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19,000 Hours of Apollo 11 Audio Recordings

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Robotic Percussive Sculpture Performance on Aug 30 at @knockdowncenter in Queens, NYC

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Light-Controlled Polymers Can Switch Between Sturdy and Soft

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NEW GUIDE : Make It Sense #AdafruitLearningSystem

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NEW GUIDE: Circuit Playground Express Treasure Hunt #AdafruitLearningSystem

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This Installation is a Blank Canvas Inviting the Visitors to Express Themselves

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Python on microcontrollers newsletter – sign up now @adafruit #circuitpython

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Join the Adafruit community on Discord! @discordapp @adafruit #discord

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DIY Synth Made of a 1981 Casio keyboard, AM Radio, Stompboxes, and More #MusicMonday

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Intelli-bouy is a Solar- and Feathered-Powered PVC Bouy for Measuring Turbidity, pH, and Dissolved Oxygen – also with GPS | #oceans #ecology

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What Knitting Can Teach You About Math

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Play Robot Odyssey – a 1984 Computer Game

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“Twitter Can Be Terrifying”: A WhatsApp Conversation Between Joanna Walsh and Lauren Elkin

THE FOLLOWING CONVERSATION between Joanna Walsh, the author of Break.up (2018), and Lauren Elkin, the author of Flâneuse: Women Walk the City (2017), took place on WhatsApp in May 2018, and all spelling and other mistakes have been preserved. ¤ [15:08, 5/11/2018] Joanna Walsh: Nearly back. Harriet just reminded me today is my US publication date. I’d forgotten. Today I get published by semiotext(e)! [15:08, 5/11/2018] Lauren Elkin: Hooray! [15:08, 5/11/2018] Lauren Elkin: Mazel tov! [15:21, 5/11/2018] Joanna Walsh: just got back… might make a coffee… wonder if there’s any ice for it. terrible tin whistle player outside Shakespeare & co but I can’t bear not to have the windows open. Would you prefer to do this on Whatsapp or email. This feels far better to me, but no good if you can’t type easily on it. [15:22, 5/11/2018] Lauren Elkin: Whatsapp is fine but I’ll hook it up to my computer [15:25, 5/11/2018] Joanna Walsh: ok cool, will wait for it [15:29, 5/11/2018] Lauren ...

The Hat: Remembering Jonathan Gold

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Photograph of Jonas Never with his Jonathan Gold mural at  Margo’s Santa Monica . ¤ WHEN YOU WALK into The Hat, the one in Temple City on the corner of Rosemead Boulevard and Broadway, there on the wood-paneled wall, above the thermostat and the no-smoking sign, you will find a framed article from the Los Angeles Times . Titled “Big Dippers,” and definitively illustrating — if not endorsing — pastrami-dip sandwiches, the sort of sandwich that might be blasphemous to devotees of Langer’s or Canter’s or Jerry’s Deli, the article is written by Jonathan Gold and dates from 1992. It is adjacent to another frame, this one capturing a nighttime scene, circa 1980, in front of the original Hat location at the corner of Garfield Avenue and Valley Boulevard. This second frame always appears to me like a screenshot captured straight from my childhood, the original Hat a block away from the apartment that holds my earliest memories of my grandmother — the second-floor view of the southbound t...

Without Exception: On the Ordinariness of Violence

THIS IS THE 21st in a series of dialogues with artists, writers, and critical thinkers on the question of violence. This conversation is with Lauren Berlant, who teaches at the University of Chicago. Her most recent books are Sex, or the Unbearable  (with Lee Edelman, 2013), Desire/Love  (2012), and Cruel Optimism (2011). She is currently working on affects like inconvenience and humorlessness, and in 2019 will publish The Hundreds (Duke University Press), co-written with the anthropologist Kathleen Stewart. ¤ BRAD EVANS: I’d like to begin this discussion with a rather generic question on the concept of “violence.” What do you understand by the term? And how might we think of its relevance in the contemporary climate where we are witness almost on a daily basis to declarations and liberation of prejudice in the so-called “mainstream”? LAUREN BERLANT: Politics is a war of attrition. In the contemporary moment from so many positions of structural privilege and vulnerab...

The Degradations of Empire

AT THE BEGINNING of Abir Mukherjee’s A Necessary Evil , the second installment in his historical crime series, narrator Captain Sam Wyndham and his Indian colleague Sergeant “Surrender-Not” Banerjee are fresh off the politically explosive unraveling of a British senior official’s murder in 1919 Calcutta ( A Rising Man ). Without a moment’s respite, they dispatch themselves to the remote and wealthy kingdom of Sambalpore to investigate another murder — this time, the assassination of Prince Adhir, heir to the Maharaja’s throne. Wyndham and Banerjee arrive at the Sambalpore train station and are promptly led out of their transport to the court residency, “a waiting Austin that looked like it might have been the oldest car in India,” Wyndham observes. “A faded Union Jack hung limply from a metal rod on the bonnet. A native driver stood beside it, polishing the headlights with a grimy rag.” Such potent object lessons in the degradations of empire are all over Mukherjee’s novels, if you kn...

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Peach, Goat Cheese & Balsamic Pizza

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Vertical video sheds its black bars on YouTube, Android app adds dark mode

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Fortnite on Android may drive its battle bus past Google’s 30% cut

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A new report questions “viability” of plan to privatize the space station

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Vaccine-refusing community drove outbreak that cost $395K, sickened babies

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20 states take aim at 3D gun company, sue to get files off the Internet

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Trump seems to think F-35 is “literally invisible” in flight

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Hackers find creative way to steal $7.7 million without being detected

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How Steve Jobs and Bill Gates defined a decade of tech—according to CNN’s The 2000s

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Google Pixel 3 rumors: More pictures leak, hints of smart display dock surface

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Click on this iOS phishing scam and you’ll be connected to “Apple Care”

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Gran Turismo Sport, revisited: More tracks, more cars, more everything

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Pedestrians are a hard problem for self-driving cars—here’s one solution

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Amazon: Cops should set confidence level on facial recognition to 99%

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A Migrant Boy Rejoins His Mother, but He’s Not the Same

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If an N.B.A. Workout Isn’t on Instagram, Does it Even Count?

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US Trailer for Creative, Erotic, Gender-Fluid Adventure 'The Wild Boys'

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Lassie Got Help, Would Your Dog?

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After Doctors Cut Their Opioids, Patients Turn to a Risky Treatment for Back Pain

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Brexit, Russia, Mars: Your Tuesday Briefing

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What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Please Like Me’ and ‘Frontline’

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Ceramics Aren’t Enough. Bring on the Spaceships, Italian Town Says.

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Philippine Bombing Kills 10, Showing Insurgents Remain a Problem

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How Trump Allies Shifted Their Defense as Evidence of Contacts With Russians Grew

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Former FEMA Official Accused of Sexual Misconduct That Spanned Years

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Quotation of the Day: Why Global Greening Isn’t as Great as It Sounds

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Review: In a New Orleans ‘House,’ Wealthy Women Are Haunted by Slavery’s Ghosts

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With Trades, Yankees Pitching Staff Remains a Work in Progress

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Corrections: July 31, 2018

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The Third-Party Option

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New York City Is Thriving. Why Is Transport Such a Nightmare?

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Four People, Including a 5-Year-Old Boy, Are Shot and Killed in Queens

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Murder Suspect Used Dating Apps to Prey on Women, Police Say

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More to Come

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Bob Woodward’s New Book Will Detail ‘Harrowing Life’ Inside Trump White House

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North Korea 'working on new missiles', US officials say

US intelligence leaks suggest the North may be building ballistic missiles, despite recent pledges. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2LC8cHo

US airport security's 'Quiet Skies' programme tracks passengers

The programme secretly targets people who exhibit odd behaviour such as excessive sweating. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2LA1QbI

France shocked by video of woman being slapped by harasser

A student speaks out after CCTV shows a man slapping her for objecting to abuse in a Paris street. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2Ou3462

IS claims fatal Tajik attack on foreign cyclists

Two Americans, a Swiss and a Dutch citizen died after being struck by a car on Sunday. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2M3BTxg

Trump says ready to meet Iran's Rouhani

"If they want to meet, we'll meet," the US president says. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2K5AV1L

Italy earthquake 'hero dog' found dead

The owner of Kaos, which rescued people in 2016, says the animal was poisoned. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2viZbrD

Lombok earthquake: More than 500 hikers evacuated from Mt Rinjani

More than 500 hikers were stranded on Indonesia's Mt Rinjani when a deadly quake triggered landslides. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2Kbwanp

Russia World Cup: Pussy Riot protesters detained on leaving jail

The activists served 15 days for storming on to the pitch during the World Cup final in Russia. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2mSFrax

Backpackers attacked with shovel in Australian bush

One backpacker was rammed with a four-wheel-drive before being attacked with a shovel, police say. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2Ow0tZk

Uber halts development of self-driving trucks

The ride-hailing firm says it will now focus solely on the development of self-driving cars. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2NSiW0Q

James Gunn: Guardians of the Galaxy cast back fired director

Chris Pratt says that James Gunn "is a good man" despite his "inappropriate jokes from years ago". from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2NTUVXy

Largest king penguin colony shrinks 90% in 30 years

The world's largest colony, in the Indian Ocean, has shrunk 90% over 30 years, research suggests. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2OufYkk

The battle to stop ex-IS fighters reaching Europe

The BBC's Quentin Sommerville follows the teams trying to trace ex-IS fighters who have fled Syria. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2NWJOwL

Bruce Beach has built a 10,000 sq ft nuclear bunker

At 10,000 sq ft, Ark Two is one of Canada's largest nuclear fallout shelters. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2M1xLh7

Brexit and your holiday: Five things that could change

How the UK leaving the EU could impact things like flights, visas and mobile roaming. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2M55giP

World-famous aerialist on the keys to her success

Christine Van Loo, a seven-time US national acro-gymnastics champion, explains how she got to the top of her game. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2Kb7MCm

Nailing it: How the National Gallery of Ireland is taking the masters to the masses

The National Gallery of Ireland is teaming up with a Dublin based nail bar to recreate the greats in 'minicure' form. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2OueHK3

Canadian puddle splash van driver loses job

Employer confirms driver has been sacked after his anti-social behaviour is caught on dashcam. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2AkvFYi

Russian ministry spokeswoman turns songwriter

Foreign Ministry's Maria Zakharova pens lyrics for popular Russian singer. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2LwsZfz

Intrepid French hunt for sunken warships Cordelière and Regent

The Regent and Cordelière burned together and are now the focus of a French explorer's mission. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2OvguyM

The fight to end silence on fashion's waste problem

We asked major labels if they destroyed their excess stock. They weren't all forthcoming. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2uZTZK0

Will EU healthcare for tourists survive Brexit?

Will you be able to use the European Health Insurance Card when the UK leaves the EU? from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2NY5991

Would you quote Rick Astley in your out-of-office?

Not everyone sticks to the standard out-of-office reply - we take a look at the more unusual ones. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2M4q3D2

Letter from Africa: How bruised is President Buhari by defections?

Journalist Mannir Dan Ali considers the Nigerian president's chances of re-election after the loss of key allies. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2AppbHX

Germany gripped by #MeTwo racism debate

Thousands of tweets document racism in German schools, housing and jobs. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2OrUK6N

Bomb in van kills 11 at checkpoint in Philippine south: army

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