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the business of life

Are Startups Helping or Hurting? - The Business of Life (Episode 11)
A new generation of tech companies have taken over the media spotlight. But are they putting a new spin on classic ideas? And are they really changing the way we live, or merely helping the one-percent feel a bit more like the .01 percent?
VICE News
9.24.15
News

Refugees, Just Like Romanians, Don't Want to Be In Romania
Many Romanians have no problem with refugees coming to their towns because none of them want to stay. "They want to live in Sweden and Germany anyway," one said.
Ioana Moldoveanu
9.24.15
News

Calling Bullshit on the Internet's Islamophobic Memes
Words aren't necessarily true just because they're superimposed over an image.
Mike Pearl
9.24.15
americas

Pope Politely Sticks It to Congress in Historic Speech
Congress cheered, cried, and experienced some pretty dramatic mood-swings as Pope Francis pontificated on a potpourri of sticky issues, including climate change, abortion, and the death penalty.
Liz Fields
9.24.15
FIGHTLAND

The Kooky Antics Of "The King of the Gypsies" Continue
Love him or hate him, Wladimir Klitschko's next opponent, Tyson Fury, sure knows how to make an impression when it comes to stirring controversy in the lead up to his fights.
Jake Hughes
9.24.15
Festival Season!

Groovefest Is Turning the Dominican Republic Into the Next Great Dance Destination
The growing festival is couched in a rather enticing concept: an all-inclusive Caribbean getaway soundtracked by techno and house heavyweights.
Michelle Lhooq
9.24.15
death

Want to Know When You’re Gonna Die?
Watch an animated graph of your life expectancy over time.
Rachel Pick
9.24.15
News

Meet JPay, the Company that Controls Prisoners' Access to Technology
Video phone kiosks have been replacing real-life visitation in American jails and prisons—sometimes altogether.
Beryl Lipton, Muckrock
9.24.15
Canadian election

Quebec Separatism Isn't Dead — But It's Fighting for Relevance
As the Canadian campaign has worn on the crowds have thinned and the rhetoric has thickened for the Bloc Quebecois, a separatist party that was virtually wiped out in the last federal election.
Jake Bleiberg
9.24.15
Paris

A Microscopic Look at the City of Light
A self-described stereoscopic 3D "scientific and dreamlike documentary" like none you've seen before.
Nathaniel Ainley
9.24.15
middle east

Syria Uses Russian Jets To Strike the Islamic State at Besieged Airbase
Ground attacks accompanied the airstrikes, which began earlier this week near the Kweiris Air Base in the eastern part of Aleppo province, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
VICE News
9.24.15
Open Water

Young Migrant Is Killed By Train Near Channel Tunnel Entrance In France
The teen is the 11th person to have died near the tunnel entrance since June.
Pierre Longeray
9.24.15
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