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Affirmative Action Isn’t Reverse Racism
AlJazeera - Al Jazeera
In 1998, apparently frustrated with his application process for entry to medical school, Vijay Chokal-Ingam, who is Indian-American and the brother of comedian Mindy Kaling, decided to try a social experiment:
The woman who faces the wrath of North Korea
The Guardian - Maryanne Vollers
Photograph: Yao Dawei/AP ‘One of the very few growing industries in North Korea is this operation of trying to compromise defectors and witnesses’ ... the leader, Kim Yong-un and military chiefs. Photograph:
We need to be pragmatic about the principle of net neutrality
The Guardian - John Naughton
Attempts by content providers such as Comcast to charge for fast-lane delivery must be resisted but data transmission needs to adapt to changes in technology The composer and aesthete Lord Berners was
Why police are rarely indicted for misconduct
AlJazeera - Al Jazeera
On Monday evening, St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert P. McCulloch announced that a grand jury decided not to indict Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson for the Aug. 9 shooting of
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Mark Cuban On Obama's Plan For The Internet: 'The Government Will F--- The Internet Up'
Business Insider - Jay Yarow
He's been bashing plans to regulate the internet, and questioning other people who support it. Over email we asked him about the potential for small companies to be stifled by internet providers. His "I'm
Why corporations are desperate to destroy net neutrality
Salon - Jim Hightower
(Associated Press) November 13, 2014 4:45PM (UTC) This article originally appeared on AlterNet. When it comes to Internet Service Providers and high-speed Internet, the consumer marketplace has hardly
The afterlife of plastic
AlJazeera - Al Jazeera
James King-Holmes / Science Source BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — For the past few weeks, Moinuddin Sarker has been driving up and down the Connecticut coast looking for a large warehouse facility. He needs it to
Social Media
How BuzzFeed infected the Internet with a killer virus
Digital Trends - Simon Cohen
You’ve been infected. Just now. This morning, I bet. You’ve already been exposed to 17 amazing things that you will love, a quiz to find out which of …
The Complete Taylor Swiftology: A Glossary of Symbols
spin.com - Andrew Unterberger
As befits a singer/songwriter who was young enough to have been reading The Scarlet Letter in Language Arts class when she became famous, Taylor …
A cosy little house on Mars? Cities in space – in pictures
The Guardian - Jessa Gamble
While the groovy space colonies of the 1970s never materialised, recent developments in space travel and life support have revived the dream to live off-planet
Rosetta selfie, bands of Mars and ghostly spokes of Saturn – in pictures
The Guardian - Eric Hilaire and Sajid Shaikh
Our monthly roundup of best space-related imagery in the known universe includes the second largest spiral galaxy found by Hubble Space Telescope, the North America Nebula and a snap of the cosmos filled
Caesium: A brief history of timekeeping
bbc.co.uk - By Justin Rowlatt
Caesium is the chemical element that has literally redefined time. All your life you'll have been told the importance of being on time. Well, thanks to caesium the entire world now keeps time so accurately
Francis: The Pope's calling
bbc.co.uk
With leaders of the Catholic Church about to gather in the Vatican to consider the future of the Church's teaching on the family, the BBC's director of news and current affairs, James Harding, asks whether
Syria
Syria: US begins air strikes on Islamic State targets
bbc.co.uk
http://vod-pro-ww-live.akamaized.net/mps_h264_hi/public/news/world/1110000/1110513_h264_1500k.mp4?__gda__=1550754382_66bc410aac54cbc0276591c8c6be3947 The US and five Arab allies have launched the first
Europeans drawn from three ancient 'tribes'
bbc.co.uk - By Paul Rincon
The modern European gene pool was formed when three ancient populations mixed within the last 7,000 years, Nature journal reports. Blue-eyed, swarthy hunters mingled with brown-eyed, pale skinned farmers