How to Lead a Nation That Will Be Swallowed by the Sea. Illustrations by Kevin VQ Dam This story appears in the December issue of VICE magazine. The far-flung nation of Kiribati (pronounced Kee-ree-bas) spans a cluster of 33 atolls in the central Pacific Ocean. The islands are tiny but widely dispersed; if you count its territorial waters, the country is technically the size of India. It’s also in the process of vanishing: Kiribati has the unfortunate distinction of being one of the first nations projected to be swallowed by rising sea levels.
Something like this has happened in the country before, on a much smaller scale. More than half a century ago, when Kiribati was still under British rule, and the majority of it was still called the Gilbert Islands, drought and environmental disaster on some of the smaller isles spurred colonialist forces to relocate hundreds of Kiribati citizens to Gizo, an island in the neighboring Solomon chain, where they were slowly integrated into the local population. That was in 1954. “It’s too late for us.” MSNBC and CNN Enter San Bernardino Suspects' Apartment. A baffling, surreal scene just played out on the two networks, where the landlord of the San Bernardino shooting suspects apparently allowed reporters into their apartment. The result was disturbing. On live national television, reporters sifted through the remains of the lives of Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik. They picked over children’s toys. They held up photos, speculating about whether the woman depicted in one might be Malik.
They displayed Social Security cards and driver’s licenses with readily identifiable information—and not just for the deceased suspects: As if the journalistic irresponsibility of baselessly speculating while holding up images of potentially innocent people on TV wasn’t bad enough, it beggars belief the scene wasn’t taped off and guarded. Reporters were given free rein to walk through an apartment that is an important part of the investigation, and they were allowed to handle what one would expect to be evidence.
The Best Energy Stories of the Week. The Syrian Kurds Are Winning! There is a new Great Game unfolding in Central Asia, and it centers on the belt of mountainous land that stretches from southeast Turkey, across northern Syria and Iraq, and into northwestern Iran: the land of the Kurds, or Kurdistan. The region is home to not only 30 million or so ethnic Kurds, the largest ethnic group worldwide that lacks its own nation, but also rich reserves of oil and gas. Iraqi Kurdistan is thought to have the world’s eighth-largest oil reserves. The civil wars in Iraq and now Syria have created political space for the Kurds to establish quasi-independent enclaves that are likely, eventually, to achieve a large degree of autonomy or even statehood.
Don Blankenship, West Virginia’s “King of Coal,” Is Guilty No roundup of the week’s energy developments would be complete without the news that Don Blankenship, the vilified former CEO of Massey Energy, was found guilty of conspiring to violate safety rules at his mines in Appalachia. Quora. Search Engine Censys Knows the Internet’s Dirty Little Security Secrets. A map showing the approximate location of some industrial control systems connected to the Internet, found using the search engine Censys. Early this week the Austrian security company SEC Consult found that more than three million routers, modems, and other devices are vulnerable to being hijacked over the Internet. Instead of giving each device a unique encryption key to secure its communications, manufacturers including Cisco and General Electric had lazily used a much smaller number of security keys over and over again. That security screwup was discovered with the help of Censys, a search engine aimed at helping security researchers find the Internet’s dirty little secrets by tracking all the devices hooked up to it.
Launched in October by researchers at the University of Michigan, it is likely to produce many more hair-raising findings. Google is providing infrastructure to power the search engine, which is free to use. Donald Trump’s Very Strange Brand of Narcissism. You may have noticed this before, but moderation has never exactly suited Donald Trump. There are ordinary buildings and there are the mirrored confections that are Trump buildings. There are presidential bandwagons and there is the horn-blaring, traffic-clearing Trump bandwagon. There is, too, ordinary narcissism and then there is Trumpian narcissism. Well before Trump ever declared for the presidency, he was already the exemplar of the narcissistic form. The strutting, blustering, arm-waving dance of the narcissist were all there. But while Trump’s narcissism seems self-evident—even if, as far as we know, no doctor has ever formally diagnosed or treated him—it’s a particularly complex case of the disorder. But from the beginning of his campaign, Trump has been an atypical narcissist too.
But Trump, strangely, has skipped over that honeymoon phase. His language is hamstrung by his over-reliance on simplistic superlatives—huge, the greatest, the best. Read Next: Donald Trump Has Landed. How Stoya took on James Deen and broke the porn industry's silence. Stoya says she couldn’t sleep. After arriving in Serbia on 18 November to begin work on a film, she had been woken by nightmares. Just one paparazzo waited for the internationally recognisable porn performer and writer at the airport, and even he had slunk off when the production assistant sent to meet her had told him, after he asked if this was Stoya, that it was not. Stoya couldn’t sleep in the converted attic room with the stark white wood floors where she stayed after 12-hour days on set, making a narrative, non-porn film that would keep her offline and occupied.
“There’s no room for anything else,” she said. She spent her time awake rehearsing her role in the film: a woman who would be raped by someone that she knew. She had managed to distract herself to sleep one night with a book – the third of Elena Ferrante’s Neopolitan novels, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay – and again the next night. Then she logged off. “People knew,” Raphael said. The 20 Most Instagrammed Places in the World. From New York City's Times Square to Berlin's East Side Gallery, Instagram users shed quite a wide light on the world's most popular photo ops.
Instagram has quickly become the new photo album for travelers, only better considering it comes complete with instantaneous jealous-likes from your friends who wish they were traveling the world. With 2015 coming to an end, Instagram took some time to reflect on the year's most Instagrammed cities and the most popular location in each city. While No. 1 is no real surprise (New York City, Times Square) the rest of the list spreads a more worldly light on the app's millions of users.
Check out the top 20 cities below and see how many you've 'grammed in person (talk about a vacation itenarary!). If this isn't enough vacation inspiration to get your trip-planning in gear, head on over to our round-up of the 50 best places to visit in 2016. Hnnnnngggggg. Denmark votes No on adopting EU rules. Image copyright AP Danes have rejected adopting EU rules on cross-border policing in a referendum that could have seen the country take closer ties with the bloc, according to final results.
Denmark's centre-right government had wanted to abandon some Danish opt-outs from EU home affairs legislation. But with all votes now counted, more than 53% said No to the proposals. The vote comes weeks after the Paris attacks and as Europe struggles to deal with record numbers of migrants. "It is a clear no," Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said, adding he had "full respect" for the voters' decision. Profile: Denmark's anti-EU party The government, backed by the opposition, had campaigned for Yes, saying it would help Danish authorities in the wake of the Paris attacks. Analysis: Gavin Lee, BBC News Copenhagen Ultimately, voting No means Denmark remains exempt from large parts of the EU's criminal justice and home affairs system, a position it negotiated in 1993.
Read more from Gavin. A Family Has Been Making These Amazingly Awkward Christmas Cards For 13 Years. Uruguay makes dramatic shift to nearly 95% electricity from clean energy | Environment. As the world gathers in Paris for the daunting task of switching from fossil fuels to renewable energy, one small country on the other side of the Atlantic is making that transition look childishly simple and affordable. In less than 10 years, Uruguay has slashed its carbon footprint without government subsidies or higher consumer costs, according to the country’s head of climate change policy, Ramón Méndez. In fact, he says that now that renewables provide 94.5% of the country’s electricity, prices are lower than in the past relative to inflation. There are also fewer power cuts because a diverse energy mix means greater resilience to droughts.
It was a very different story just 15 years ago. Now the biggest item on import balance sheet is wind turbines, which fill the country’s ports on their way to installation. Biomass and solar power have also been ramped up. Now, it is being recognised for progress on decarbonising its economy. This is not the only benefit for the economy. 'Star Wars' Strikes Back: Inside the Biggest Movie of the Year. It is a bleak time for the Republic. It is a period of great struggle for the entire planet, and not only is the dark side winning, it's no longer clear any other side even exists.
Seriously, you guys – Earth is messed up. Just ask a polar bear, or an almond farmer, or a GOP debate moderator. Or maybe check in with Luke Skywalker. "The world is so horrible," says Mark Hamill, Luke's closest earthly representative, sitting in the shadow of swaying trees in his rather pleasant Malibu yard. At 64, Hamill is older than Alec Guinness was in the first Star Wars, and is in the process of regrowing a distinctly Obi-Wan-ish beard. The "this" in question is Star Wars: The Force Awakens, out on December 18th and directed by geek hero J.J.
Jedi ended with what appeared to be a total defeat for the evil Empire, capped with what Harrison Ford called a "teddy-bear picnic" of dancing Ewoks, complete with smiley Jedi ghosts at the sidelines. In a shiny-new screening room, J.J. On set, it was different. Snowden Unveils NSA "God Mode" Malware That Lives On Your Motherboard And Can Not Be Traced | The Internet Chronicle. By hatesec, on August 17th, 2014 New Snowden revelation “GODSURGE” gives NSA ability to see everything your computer does – even the screen The NSA backdoor GODSURGE hooks in and propagates with DIETYBOUNCE Original documents released by Snowden reveal surveillance powers that go beyond root access, and into the hardware of all computer systems everywhere.
The exploit hooks itself into a computer’s boot loader, initiating an “infected” BIOS that is in no way distinguishable from normal computer activity, and can only be discovered through forensic investigation of the physical data chip using electron microscopes. With GODSURGE, a complex malware loaded by the similarly named malware DEITYBOUNCE, secret agents are able to monitor users’ computer activity – even when the computer is offline – because the malware phones home when users plug back in, reporting activity and filling in historical gaps. Or to put it another way, they see what you see. Your Comments comments. Too Much TV And Chill Could Reduce Brain Power Over Time. More than three hours a day could mean brain fade by middle age. Raoul Minsart/Masterfile/Corbis hide caption toggle caption Raoul Minsart/Masterfile/Corbis More than three hours a day could mean brain fade by middle age. Raoul Minsart/Masterfile/Corbis When I kick back to watch a show, I tell myself I'm just going to watch one episode.
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco checked in with 3,247 people for 25 years, starting when they were young adults. People who got little exercise or watched at least three hours of TV a day did worse on tests measuring cognitive focus and speed than those who got more exercise or watched less TV, according to the study, published in JAMA Psychiatry on Wednesday. "Then people who had both low physical activity and high TV had even worse performance. Some of that loss of brain power could be because just sitting around motionless isn't very good for us.
Or perhaps it's something about TV watching itself, Yaffe thinks. Programmes | More Or Less | Connecting with people in six steps. How well are you connected? Not necessarily to the rich and famous, but how well are we all connected to each other? One of the most famous claims is that anyone can reach anyone else through a chain of acquaintances no more than six people long. This idea, known as "six degrees of separation", is a measure of our social networks. The phrase was coined by an American academic, Stanley Milgram, after experiments in which he asked people to pass a letter only to others they knew by name.
The aim was to get it, eventually, to a named person they did not know living in another city. The average number of times it was passed on, he said, was six. Hence, the six degrees of separation. It is a seductive idea. Films have been made about it, there are parlour games based on it and mathematics has begun to propose theories for why it should be true. Judith Kleinfeld, a professor psychology at Alaska Fairbanks University, went back to Milgram's original research notes and found something surprising. History, Travel, Arts, Science, People, Places. Why Insomnia Happens and What You Can Do to Get Better Sleep. Game of Thrones Season Six Trailer: Jon Snow Isn't Dead. Spoiler alert for all the deaths and secret identities you predicted anyway After months of claiming, “Jon Snow is dead,” HBO has done something rather clever. They’ve slapped the face of a very much alive (though bloody) Jon Snow on a poster and teased his comeback in a trailer for Game of Thrones‘ upcoming sixth season.
It’s a savvy move that both satiates and intrigues fans. Because here’s the thing: Jon Snow is alive. Or at least he’s up and moving—his quality of life is still in question. Actor Kit Harington has been reportedly spotted on set in Belfast. So rather than dragging out the debate—Redditors are still bickering over the topic six months after that adorable traitor Olly shivved Jon Snow—HBO is basically admitting that we will see Harington’s long locks again.
The new trailer shows no new material from season six, instead offering the audience a brief recap of the terrible things our beloved Starks have suffered through while intoning, “The past is already written. The Strange Story Of How Mark Hamill Owes His Career To Freddy Krueger. Remember that old SNL sketch with Kevin Spacey where different actors you'd never think of are trying out for iconic roles in Star Wars? If there was a sequence with Spacey acting out the role of Han Solo as played by Robert Englund, it probably would have been played for laughs and everyone would have laughed along with it. Who'd have thought the man who eventually invaded our nightmares as Freddy Krueger in A Nightmare On Elm Street would have ever had a shot at playing a scruffy looking nerf herder?
Well you can stop laughing now, because not only did this happen, Mark Hamill would have never gotten his start without it. Yahoo recently interviewed Englund about his iconic career, as part of their ongoing Role Recall series. In the first part of their two-part interview, the actor recalls two parts he tried out for in the early days of his career: one was a surfer in Apocalypse Now, and as the story goes, he was told that he was too old for the role in question. FfbcAFq. Quora. Open a Claw Padlock Using the "Rapping" Method, No Lock Picking Required. History, Travel, Arts, Science, People, Places. Franklin D. Roosevelt: Message to Congress on Curbing Monopolies. I'm Larry Livermore. I lived in the mountains with no electricity, fending off bears and crazed pot growers. Then I founded a punk rock label called Lookout Records, met a young Tre Cool and Billie Joe Armstrong, and released the first Green Day record. A.
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