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Ole Miss Fan Freaks Out, Kyle Orton Packs A Lipper, And The GIFs You Missed
Welcome back to the work week. It sucks, but we've got everything you missed from the weekend, so come on in and avoid some work.
Sean Newell
12.1.14
News

Texas Plans to Execute a Paranoid Schizophrenic Man This Wednesday
Scott Panetti is clearly insane, but Texas officials seem determined to execute him even as his lawyers are making a last-ditch effort to stop the state.
Katie Halper
12.1.14
Football

The Unbeautiful Game: Cleveland, Buffalo, and the Dismal NFL
The Bills and Browns played a sad football game on Sunday, but perhaps it's not their fault the NFL invites mediocrity.
Pete Beatty
12.1.14
International Women's Day 2016

Hayley Williams Wrote the Book on Being a Female Celebrity
She never expected to be an international role model, but she handled it with aplomb just like she does everything else.
Emma Garland
12.1.14
VICE vs Video games

The Best Video Games of 2014 Are Exactly the Same as Last Year
'Grand Theft Auto V' and 'The Last of Us,' both dug up from the previous gen, are the only 10/10 experiences available to 2014's gamers.
Mike Diver
12.1.14
Photos

A Photo Tour of Nuclear Limbo
What a strange life this must be.
Michael Byrne
12.1.14
nasa

Designing Magnetometers for Space Missions Is Really Hard
Space physicist Michele Dougherty explains what it's like to be the principal investigator for instruments on two major planetary missions.
Victoria Turk
12.1.14
Germany

Germany's Absurd New PED Law and Why It Won't Fix Anything
Germany, like some other countries, is looking to jail athletes for using PEDs. This is both wrong and utterly useless.
Jack Moore
12.1.14
fans

The Buffalo Sabres Are Terrible, But Are They Tanking?
Rooting for a team that may or may not be tanking is a miserable experience, but Sabres fans are holding out hope while the team struggles to get by.
Joshua Kloke
12.1.14
asia & pacific

Activists at India's Pride Parade Hope Narendra Modi's Government Will Repeal Gay Sex Ban
The country's Supreme Court reinstated the colonial-era law, which had been scrapped by a lower court, after ruling that only parliament could revoke it.
Meredith Hoffman
12.1.14
Culture

This Trippy Video Game Lets You Time Travel Using Cassette Tapes
In "Small Radios Big Televisions," analog tapes are your DeLorean.
Zack Kotzer
12.1.14
Features

Here's Some Proof The BBC Sound of Poll Predicts Neither Critical Or Commercial Success
The longlist for 2015 has been released, but what’s rarely discussed is how good the music from the artists featured on it actually is.
sam wolfson
12.1.14
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