in the past year. The firm’s developers are adding features to its devices with the African consumer in mind: talking books, new languages and a longer battery life. Intel, a chipmaker, hopes that education will generate much of the double-digit growth it expects in Africa. The firm has been advising African governments and helping them buy entry-level computers. In Nigeria Intel brought together MTN, a telecom carrier, and Cinfores, a local publisher, to provide exam-preparation tools over mobile phones, a service that has become hugely popular. Such success shows that even the poor are willing to pay for digital education—as they already do for the conventional kind. In Kenya eight out of ten parents pay tuition for courses outside school. Amaf School charges about $10 a month. Start-ups such as eLimu hope to make money with micro-payments, very small sums paid per download. A bigger question is whether digital tools will actually improve education. Early results are encouraging. In Ghana reading skills improved measurably among 350 children that had been given Kindle e-readers by Worldreader, a charity. In Ethiopia researchers found that even in the absence of teachers, children figured out how to use tablets provided to them by One Laptop Per Child, another charity, to teach themselves to read. At Amaf School, average marks in science, for instance, went from 58 to 73 out of 100 in a single term, says Peter Lalo Outa, the headmaster. That is good news for eLimu. “We want to prove that learning outcomes are improved,” says Nivi Mukherjee, the firm’s boss, “and not use technology for technology’s sake.”

Are you worried about the world coming to an end on December 12th?

Dec. 21, 2012, won't be the end of the world as we know, however, it will be another winter solstice. Contrary to some of the common beliefs out there, the claims behind the end of the world quickly unravel when pinned down to the 2012 timeline. Below, NASA Scientists answer questions on the following 2012 topics: End of the World 'Prediction' Origins Mayan Calendar Planetary Alignment Nibiru/Planet X/Eris Polar Shift Meteor Strike NASA Science Solar Storms Question (Q): Are there any threats to the Earth in 2012? Many Internet websites say the world will end in December 2012. Answer (A):The world will not end in 2012. Our planet has been getting along just fine for more than 4 billion years, and credible scientists worldwide know of no threat associated with 2012. Q: What is the origin of the prediction that the world will end in 2012? A: The story started with claims that Nibiru, a supposed planet discovered by the Sumerians, is headed toward Earth. This catastrophe was initially predicted for May 2003, but when nothing happened the doomsday date was moved forward to December 2012 and linked to the end of one of the cycles in the ancient Mayan calendar at the winter solstice in 2012 -- hence the predicted doomsday date of December 21, 2012. Q: Does the Mayan calendar end in December 2012? A: Just as the calendar you have on your kitchen wall does not cease to exist after December 31, the Mayan calendar does not cease to exist on December 21, 2012. This date is the end of the Mayan long-count period but then -- just as your calendar begins again on January 1 -- another long-count period begins for the Mayan calendar. Q: Could planets align in a way that impacts Earth? A: There are no planetary alignments in the next few decades and even if these alignments were to occur, their effects on the Earth would be negligible. One major alignment occurred in 1962, for example, and two others happened during 1982 and 2000. Each December the Earth and sun align with the approximate center of the Milky Way Galaxy but that is an annual event of no consequence. › More about alignment "There apparently is a great deal of interest in celestial bodies, and their locations and trajectories at the end of the calendar year 2012. Now, I for one love a good book or movie as much as the next guy. But the stuff flying around through cyberspace, TV and the movies is not based on science. There is even a fake NASA news release out there..." - Don Yeomans, NASA senior research scientist Q: Is there a planet or brown dwarf called Nibiru or Planet X or Eris that is approaching the Earth and threatening our planet with widespread destruction? A: Nibiru and other stories about wayward planets are an Internet hoax. There is no factual basis for these claims. If Nibiru or Planet X were real and headed for an encounter with the Earth in 2012, astronomers would have been tracking it for at least the past decade, and it would be visible by now to the naked eye. Obviously, it does not exist. Eris is real, but it is a dwarf planet similar to Pluto that will remain in the outer solar system; the closest it can come to Earth is about 4 billion miles. Q: What is the polar shift theory? Is it true that the Earth's crust does a 180-degree rotation around the core in a matter of days if not hours? A: A reversal in the rotation of Earth is impossible. There are slow movements of the continents (for example Antarctica was near the equator hundreds of millions of years ago), but that is irrelevant to claims of reversal of the rotational poles. However, many of the disaster websites pull a bait-and-switch to fool people. They claim a relationship between the rotation and the magnetic polarity of Earth, which does change irregularly, with a magnetic reversal taking place every 400,000 years on average. As far as we know, such a magnetic reversal doesn’t cause any harm to life on Earth. Scientists believe a magnetic reversal is very unlikely to happen in the next few millennia. › More about polar shift Q: Is the Earth in danger of being hit by a meteor in 2012? A: The Earth has always been subject to impacts by comets and asteroids, although big hits are very rare. The last big impact was 65 million years ago, and that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs. Today NASA astronomers are carrying out a survey called the Spaceguard Survey to find any large near-Earth asteroids long before they hit. We have already determined that there are no threatening asteroids as large as the one that killed the dinosaurs. All this work is done openly with the discoveries posted every day on the NASA Near-Earth Object Program Office website, so you can see for yourself that nothing is predicted to hit in 2012. Q: How do NASA scientists feel about claims of the world ending in 2012? A: For any claims of disaster or dramatic changes in 2012, where is the science? Where is the evidence? There is none, and for all the fictional assertions, whether they are made in books, movies, documentaries or over the Internet, we cannot change that simple fact. There is no credible evidence for any of the assertions made in support of unusual events taking place in December 2012. › Why you need not fear a supernova › About super volcanoes Q: Is there a danger from giant solar storms predicted for 2012? A: Solar activity has a regular cycle, with peaks approximately every 11 years. Near these activity peaks, solar flares can cause some interruption of satellite communications, although engineers are learning how to build electronics that are protected against most solar storms. But there is no special risk associated with 2012. The next solar maximum will occur in the 2012-2014 time frame and is predicted to be an average solar cycle, no different than previous cycles throughout history. › Video: Solar Storms › More about solar storms

Steven Schwarzman, CEO of the Blackstone Group In 2010, Schwarzman compared Obama's efforts to raise taxes on private equity firms to "war...like when Hitler invaded Poland in 1939." The Blackstone Group's stock price has more than tripled since Obama took office.

Ivan Seidenberg, CEO of Verizon Seidenberg has complained that the Obama administration has created an "increasingly hostile environment for investment and job creation." Verizon's stock price has risen 40 percent since Obama took office.

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Muhtar Kent, CEO of Coca-Cola Kent compared Obama's proposal to tax soft drinks to communism in 2009. Coca-Cola's stock price has spiked 71 percent since Obama took office.

7 Obama-Hating CEOs Who’ve Thrived Under Obama (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post | By Bonnie Kavoussi Posted: 11/14/2012 6:06 pm EST

Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase Dimon has complained that the government hasn't done enough to help business. Meanwhile, JPMorgan's stock price has spiked 64 percent since Obama took office.

Necessity is the Mother of Invention

Possibly one of the more unexpected products at Maker Faire Africa this year in Lagos is a urine powered generator, created by four girls. The girls are Duro-Aina Adebola (14), Akindele Abiola (14), Faleke Oluwatoyin (14) and Bello Eniola (15).

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by Lois Beckett ProPublica, Oct. 22, 2012, 2:07 p.m.

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The Nobel Prize in Physics went to work that could revolutionize technology.

Just as we were all settling in front of the television to watch the baseball playoffs, two new studies about the perils of sitting have spoiled our viewing pleasure.

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These maps show how early spring is arriving in your state this year – Vox

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Suite No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009: I. Prelude

RSS Int’l Business

  • China November exports unexpectedly fall, but imports rebound December 8, 2019
    China's exports in November shrank for the fourth consecutive month, customs data showed on Sunday, confounding market expectations for a rise and underscoring persistent pressures on manufacturers from the Sino-U.S. trade dispute.
  • China's November trade surplus with U.S. at $24.60 billion vs $26.45 billion in October December 8, 2019
    China's trade surplus with the United States for November stood at $24.60 billion, Reuters calculation based on Chinese customs data showed on Sunday, easing from the previous month's surplus of $26.45 billion.
  • Mexico, U.S. draw closer to finalizing USMCA: source December 7, 2019
    U.S. and Mexican negotiators are "very close" to finalizing the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, a Washington-based source familiar with the talks said on Saturday, after a top Mexico official said the two sides had made progress on the trade deal.
  • Amazon CEO says wants to work more with Pentagon December 7, 2019
    Amazon.com Inc founder Jeff Bezos said it would support the U.S. Department of Defense as technology companies vie for more defense contracts and the Pentagon seeks to modernize itself.

Amy Winehouse – He Can Only Hold Her – Doo Wop (That Thing) – Live HD

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  • Nikki Haley’s Confederate Flag Comments Spark Backlash December 8, 2019
    She told the conservative radio host Glenn Beck that the Confederate flag symbolized “service, sacrifice and heritage” for some people in her state until Dylann S. Roof “hijacked” it.
    By Aimee Ortiz
  • Buttigieg Struggles to Square Transparency With Nondisclosure Agreement December 7, 2019
    Mr. Buttigieg says he has no choice but to honor the agreement he signed while working for McKinsey & Company. Critics say it undermines his image of transparency.
    By Sydney Ember, Reid J. Epstein and Trip Gabriel
  • Trump Can’t Resist Campaigning for Governors. But They Can Resist Him. December 7, 2019
    The president appears to love nothing more than injecting himself into governor’s races, though once in office, the governors don’t seem to feel they owe him much.
    By Maggie Haberman

Alice Smith – New Religion (Album version)

RSS Business

  • PG&E Reaches $13.5 Billion Deal With Wildfire Victims December 7, 2019
    The agreement could help tens of thousands of residents rebuild while helping to resolve the utility’s bankruptcy.
    Ivan Penn, Lauren Hepler and Peter Eavis
  • How Aramco’s Huge I.P.O. Fell Short of Saudi Prince’s Wish December 6, 2019
    As investors balked, some bankers and Saudi officials still hoped to achieve the crown prince’s target price of $2 trillion. They wound up settling for less.
    Kate Kelly and Stanley Reed
  • Why Apple Scrapped the Release of Its Oscar Contender, ‘The Banker’ December 7, 2019
    A fact-based story starring Samuel L. Jackson and Anthony Mackie was supposed to hit theaters Friday. Then a complaint by a relative of the film’s hero gave Apple second thoughts.
    Nicole Sperling
  • Last Tax Season Was a Mess. Now’s Time to Prepare for This One. December 6, 2019
    If you didn’t change the tax withholding in your paycheck, you still have time to avoid another unpleasant surprise — or even a fine.
    Tara Siegel Bernard
  • Elon Musk Is Cleared in Lawsuit Over His ‘Pedo Guy’ Tweet December 6, 2019
    A jury found that the Tesla billionaire did not defame a cave explorer in a dispute over a rescue effort in Thailand last year.
    Niraj Chokshi and Eric A. Taub

Jessie Reyez – Crazy (Audio)

RSS Baseball

  • Hall of Fame Takes Another Swing at an Underappreciated Era December 7, 2019
    Ted Simmons and Dale Murphy are among 10 candidates for election by the Veterans Committee, whose choices will be announced on Sunday. The former pitcher Ron Darling offered his thoughts on the seven he faced.
    By Tyler Kepner
  • Gerrit Cole, the Yankees and the Value of the Long Game December 6, 2019
    Brian Cashman drafted Cole, and lost him. Tried to trade for him, and lost out again. Now, in free agency, is he finally in position to get his man?
    By Tyler Kepner
  • The Mets’ Would-Be Rescuer Is Far From a Hero December 6, 2019
    Steven Cohen’s bid for the team may thrill fans tired of the Wilpon era, but his billions come with baggage.
    By Michael Powell

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RSS NBA

  • NBA is trying too hard to perfect officiating December 6, 2019
    The addition of the coach's challenge this season has only put the spotlight on referee mistakes. It's never going to get rid of them.
    Yahoo Sports
  • Harden has big 4th quarter, Rockets beat Suns 115-109 December 8, 2019
    On a night where James Harden's shots weren't falling for three quarters, the Houston Rockets got big performances from those in supporting roles until the star stepped up late to close out the victory. Harden scored 18 of his 34 points in the fourth quarter and Ben McLemore added 27 points
    The Associated Press
  • Knicks lose on missed FT in 1st game since firing Fizdale December 8, 2019
    The New York Knicks didn't have any close games in David Fizdale's final days, then got one right away under interim coach Mike Miller. Julius Randle's missed free throw ended their chance to win it, but just being competitive again was a good start after a rough couple of days. Randle
    The Associated Press

Betty Carter – ‘Round midnight

RSS Environment

  • World’s Oceans Are Losing Oxygen Rapidly, Study Finds December 7, 2019
    A new report found that oxygen levels in the world’s oceans declined by 2 percent over 50 years, threatening marine life around the planet.
    Kendra Pierre-Louis
  • California Bans Insurers From Dropping Policies Made Riskier by Climate Change December 5, 2019
    The state's unusual decision exposes the insurance industry’s miscalculation of the cost of climate change.
    Christopher Flavelle and Brad Plumer
  • Climate Change Is Accelerating, Bringing World ‘Dangerously Close’ to Irreversible Change December 5, 2019
    The acceleration climate change's effects have brought the world “dangerously close” to abrupt and irreversible changes, scientists warned. 
    Henry Fountain

The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Blue Rondo à la Turk

RSS Television

  • ‘The L Word: Generation Q’ Review: New Vision, Old Blind Spots December 5, 2019
    Ten years after the original ended, the groundbreaking Showtime series returns with a cast that is more diverse if still a bit fantastical.
    Elisabeth Vincentelli
  • ‘Reprisal’ Review: A Femme Fatale on the Midnight Train to Revenge December 6, 2019
    In Hulu’s “Reprisal,” Abigail Spencer plays a woman on an implacable mission in a Southern gothic tale of brawling gangs and tender male pride.
    Mike Hale
  • The Impeachment Show Fleshes Out Its Back Story December 5, 2019
    The congressional saga returned to TV, shifting modes from foreign-intrigue thriller to constitutional documentary.
    James Poniewozik

Patrick Baker – Call Me Up (Official Music Video)

RSS Wired Tech

  • What Your Klout Score Really Means December 8, 2019
    Your Klout score is gaining in importance: A high one might bring perks, but a low one could dash your career dreams.
    Seth Stevenson
  • ‘Randomizers’ Are Breathing New Life Into Old Games December 7, 2019
    A small but growing community in the retro emulation scene is using  a class of mods and hacks to revamp the classics. 
    Scott White, Ars Technica
  • 3D Printing Can Keep Aging Air Force Aircraft Flying December 7, 2019
    And the military wants you—to help it make spare parts for decades-old B-52 bombers and other planes. 
    Alex Davies

Jax Jones – This Is Real (feat. Ella Henderson)

RSS NFL

  • Eli Manning Is Ready for Another Chance December 7, 2019
    Manning, the longtime Giants quarterback, is in line for his first start in three months with Daniel Jones injured.
    By Danielle Allentuck
  • N.F.L. Week 14 Predictions: Our Picks Against the Spread December 6, 2019
    Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs look for revenge against the Patriots, the Saints host the 49ers, and the Ravens and Seahawks try to stay hot on what should be a chaotic Sunday.
    By Benjamin Hoffman
  • Are the Patriots Vulnerable at Last? Don’t Bet on It December 6, 2019
    They have lost two of their last four games, and much of their 10-2 record was built against weak teams. But fears, and anticipation, of their decline seem misplaced.
    By Bill Pennington
  • Football Is Dying in Ohio. A Coach in This County Made It Thrive. December 5, 2019
    Demographics suggest football should be dying in Mercer County. Instead it’s booming and producing state champions.
    By Joe Drape

My Cherie Amour – Stevie Wonder

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Summer Walker: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

RSS From another perspective

  • Pensacola attack: Gunman 'played mass-shooting videos at dinner' December 8, 2019
    The Saudi student played footage at a dinner before killing three at Florida base, reports say.
  • Trump impeachment: House Democrats make constitutional case December 8, 2019
    Democrats lay out their constitutional grounds for impeachment as the process gathers pace.
  • US and Iranian men released in prisoner swap December 7, 2019
    Xiyue Wang was jailed in Iran in 2016 while Massoud Soleimani was arrested at a US airport last year.

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RSS College Football

  • L.S.U. Makes Case for Top Seed in Playoff With SEC Win December 8, 2019
    Louisiana State dominated fourth-ranked Georgia from the outset, and Joe Burrow made his case to lock up the Heisman Trophy.
    By Alan Blinder
  • Lane Kiffin Hired by Ole Miss as Next Coach December 8, 2019
    The announcement came after Kiffin led Florida Atlantic to a win in the Conference USA title game.
    By The Associated Press
  • Utah Had a Shot at the College Football Playoff. Oregon Spoiled It. December 7, 2019
    Utah, ranked fifth by the committee that decides the playoff, was upended by Oregon in the Pac-12 Conference title game, 37-15.
    By Billy Witz

Israel López ‘Cachao’ – Mambo Cambió de Swing

Beginning with “My Soul to Keep,” Tananarive Due laid the framework of a series which told the story of a secret sect of Ethiopians (the Life Brothers), who were blessed (or cursed) with the gift of immortality, 400 years ago. After many years of strife, and pain, one of the immortals, Dawit (David) Wolde found happiness in present day Miami. With a loving wife, Jessica, and a caring daughter, Kira, Dawit seemed to have found a semblance of peace after a life filled with loss and tragedy. Their idyllic life was soon destroyed, when Dawit’s past finally caught up with him, leading to a heartbreaking, and life changing conclusion for everyone involved.

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RSS Sports

  • Anthony Joshua Takes Back Heavyweight Crown from Andy Ruiz December 8, 2019
    A no-nonsense decision victory put Joshua’s star career back on track. Ruiz acknowledged too much revelry after his previous win and not enough preparation for the rematch.
    By The Associated Press
  • L.S.U. Makes Case for Top Seed in Playoff With SEC Win December 8, 2019
    Louisiana State dominated fourth-ranked Georgia from the outset, and Joe Burrow made his case to lock up the Heisman Trophy.
    By Alan Blinder
  • Henrik Stenson Wins the Hero World Challenge December 7, 2019
    His 1-shot victory included an eagle on the 15th hole in the final round.
    By The Associated Press
  • Eli Manning Is Ready for Another Chance December 7, 2019
    Manning, the longtime Giants quarterback, is in line for his first start in three months with Daniel Jones injured.
    By Danielle Allentuck
  • Will the Next Great Male Ski Racer Please Come Down the Hill? December 6, 2019
    Mikaela Shiffrin dominates women’s ski racing. The retirement of Marcel Hirscher has left void on the men’s side.
    By Shauna Farnell

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