Click:plug valve supplier Improved restrictions on gun control will not happen today. Democrats and Republicans voted this afternoon on four measures meant to expand background checks for gun buyers and restrict gun sales to people on terror watch lists, but all of them fell short of the 60 votes necessary for passage. The two measures introduced …
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The solar system is a pretty exclusive club—fewer than 10 planets have ever been admitted to the collection of celestial bodies that make up Earth’s little neck of the galactic woods. Famously, in 2006 the most recently discovered member—sweet, icy little Pluto—was controversially demoted from the roster and downgraded to mere “dwarf planet,” leaving us …
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When an unarmed deaf man named Daniel Kevin Harris was killed by a state trooper near his Charlotte, North Carolina home last Thursday, his brother claimed the tragedy was just the latest in a series of “misunderstandings that led to him being afraid of the police.” Dealing with law enforcement can be an intimidating experience under even the best of circumstances. For …
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Bill Gates has a bit of egg on his face—after the Microsoft mogul pledged 100,000 chickens to a group of impoverished countries, one of the recipients cried foul. (fowl?) “He does not know Bolivia’s reality to think we are living 500 years ago, in the middle of the jungle not knowing how to produce,” César …
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Global warming naysayers may start changing their tune as soon as they get a glimpse at a few recent photos from the arctic. Images of bright blue, “supraglacial” lakes reveal hot spots along the surface of East Antarctica’s Langhovde Glacier. That’s right, the coldest place on Earth is heating up, and its once-stable ice sheets are rapidly …
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In recent years, knitting has earned itself a twee reputation as the hobby of choice for a certain subset of young urban professionals. You know the ones—they look a lot like New Girl’s Jessica Day, and they don’t find the idea of purchasing Hipster brand yarn embarrassing in the slightest. But the eye-popping new documentary Yarn—which made its debut …
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It’s been two days since BootyGate, otherwise known as that time Blake Lively posted a Gram from the Cannes Film Festival in which she shouted out her curvaceous ass with some playfully/carelessly chosen song lyrics as the caption. If you’ve been avoiding the news, it’s time to submit to the zeitgeist. Lively put up a …
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They say one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, but we have a feeling the fish would disagree. In early June, researchers from the University of Aberdeen revealed their truly astonishing findings on what is lurking in some of the deepest and most remote areas of the world’s oceans. Beyond the mystifying jellyfish and monster-like, bus-sized squid living …
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If you watched the 42nd season premiere of “Saturday Night Live” over the weekend—even just the first few minutes of it—then you likely saw the most important political sketch of the year. In a satirical rehash of the first presidential debate, a wild-eyed Hillary Clinton (played by Kate McKinnon) goes head-to-head with an overly bronzed Donald Trump …
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Alec Baldwin is no stranger to playing overconfident and under-informed blowhards. That was his whole deal for several seasons as co-star of 30 Rock. And the Academy Award-nominated actor didn’t disappoint in his return to NBC last night, helping open the new season of “Saturday Night Live” with a hilarious take of last week’s first …
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