When I was in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia recently as part of the U.S. government’s delegation to the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, I was struck by how much the international development landscape is changing.
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SHANGHAI A huge explosion ripped through a chemical plant in eastern China, killing one person and injuring nine, Xinhua news agency said, less than two weeks after two deadly blasts destroyed a warehouse storing chemicals in the northeast.
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(CNN)The latest crisis involving North Korea appears to be ebbing. It started when Pyongyang’s forces allegedly placed landmines on the South Korean side of the demilitarized zone (DMZ). Two South Korean soldiers were nearly killed by the mines earlier this month.
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Sharing childcare makes for happier couples with better sex lives, US research suggests. In a study of 487 families, parents who split childcare duties evenly reported greater satisfaction, both sexually and emotionally.
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Keepers at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington DC only discovered Mei Xiang was pregnant during an ultrasound scan last week. Giant pandas are one of the most endangered species in the world and are notoriously hard to breed in captivity.
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Smartphones with more than 128GB of storage are still extremely rare, but they just became a little more accessible… if you live in Brazil, at least. ASUS has unveiled a Delxue Special Edition of the Zenfone 2 that includes a cavernous 256GB of storage.
http://engt.co/1MLYnA8
Paju, South Korea (CNN)At a time of mounting tensions and heated rhetoric on the Korean peninsula, the two sides concluded nearly 10 hours of talks early Sunday at the historic “truce village” inside the Demilitarized Zone with plans to meet again later in the day, South Korean officials said.
http://cnn.it/1MLYnA9
ATHENS Greek opposition leaders took things easy on Sunday in their quest for a new coalition, ignoring calls from home and abroad for a rapid move to elections so the country can deal with its simultaneous economic and humanitarian crises.
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This one is explored in depth over at nelhagedebugsshit.tumblr.com. MongoDB has two different approaches to building indexes, selectable by the operator at index-creation time.
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The CEO of the world’s leading DNA sequencing company says he knows how to finally get consumers interested in their genomes: by creating an enormous app store for genetic information.
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In the May 15, 2014, edition of the journal Nature, Floyd Romesberg’s chemistry lab at San Diego’s Scripps Research Institute published a paper titled “A Semi-Synthetic Organism with an Expanded Genetic Alphabet.
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Corn Wars The ability to develop and then maintain ownership of crop technologies is a strategic advantage for companies—and countries. —Brian Bergstein, executive editor
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If your users’ devices know where they are in the world – the place that they’re at, or the objects they’re near – then your app can adapt or deliver helpful information when it matters most.
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A New York company has figured out how to give mice the virus that causes Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), and also how to prevent the disease and effectively treat the infected mice.
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With the Thursday launch of its AncestryHealth website, Ancestry continues to play Microsoft to 23andMe’s Apple. It may not be as innovative in the burgeoning field of consumer genetics, but it’s an able competitor nonetheless.
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The earlier Alzheimer’s disease is treated, the better. Maybe even before symptoms arise. That’s the idea behind experimental drugs designed to remove plaques from the brain and prevent cognitive changes.
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New research proves that two heads are indeed better than one, at least at performing certain simple computational tasks.
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LAUREL, Md. — The first close-up image of Pluto has revealed mountains as tall as the Rockies, and an absence of craters — discoveries that, to their delight, baffled scientists working on NASA’s New Horizons mission and provided punctuation for a journey nine and a half years in the making.
http://nyti.ms/1DiJblm
The case that Will Zell slides onto his iPhone doesn’t look that unusual, but it’s doing something pretty out of the ordinary: capturing some of the radio waves that the phone transmits when connecting to cell-phone towers and Wi-Fi routers, converting them to electricity, and feeding that power
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No one has ever accused John Kerry of being smart. His schtick is speaking slow and sounding profound, a defense mechanism he developed early in life to mask a room temperature IQ and a lackwit’s infinite credulity. These talents made him the perfect point man for Obama’s Iran nuclear negotiations.
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In a stunning display of moral cowardice, President Obama struck a nuclear deal with Iran that leaves four U.S. citizens, including American Pastor Saeed Abedini, imprisoned in Iran. They’ve been abandoned. And for what?
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Minecraft was used to teach a virtual agent what steps to exclude when trying to put a gold block in a furnace.
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In recent months, artificial-intelligence researchers have made giant strides in matching human performance in all kind of tasks that had, until recently, been thought of as almost impossible for computers. Things like face and object recognition, for example.
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glad to see someone taking Frank Herbert seriously, but hey, he’s not saying this is Utopia! and definitely NOT something we should aspire to become! if you could notice beyond the surface and beyond the obvious, it is a deliberate rant on what keeps us humans morally inept for thousands of years, and what might happen to us 10,000 from now if we continue to live with our WRONG assumptions,…View On WordPress
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this is a sad end to an era of #GoogleWave and web2.0 mania, when everything was mashable, turned out NOT everything was worth mashing up
I’ve never seen a word describe Dean and Cas’ relationship so well
Shoutout to the bisexuals and pansexuals, to the genderqueer and trans folk who will be completely erased from the media’s coverage of the marriage equality decision in the United States, even if it means that you will be able to marry your partner when you couldn’t before. You don’t deserve to be erased from something you want to celebrate.
Shoutout to the folks for whom this decision does basically nothing. Shoutout to the trans women of color who experience incredibly high rates of violence and who will probably face the brunt of the backlash to the decision from straight people. We will not ignore you. We will not silence you. We will not forget you.
The movement for equality is FAR from over. Celebrate if you want to celebrate, but listen to the voices of those who are not celebrating.
Title: Under The Falling Skies
Summary:
“So, Dean.” The king clears his throat, looking at the barbarian who’s eating a chicken’s leg and scratching his belly with a contented face.
“To end this conflict, I am offering you one of my daughters in marriage, so we can become allies and good friends. Choose whichever you want.” The king gestures to his three daughters, all maidens of rare beauty.
Dean belches loudly and pats his belly, causing loud laughter among his warriors. He takes a good look at the princesses, shifting his gaze from one to the other.
“I appreciate your offer, King Uldred, and I will accept it. Though I don’t want any of your daughters.” Dean grins widely.
The king frowns. “I don’t understand.”
“I want him.” Dean points at the young prince with his gnawed chicken’s leg. “I’ll have Castiel.”
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Excerpt from chapter 33
As it turns out Dean is there, sitting at the table and looking a little bored as he spins a spoon in his hand. He flinches when the doors of the chamber close loudly and a slightly frowning Castiel walks in.
“Oh, you came. Good,” Dean greets the prince. “I was beginning to think that you changed your mind and would not come.”
“And what if I did?” Castiel asks sharply. “Would you drag me out?” he blurts out before he has time to consider his words.
To Dean’s honor he decides to ignore the icy cold tone in the prince’s voice.
“You look good,” he decides to compliment Castiel’s appearance.
The brunet squirms under the barbarian’s burning gaze, which seems to mentally undress him. The tip of Dean’s tongue flicks out, instinctively swiping over his bottom lip. Castiel feels how his face starts flushing and burning as his captor’s eyes begin to darken from unconcealed lust.
“Did you call me just so I could stand in the middle of the hall while you undress me with your eyes?” Castiel inquires dryly.
Mohamed Lekleti (Moroccan, b. 1965, Taza, Morocco) - Untitled Drawings: Mixed Media on Canvas
Historically, cats were considered to be desirable pets due to the fact that they were extremely willing to help with housework. However, after the advent of technology, this all changed. Cats found that it was now too dangerous for them to help with housework, and instead now choose to watch lazily as their humans do it for them. Here we have a cat’s first interaction with a vacuum cleaner, and we see his expression as he realizes helping out is just not worth it.
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I don’t know what is funnier about Jared’s house on The French Mistake…
The pics of him and Gen by the tanning bed…
The fact that right next to their (actual) wedding picture is a picture of the alpaca
..or the giant pic of him dressed like a cowboy on a horse
I think it would have to be this one ^^
Leonard in Slow Motion from Peter Livolsi on Vimeo.
Leonard (Martin Starr - “Freaks and Geeks”, “Silicon Valley”) exists in slow motion but lives in a regular speed world. When he discovers his office crush is getting transferred to Florida, Leonard decides he must somehow become regular speed to win her heart before she leaves town for good. (9 min)
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