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Is Earth in Danger Now That Australia Can't Track Comets?
The only place in the Southern Hemisphere that monitored comets and asteroids just got closed down due to a lack of funding. Does that put the planet at risk?
Tom Breakwell
10.22.14
Culture

Slick 'Corporate Responsibility' Reports Are Actually Fooling Investors
Essentially, they’re manipulative bullshit.
Jordan Pearson
10.22.14
Europe

Riot Police Break Up Clash Between Migrants in France
Police in the northern French port of Calais were forced to break up a brawl that saw Ethiopians and Eritreans charging at one another wielding sticks and hurling stones.
Virgile Dall’Armellina
10.22.14
Interviews

Deerhoof: 20 Years In and Still Blowing up Amps
The bonkers SF-based band return with their thirteenth album which they recorded in a basement in just 10 days.
Danielle Goldstein
10.22.14
disease

Drones Create Real-Time Maps of How Diseases Spread
Epidemiologists are using drone data to track malaria from mosquitos to monkeys to humans.
Victoria Turk
10.22.14
Art

We Talked To Chuck Close About Curating, Haiti, and "FIERCE CREATIVITY"
The Creators Project spoke to the master artist about his new co-curated benefit show with Jessica Craig-Martin.
Emerson Rosenthal
10.22.14
Film

The Apocalypse Is Finally Bigger Than Football
Thank Ebola and late capitalism.
Brian Merchant
10.22.14
Crime

Oscar Pistorius Didn't Get Away With Murder, But He Did Get Off Easy
What is it about elite athletes that lets them get away so easily, even when they're violent?
Smriti Sinha
10.22.14
Features

Joyful Noise: Zydeco Essentials
Getting to the roots of roots music.
Kim Kelly
10.22.14
Premieres

Premiere: Rag 'N' Bone Man - "Hell Yeah" (Feat Vince Staples)
Man of the moment Vince Staples spits some bars over Rag 'N' Bone Man's ash-ridden, soulful foundation.
10.22.14
The Sun

How to Predict Solar Storms
French physicists have discovered the telltale calm before a solar eruption.
Becky Ferreira
10.22.14
middle east

UN Accuses Islamic State of Attempted Genocide as Fighters Renew Assault on Iraq's Yazidis
Alarm raised over the group's latest advance on Mount Sinjar, where thousands of Yazidis were stranded after IS attacks in August.
John Beck
10.22.14
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