8 February - My Yahoo ! - 2 of 2

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Zelo Street

• Man Utd Row - Sun Owns Up

• Telegraph Achieves Peak EU Ignorance

• Man Utd Nails The Sun

Times of India

• Lok Sabha proceedings adjourned following ruckus over Harsh Vardhan's

• Pehle AAP? Delhi’s Muslims look to pick side to cancel out BJP in polls

• Better schools, not CAA, will build 21st-century India: Arvind Kejriwal

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India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India

• Building collapses in Punjab's Mohali, several feared trapped

  Several people are feared trapped in a three-storey building that collapsed in Punjab's Mohali district

• NDA government incompetent in managing the economy: P Chidambaram

• Pakistan considering proposal for passport-free entry of Indian pilgrims to

  Pakistan is considering a proposal for allowing Indian pilgrims to enter the Kartarpur corridor without

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News24 Voices

• News24.com | Herman Mashaba: there can be no political compromise in the

  As long as politicians continue to set the rules for dealing with their corrupt colleagues, friends, family

• News24.com | Ghaleb Cachalia: Cosatu’s PIC-Eskom bailout plan is outrageous

  The initiatives and context of Eskom's newly appointed CEO must be made public, and the validity of

• News24.com | Serjeant at the Bar: Ramaphosa needs to do right by Timol

  Why were activists able to summon the sustained courage to defeat a ghastly regime yet today there seems

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News24 Africa

• News24.com | WATCH: Ramaphosa ready to tackle Africa's problems

  The dream of a road that stretches from the Cape to Cairo could soon be realised if President Cyril

• News24.com | Malawi's Rastafarians win landmark dreadlock ruling

  Makeda Mbewe was just six years old when she was kicked out of her primary school in Malawi for wearing her

• News24.com | Beheadings, kidnappings amid surge in Mozambique attacks: UN

  People are fleeing a surge of attacks in northern Mozambique where witnesses have described beheadings

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WhoWhatWhy

• Hell and High Water in Australia

  Reading Time: 3 minutes Amazing videos show that what’s been happening in Australia has not stayed in

• Congress (Finally) Considers Amendment to Overturn Citizens United

  Reading Time: 3 minutes A decade later and billions of dollars deep, Congress is finally considering a

• Brain-Dead Republicans Acquit Guilty President — Now What?

  Reading Time: 4 minutes Senate Republicans found some creative ways to explain why President Donald

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Scoop NZ - Sci-tech

• How NZ would fare during a world catastrophe

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• Science Deadline - This Week in Sci-Tech

  A plane carrying nearly 200 Wuhan evacuees has landed in Auckland as the disease becomes more fatal than

• Southerly Saturday and sunny Sunday

  MetService is forecasting a front to spread a southerly change up the country tomorrow (Saturday). The

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The Science of Doom

• Opinions and Perspectives – 9 – Pattern Effects

  The IPCC 5th Assessment Report (AR5) from 2013 shows the range of results that climate models produce for

• Opinions and Perspectives – 8 – Pattern Effects Primer

  For people with maths, physics and chemistry (and biology) backgrounds non-linear processes are familiar

• Opinions and Perspectives – 7 – Global Temperature Change from Doubling CO2

  How much will global temperature rise if we double CO2 from pre-industrial levels? Based on current

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Seeing the Forest

• Fascists Eat Donuts

  From 2003, Make these donuts with extra grease. This batch is for the chief of police. Does anyone remember

• It’s Intimidation, Not “Moderation”

  The Nation has a great piece by By Guy T. Saperstein and Joe Cirincione, titled, Americans Want Jobs, Not

• Wut?

  For no particular reason, a bagpipe version of Eight Miles High by Rufus Harley. Inspired by John Coltrane

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Things I grab, motley collection

• New York just set a dangerous precedent on algorithms, experts warn

  It was supposed to be groundbreaking. When New York City’s task force to develop policy on algorithm

• the second wave of algorithmic accountability

  Over the past decade, algorithmic accountability has become an important concern for social scientists

• AI today and tomorrow is mostly about curve fitting, not intelligence

  As much as I look into what’s being done with deep learning, I see they’re all stuck there on the level of

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Whistleblower Protection Blog

• It’s time to build a movement for stronger whistleblower protections

  Now that the impeachment of President Trump and Senate trial have come to a close, it is time for those of

• Whistleblower advocates have more to say following House hearing

  The debate over whistleblower protection shifted to the impeachment trial, where another attempt was made

• Oversight hearing: Congress needs to clarify rules on confidentiality for

  Wednesday’s Congressional hearing on whistleblower protection for federal employees went a little off track

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Andy Worthington

• Celebrating 1,000 Days of My Photo-Journalism Project ‘The State of London’

  Marking 1,000 days since I began posting a photo a day on Facebook, on a page entitled, 'The State of

• Video: “Guantánamo in 2020: What is the Future of the Prison Camp after

  Here's the video of the panel discussion about Guantánamo that I undertook at the New America think

• Radio: Unauthorized Disclosure – I Discuss Guantánamo and Julian Assange

  A link to - and my report about - my recent interview with Kevin Gosztola and Rania Khalek for their "

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