The luxury German kitchen workhorse, which steams, blends, kneads, chops, and can cook a risotto in 16 minutes flat, has attracted the attention of politicians, foodies and browsers alike.
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Saturday 28 February 2015
The kitchen appliance dividing Australia
The luxury German kitchen workhorse, which steams, blends, kneads, chops, and can cook a risotto in 16 minutes flat, has attracted the attention of politicians, foodies and browsers alike.
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Is Kim Jong Un the Last Bad Bond Guy?
The morning of July 1 last summer began like any other for Peter Hahn, a 74-year-old who had come to do extraordinary things in a place that he would never call godforsaken but which, nonetheless, is. Tumen, China, sits on the border with North Korea; it’s a gritty city of 140,000, more than half of which is ethnically Korean.
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Will 'Parks and Recreation' Be the Last Great NBC Comedy?
The departure of Parks and Recreation Tuesday night marked an even greater loss for TV than one might think. The show had an undeniably good run—seven seasons, with perhaps a slight quality dip in the middle before it rebounded for a grand sendoff. But its finale means there are now only three comedy programs currently broadcast by NBC: About a Boy, Marry Me and Undateable, not one of which is a crown jewel in the network's roster.
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To Fight Homegrown Jihadis, Germany Takes Lesson From Battle With Neo-Nazis
Germany has turned away hundreds of neo-Nazis from violence and reintegrated them into society. Could the same approach work for German would-be jihadis?
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Friday 27 February 2015
A Sprinter's Fight to Prove She's a Woman
In a matter of two months, Dutee Chand went from being hailed as India's "sure shot Olympic medalist" to studying to become a train ticket collector. It all began last summer, a few days before a team of more than 200 Indian athletes was set to leave for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland. Chand, the 18-year-old 100m national champion sprinter, was dropped from the list.
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Internet slang meets American Sign Language
As language evolves, the powers that regulate language tend to shift. Just look at the Oxford English Dictionary, who added terms like “duck face,” “lolcat,” and “hawt” to their prestigious lexicon this past December. But how do these new, internet-laden turns of phrase enter the sign language community? Was there a way of expressing “selfie" in ASL, was there a sign for “photobomb?” Our simplistic question turned into a larger conversation about the nature of communication.
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Stone Age Britons Were Eating Wheat 2,000 Years Before They Farmed It
Scientists have recovered cultivated wheat DNA from an 8,000-year-old submerged site off the British coast. The finding suggests hunter-gatherers were trading for the grain long before they grew it.
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Stone Age Britons Were Eating Wheat 2,000 Years Before They Farmed It
Scientists have recovered cultivated wheat DNA from an 8,000-year-old submerged site off the British coast. The finding suggests hunter-gatherers were trading for the grain long before they grew it.
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Hybrid war: The Real Reason Fighting Stopped in Ukraine – For Now
President Vladimir Putin understands how insurgencies work better than any other Russian leader. We are watching this play out right now in Ukraine.
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Thursday 26 February 2015
It’s So Cold You Could Walk Across Lake Erie
Let's make this clear right away: In no way is it a good idea to trek from United States to Canada via Lake Erie, which is currently a frozen wasteland of ice, wind, and snow. But perils aside, is it possible? Especially considering that, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 95 percent of Lake Erie is now covered by ice.
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How science made an honest man of God
Until the Scientific Revolution, God’s power included a licence to deceive. How did science make an honest man of Him?
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Are ET3 magnetic levitation tubes the future of Vancouver Island transit?
Technology company ET3 is advocating for a futuristic tube transportation system on Vancouver Island, that could move passengers from Nanaimo to Swartz Bay using magnetic levitation. "It is literally space transport on earth," Daryl Oster, founder and CEO of U.S.-based ET3, told On The Island's Gregor Craigie. "It's car-sized vehicles that are magnetically levitated and they operate in a network of tubes that have almost all of the air removed from them, to remove almost...
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Wednesday 25 February 2015
Photographer captures bizarre, intimate scenes of Chinese factory life
The Lunar New Year is the only time of year China's army of migrant workers gets to go home. Known as "chunyun," the annual travel crush is the world's largest migration of humans. The lengths workers go to to see their families during the country's biggest holiday, which this year began February 19, is one facet of migrant worker life captured by factory hand turned photographer, Zhan Youbing.
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How an Undocumented Immigrant From Mexico Became a Star at Goldman Sachs
Sitting at her desk at Goldman Sachs, Julissa Arce is doing her best to keep it together. It’s September 2007. Her father is dying in Taxco de Alarcón, a small and hilly city in Mexico, and she has just hung up after a call from her sister with bad news. Arce stands and leaves the row where she and her colleagues create derivatives and market them to rich people. She walks down the hall, opens the bathroom door, and locks herself in a stall.
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1959 Chevrolet Corvette: All American Sports Car
The white Corvette in this press release photo from Chevrolet shows off a couple of the subtle changes Chevy made to the Vette for the ’59 model year.
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The semiotics of controller design
Circle, Square, Triangle, and X. Sony was up to something when they made the PlayStation controller. They attempted to reach deep into the minds of humans and subtly instruct them in how to use their newfangled controller.
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How Crazy Am I to Think I Actually Know Where That Malaysia Airlines Plane Is?
The unsettling oddness was there from the first moment, on March 8, when Malaysia Airlines announced that a plane from Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing, Flight 370, had disappeared over the South China Sea in the middle of the night. There had been no bad weather, no distress call, no wreckage, no eyewitness accounts of a fireball in the sky—just a plane that said good-bye to one air-traffic controller and, two minutes later, failed to say hello to the next. And the crash, if it was a crash...
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Two Lands - Greenland | Iceland
"Two Lands - Greenland | Iceland" is the result of a very brief 10 day shoot I did. The video is a compilation of some of the footage I shot while there. Some of the other shots are in lockdown by the client so I used what I could to create this video. I spent 4 days shooting in Iceland and 6 days shooting in Greenland.
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The Luxury Liner of the Future
Watching the process of loading a cruise ship is a bewildering spectacle of logistics and organization. Tons of food and drink join a seemingly endless assembly of trucks packed with other essential supplies—lugging aboard a menagerie of goods aimed at anticipating the every need of paying passengers. Which is a sort of nice way of saying: There’s a lot of junk that gets loaded onto a cruise ship. And even more that ends up coming off of it.
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The Lone Seven-Year-Olds Leaving Home and Country Behind
Children as young as seven are traveling thousands of miles alone, across land and sea - some are sent by their parents who don't want them to grow up in repressive countries such as Eritrea.
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Tiananmen Square ‘Negatives’: An Art Book or a Protest?
When paging through Xu Yong’s book of negatives of the 1989 demonstrations, readers can unlock the full images with an iPhone.
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Canadian Sniper (American Sniper Parody)
CANADIAN SNIPER, Starring Fake Bradley Cooper. A deadly domestic moose attack spurs an unlikely hero into action in this parody based on that trailer for that movie based on that book.
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Tuesday 24 February 2015
The surprising history of gay marriage in the Navajo nation
The Navajos have a rich, documented history of accepting and even honoring people that identified with different genders and sexual preferences. Their language has at least one term for tribe members that don’t fit traditional heterosexual roles: nádleehÃ. Navajo nádleehí indivudals were associated with wealth and the families that they were born in to were considered fortunate. But that began to change.
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Sweden Renames a Bunch of Birds to Make Sure No One Thinks They're Racist
Sweden’s Ornithological Society has changed the names of a bunch of birds because they were concerned that the old names sounded racist.
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Japan makes clocks which will keep time for 16 billion years
“Cryogenic optical lattice clocks” are not pretty — they look more like giant stripped-down desktop computers than ordinary wall clocks — but they are so precise that current technology cannot even measure them. The research team led by Hidetoshi Katori, a professor at the University of Tokyo, believes it has taken the technology way beyond the atomic clocks that are currently used to define the “second”.
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The Ajanta Caves: Discovering lost treasure
The Ajanta Caves were a sanctuary for Buddhist monks that was forgotten, along with its stunning riches, for nearly 1,500 years.
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Monday 23 February 2015
Sunset at Alghero, Sardinia, Italy
I was here. Great seafood and wine, warm seas but they are full of seaweed.
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The Wildflower Center
The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin is more than just a place to see wildflowers. It’s also a research and resource center for information on native plants, landscape restoration, and water conservation.
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Arabia was Once a Lush Paradise of Grass and Woodlands
Nowadays Arabia is a fierce desert, but it was once densely vegetated, and could have been a home to the first humans that left Africa.
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29 Surreal Places In America You Need To Visit Before You Die
If you live in the U.S., you don't need a passport to see what mother nature has to offer.
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Moose On the Loose Gets Police Escort in Timmins,Ontario
A moose got a police escort this weekend when it unexpectedly made its way through some city streets.
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Women are leaving the tech industry in droves
Ana Redmond launched into a technology career for an exciting challenge and a chance to change the world. She was well-equipped to succeed too: An ambitious math and science wiz, she could code faster, with fewer errors, than anyone she knew.
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Banned From Carrying Passengers in Spain, Uber Now Delivers Food
After a court last year forced Uber Technologies off the road in Spain, the car-hailing company is back—but delivering prepared meals instead of shuttling people around. Uber on Thursday said it opened a type of food delivery service in Barcelona, similar to one it offers in California. Drivers’ cars are stocked up with prepared meals, which are sold for about €10 plus a €2.50 delivery fee ($14).
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Antarctica: Mystery continent holds key to mankind's future
Earth's past, present and future come together here on the northern peninsula of Antarctica, the wildest, most desolate and mysterious of its continents. Clues to answering humanity's most basic questions are locked in this continental freezer the size of the United States and half of Canada: Where did we come from? Are we alone in the universe? What's the fate of our warming planet?
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We must bulldoze what’s left of the nerdy white men’s Internet
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about a 2002 episode of Malcolm in the Middle called “Cliques.” It follows Malcolm and the other members of the gifted class—referred to on the show as “Krelboynes”—as they’re forced to assimilate back into the general population of the school. In the beginning of the episode, they blow up their classroom in a failed science experiment and have to spend several weeks separated from one another as they attempt to attend normal, non-gifted classes.
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Hollywood’s Tired War Porn
In the age of the all-volunteer military and an endless stream of war zone losses and ties, it can be hard to keep Homeland enthusiasm up for perpetual war. After all, you don’t get a 9/11 every year to refresh those images of the barbarians at the airport departure gates. In the meantime, Americans are clearly finding it difficult to remain emotionally roiled up about our confusing wars in Syria and Iraq, the sputtering one in Afghanistan...
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Sunday 22 February 2015
Japanese Company Introduces Robot That Feeds You Tomatoes While You Jog
In a move likely to be applauded by people who want a robot attached to their body that will serve them tomatoes while they jog, the Japanese company Kagome has introduced a robot you can attach to your body that will serve you tomatoes while you jog. From AFP-Jiji (AFP...
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Card game about exploding kittens overtakes Ouya's Kickstarter record
The internet loves cats, so it just seems fitting that a Kickstarter campaign called Exploding Kittens has dethroned Ouya as the highest-funded project in the site's games category. It was created by Xbox game designers Elan Lee and Shane Small, but it's not a video game, if that's what you were thinking. Instead, it's card game illustrated by their co-creator Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal, which the internet loves almost as much as it loves cats.
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Documentary claims Putin was a lazy wife-beater who only turned his life around when KGB collapsed
Vladimir Putin was regularly violent to his ex-wife Lyudmila during their marriage, a German documentary on the Russian leader has claimed. Putin the Man, made by ZDF television and shown this week, claimed to have been given access to the unseen files of an unidentified Western intelligence agency. They included details of Mr Putin’s time as a young KGB officer stationed in Dresden in the Eighties, as well as his rise to power in Russia.
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Sherlock Holmes, London: Visiting the City the Great Detective Knew
A riveting exhibition, here, at the Museum of London has capitalized on the full-blown Sherlockmania that seems to have seized the Western world, judging by a new spate of movies, television shows and books.
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Saturday 21 February 2015
Enter an Abandoned World, Frozen in Time
The decaying buildings and derelict landscapes urban explorer Andre Govia encountered were often vandalized, demolished or converted into newer structures. To preserve a record of the unseen history decomposing before him, he brought a camera. Soon, documentation turned to art.
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How Often People in Various Countries Shower
A poll from 562 people - not a huge sample, but still an interesting read.
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How a Mexican Mafia killer became a law enforcement darling
The man sitting in the back of the vehicle is wearing a light-colored shirt, a patterned tie and an air of authority. He's headed to a conference in Anaheim to give a speech and, as trees, hedges and apartment buildings flash by, he rattles off a list of accomplishments — his book, his expert witness testimony. "This has been a dream of mine," he says in the online video, referring to his speaking invitation. "You know how many people have said, 'You can't do it'?"
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How Apple Reinvented Premium
It was 1991 when we got our first Mac. It was a Macintosh LC, nicknamed “the pizza box”, and “LC” I now know stood for Low Cost, but I don’t remember it being cheap. In fact, at over $2000 it was the most expensive thing I had ever bought, next to my car. A relentless series of desktops, PowerBooks and MacBooks, and now iPhones and iPads later, I still buy Apple products and expect to pay substantially more than for non-Apple choices. My new iPhone is at least two times the cost of an Android...
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For The First Time, An Afghan First Lady Steps Into The Spotlight
In a country where women are seen but not often heard, Rula Ghani intends to play a prominent role. The wife of Afghanistan's new president hopes to help the country's most vulnerable people. In an interview at the Afghan Embassy in Washington, D.C., with Morning Edition host Renee Montagne, Ghani discusses the challenges facing Afghanistan, her opinion on the needs of the country's most vulnerable populations and what she would like Americans to know about Afghanistan.
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The Order: 1886 Dev Says "Internet Is The New Playground For Bullies"
"The Internet is the new playground for bullies," according to The Order: 1886 creator Ready at Dawn. In a new interview, the studio talks about the hate-filled nature of the Internet and again speaks out to discuss the ongoing controversy surrounding the length of the upcoming PlayStation 4 game. Game director Dana Jan told Develop that when discussing quantity (The Order: 1886 was first pegged to only be five hours long, something Ready at Dawn has since denied)...
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