Broncos cheerleader performed as T-Rex for Halloween

Halloween is Monday, so Broncos cheerleaders wore unique costumes on Sunday when Denver hosted the Chargers. One of them, Romi, performed as a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Amazingly, she was able to perform …
Read more: http://broncoswire.usatoday.com/2016/10/30/denver-broncos-cheerleader-dinosaur/?source=Snapzu

Help us! Women in Indian mill pen letter describing sexual abuse at work

A letter from six women at a spinning mill in southern India, describing the sexual harassment they face at work and asking for help, exposes the widespread exploitation of women in the multi-billion-dollar textile industry, campaigners said. “He forces himself on us, constantly hugging us and squeezing our breasts,” the women write, describing the behavior of their male supervisor. “Any worker who resists his advances loses part of her salary. We need this job and don’t know who to talk to about the abuse we face everyday. Please help us.”
Read more: http://news.sitibe.com/help-us-women-indian-mill-pen-letter-describing-abuse-work?source=Snapzu

Panic! At The Disco: Emperor's New Clothes [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

Panic! At The Disco's official video for 'Emperor's New Clothes.'
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12 Chilling Books to Read for Halloween

Gabrielle Bellot goes beyond the standards to unearth real terror.
Read more: http://lithub.com/12-chilling-books-to-read-for-halloween/?source=Snapzu

“Good men are God in the flesh”

“[I]n an era marked by the rise of Lynch Law, across the U.S. American South, restrictions on voter rights, and a turn away from African American rights across the nation, Frederick Douglass traveled widely, and used his podium to argue that any person, notwithstanding physical attributes, class, or caste, could attain virtue…” By Daniel Joslyn.
Read more: https://jhiblog.org/2016/10/17/good-men-are-god-in-the-flesh-frederick-douglass-virtue-philosopher/?source=Snapzu

Iraq's new atheism in the shadow of Islamic State

Shaho is 29, a government employee. He hunches over some tea, chain-smoking throughout our three hours together. He is this group's founder, and his natural confidence makes him something of a spokesman, too. Several years ago, stuck between the marauding jihadism of IS and the incompetency of the Iraqi government, he set up this symposium, and named it "Logic". The group is an intellectual refuge for Iraq's atheists and secularists, a people denied any official existence by the country's government, and holders of a death sentence courtesy of the Islamic State group.
Read more: https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/indepth/2016/10/31/iraqs-new-atheism-in-the-shadow-of-islamic-state?source=Snapzu

The Dark Energy of a Theoretical Physicist

For Lisa Randall, science is the best way to deal with the foolishness of everyday life. By Nell Freudenberger.
Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/the-dark-energy-of-a-theoretical-physicist?mbid=social_facebook?source=Snapzu

School Segregation: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Public schools are increasingly divided by race and class. John Oliver discusses the troubling trend towards school resegregation.
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Mark Twain Has a Historic Haunted Mansion That Offers Spooky Ghost Tours

Iconic American author Mark Twain, best known for his stories about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, has more than just books as a claim to fame. A lesser-known aspect of Twain is that his former residence is haunted. By Sara Barnes.
Read more: http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/mark-twain-house-ghost-tour?context=featured?source=Snapzu

Think Travis Rice’s snowboarding is insane? Try filming it

Digital Trends spoke with Travis Rice and cinematographer Greg Wheeler about the challenges, tech, and passion that went into making ‘The Fourth Phase.’
Read more: http://www.digitaltrends.com/photography/the-fourth-phase-pushes-travis-rices-limits/?source=Snapzu

The rise and fall of Halloween trick-or-treating

Is trick-or-treat over?
Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-no-more-trick-treat-ent-1031-20161028-column.html?source=Snapzu

The Price of Gold

Over a period of 20 days, Thom Pierce travelled around South Africa's Eastern Cape, into Lesotho and up to Johannesburg to find and photograph the miners, and widows, suffering from silicosis and pulmonary tuberculosis as a result of working in the gold mines.
Read more: http://thompierce.com/tpog/?source=Snapzu

The Man in the Woods by Shirley Jackson

“Christopher’s cat watched, purring, until Aunt Cissy disappeared into the kitchen alcove again and came back carrying the trussed carcass of what seemed to Christopher to be a wild pig.”
Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/04/28/the-man-in-the-woods?source=Snapzu

Feel Different: Breaking Your Cell Phone’s Hold

Unreliable rewards trap us into addictive cell phone use, but they can also get us out. By David Antonio Perezcassar.
Read more: http://nautil.us/issue/41/selection/feel-different-breaking-your-cell-phones-hold?source=Snapzu

Dribbling in the Dark

What it’s like to be 14 in a new school, a new city away from home—and the wrong ethnicity in a divided country. By Andrew W. Jones.
Read more: http://www.themorningnews.org/article/dribbling-in-the-dark?source=Snapzu

Borrow a sewing machine? Sacramento Public Library to start loaning more than books

The Library of Things is part of an ongoing push by the Sacramento Public Library system and libraries around the country to expand and diversify their role beyond book borrowing. By Ellen Garrison.
Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/education/article8920145.html?source=Snapzu

Kierkegaard’s Rebellion

Kierkegaard is widely considered the most important religious thinker of the modern age. This is because he dramatized with special intensity the conflict between religion and secular reason, between private faith and the public world, and he went so far as to entertain the thought that a genuine reconciliation between them is impossible. By Peter E. Gordon.
Read more: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/11/10/kierkegaards-rebellion/?source=Snapzu

Scrap Metal Sculptures by John Lopez

South Dakota-based artist John Lopez welds monumental sculptures by re-purposing scrap iron collected from ranches.
Read more: http://www.faithistorment.com/2016/10/scrap-metal-sculptures-by-john-lopez.html#more?source=Snapzu

Beautiful Chemical Reactions

Eight types of beautiful chemical reactions are presented in this short video.
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The mysterious extra holes at the top of you shoes explained

How to Prevent Running Shoe Blisters With a “Heel Lock” or “Lace Lock”
Read more: http://snapzu.com/Appaloosa/the-mysterious-extra-holes-at-the-top-of-you-shoes-explained?source=Snapzu

Michael Dirda’s Halloween book picks

A collector’s edition of ‘The Shining,’ ‘Haunted Castles: The Complete Gothic Stories,’ and many more.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/michael-dirdas-halloween-book-picks/2016/10/19/47f5c8b8-922b-11e6-9c52-0b10449e33c4_story.html?source=Snapzu

The e-waste mountains - in pictures

Sustainable development goal target 12.5 is to reduce waste, but with a planet increasingly dependent on technology, is that even possible? Kai Loeffelbein’s photographs of e-waste recycling in Guiyu, southern China show what happens to discarded computers
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/gallery/2016/oct/18/the-e-waste-reduce-waste-old-technology-mountains-in-pictures?source=Snapzu

Jesus's tomb opened for first time in centuries

Preservation experts have opened for the first time in at least two centuries what Christians believe is Jesus's tomb inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Some of the historic work was witnessed by AFP photographer Gali Tibbon who captured images of the site believed to contain the rock upon which Jesus was laid in around 33 AD as it was uncovered as part of ongoing restoration at the site.
Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/jesuss-tomb-opened-first-time-centuries-192734029.html?source=Snapzu

Ministers press ahead with controversial internet tap plan

The cabinet is pressing ahead with controversial legislation to give the security service much wider powers to tap phones and internet traffic, despite opposition from the Council of State. The Council of State, which is the government’s most senior advisory body, said that the legislation should not be submitted to parliament in its present form. Currently the security services are only allowed to tap into satellite communications and specific internet connections and ministers argue that they must have wider access to internet traffic to monitor terrorists more effectively.
Read more: http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2016/10/dutch-press-ahead-with-controversial-internet-tapping-plan/?source=Snapzu

These 11 YouTubers with disabilities will make you laugh, think and learn

Getting candid on camera.
Read more: http://mashable.com/2016/10/29/youtube-disability/?utm_cid=hp-h-1#lZ3E0tmqjqq3?source=Snapzu

Paper Trails: Rolled Newspaper Animal Sculptures by Chie Hitotsuyama

In 2007, artist Chie Hitotsuyama took an illustration job with an NGO and traveled to Africa. There she encountered a rhino that had been rescued from poachers who prey on the beautiful animal only for its tusk, which to this day, are bought and sold for high prices. “I still remember the kindness in that Rhino’s eyes,” she says, speaking about the encounter, which inspired her to begin making animal-themed artwork.
Read more: http://www.spoon-tamago.com/2016/10/24/paper-trails-rolled-newspaper-animal-sculptures-by-chie-hitotsuyama/#more-38576?source=Snapzu

Inside the New York Public Library's Last, Secret Apartments

There used to be parties in the apartments on the top floors of New York City's branch libraries. On other nights, when the libraries were closed, the kids who lived there might sit reading alone among the books or roll around on the wooden library carts—if they weren't dusting the shelves or shoveling coal. Their hopscotch courts were on the roof. A cat might sneak down the stairs to investigate the library patrons.
Read more: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/inside-the-new-york-public-librarys-last-secret-apartments?source=Snapzu

This Map of the World Just Won Japan’s Prestigious Design Award

The 2016 Good Design Award results were announced recently with awards going to over 1000 entries in several different categories. But the coveted Grand Award of Japan's most well-known design award, given to just 1 entry, was announced today.
Read more: http://www.spoon-tamago.com/2016/10/28/hajime-narukawa-authagraph/?source=Snapzu

The Photographers of 1870s London Who Documented Their Disappearing City

The idea of capturing something in photography before it disappears dates back almost to the dawn of the medium. In 1875, a group called the Society for Photographing Relics of Old London formed in response to the imminent demise of the 17th-century Oxford Arms. Like many coaching inns, the Arms was facing destruction as the city, coming out of the Industrial Revolution, was in a state of major redevelopment. Photographers documented the inn and other soot-stained alleyways, Gothic façades, and rambling wooden structures in glass plate negatives, printed in carbon to make them last.
Read more: http://hyperallergic.com/299912/the-photographers-of-1870s-london-who-documented-their-disappearing-city/?source=Snapzu

The Transporting Promise of 20th-Century Travel Posters

Travel posters from the early to mid-20th century.
Read more: http://hyperallergic.com/333066/the-transporting-promise-of-20th-century-travel-posters/?source=Snapzu

Doubts About the Promised Bounty of Genetically Modified Crops

Higher yields with less pesticides was the sales pitch for genetically modified seeds. But that has not proved to be the outcome in the United States.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/30/business/gmo-promise-falls-short.html?source=Snapzu

Fall

The beautiful colors of fall.
Read more: https://500px.com/photo/180209957/f-a-l-l-by-john-n-jensen?source=Snapzu

Jennifer Maestre Turns Ordinary Pencils Into Otherworldly Sculptures

Inspired by nature, artist Jennifer Maestre creates otherworldly sculptures from hundreds of cut and shaved pencils.
Read more: http://twistedsifter.com/2016/10/pencil-sculptures-by-jennifer-maestre/?source=Snapzu

A Floating, Urban Forest Where the Food Is Free

Conceived of by artist Mary Mattingly, “Swale” models what New York City might look like if food were considered not only an economic good, but a public one.
Read more: http://hyperallergic.com/333553/a-floating-urban-forest-where-the-food-is-free/?source=Snapzu

Star Trek’s Feminist Statement: Believe Women

Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before. By Mirah Curzer.
Read more: https://medium.com/@mirahcurzer/the-radical-feminism-of-believing-women-fd02496e1df#.xf0by8211?source=Snapzu

It’s time to get your skates on if you haven’t planted your spring bulbs

Spring bulbs are a gift to grey days and a welcome to warmer ones, but they have to start life now, says Alys Fowler
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/oct/29/plant-spring-bulbs-alys-fowler-tulips-daffodils-crocus-muscari?source=Snapzu

The Rio You Didn’t Know Existed

Vincent Catala Represents the City Beyond Clichés. Breaking News: Rio de Janeiro is not all sun, parties and samba.
Read more: http://fotoroom.co/rio-rivage-interieur-vincent-catala/?source=Snapzu

Mount Tamalpais Fog Timelapse 4K

Danny MacRostie
Read more: http://snapzu.com/AdelleChattre/mount-tamalpais-fog-timelapse-4k?source=Snapzu

Photographer captures what kittens look like mid-pounce

In his newest project, entitled Pounce, photographer Seth Casteel shows us the goofy faces kittens make mid-pounce. Disclaimer: lots of ‘aww-ing’ up ahead.
Read more: http://petapixel.com/2016/10/19/playful-portraits-kittens-mid-pounce/?source=Snapzu

What’s A Woggin? A Bird, a Word, and a Linguistic Mystery

Whalers wrote about woggins all the time. What in the world were they?
Read more: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/whats-a-woggin-a-bird-a-word-and-a-linguistic-mystery?source=Snapzu

Tolkien’s Establishment

“In our age of celebrity and political messiahs, Tolkien and Catholic theology are useful reminders that no human should be worshipped, that sensibility should be tied to Establishment, and that Establishment itself should defer to an objective moral order.” By Graham McAleer.
Read more: http://www.libertylawsite.org/2016/10/28/tolkiens-establishment/?source=Snapzu

Cannabis may enhance night vision

New research shows that the drug makes cells in the retina more sensitive to light.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/science/neurophilosophy/2016/oct/27/cannabis-many-enhance-night-vision?source=Snapzu

The plight of young scientists

A special issue explores how the research enterprise keeps early-career scientists from pursuing the most important work, and what can be done to help.
Read more: http://www.nature.com/news/the-plight-of-young-scientists-1.20870?source=Snapzu

Happy Halloween, Motherfucker!

It was a nice day for some painting. :-)
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No prayer, no meal: Shelters turning away government food due to new worship rules

Bethesda Mission in Harrisburg does not believe the government should regulate how it worships and gives food to the homeless. So the Christian-based organization and others are refusing to accept food from the federal government. The U.S. Department of Agriculture and other federal agencies published a new regulation in March that bans organizations receiving food from the federal government from requiring people being given food to attend or participate in religious activities. Faith-based organizations are upset about the new rule they say infringes on their ability to worship.
Read more: http://www.pennlive.com/news/2016/10/no_prayer_no_food_shelters_tur.html?source=Snapzu

101 things that have helped you sleep

Many of us struggle with sleep, or lack thereof. Here are 101 things that you have told us help you sleep.
Read more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-29/101-sleep-hacks-that-have-worked-for-you/7974856?source=Snapzu

What did the SD card ever do to Apple?

What you see before you, friends, is Apple’s brand new MacBook Pro, in the silver $1,799 configuration and space gray $1,499 variant without the cool new Touch Bar. Neither of them has an SD card...
Read more: http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/27/13444262/apple-macbook-pro-2016-no-sd-card-slot?source=Snapzu

Yuengling beer backed Trump this week. You can guess the rest.

"Goodbye, Yuengling, and shame on you."
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/10/28/yuengling-beer-backed-trump-this-week-the-rest-was-inevitable/?tid=a_inl?source=Snapzu

The Ideology of the Anti-Gay Movement Is an Ideology of Inconsistency and Hypocrisy

Regardless of the fact that they trip over themselves insisting that their actions and words are not “hatred” or “bigotry”, the anti-gay crusade that calls much of the world home persists in its state of naivety, intolerance, and outright denial of reason and compassion.
Read more: https://thebangladeshihumanist.com/2016/10/27/the-ideology-of-the-anti-gay-movement-is-an-ideology-of-inconsistency-and-hypocrisy/?source=Snapzu

He turned a trailer into a free dental clinic

When Dr. Edwin Smith was a young dentist beginning his career in eastern Kentucky, he encountered many patients with rampant tooth decay. "I saw a lot of patients who hadn't seen a dentist before," said Smith, a Kentucky native. Appalachia has one of the worst dental health problems in the nation. And Kentucky has the third highest rate of tooth loss.
Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2016/09/22/health/cnn-hero-edwin-smith-kids-first-dental-services/index.html?source=Snapzu