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Last week we introduced you "Recurring Developments," a graphic that indicated where you can find instances of Arrested Development's repeated jokes, now NPR has released their take on the show's "running gags." It's called "Previously, on Arrested Development," and it takes fandom to the next level.
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Mother Jones on protest in China, The Guardian on building bamboo bikes, The Daily Climate on coal plants, Reuters on Australia's marine parks, Scientific American on Obama's energy and green policies.
Neither the Twilight books nor movies have been particularly well-received by critics. So why are they such a sensation? The fans. Now that the last movie has been released, we look back on this fandom and memorialize some of its most important and ridiculous moments.
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New York Daily News on Cuomo's climate change vision, ClimateWire on the state of the electric grid, The Guardian on rats, Grist on Chicago's urban farming plans, and SFGate on Greenbuild
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Even though it's been a week since the election: Mitt Romney's gaffes are still being used as fresh fodder for the Internet.
While the folks at Google who made this map of nearby stars caution that "scientific accuracy is not guaranteed" — and much of the data is drawn from Wikipedia — what they do give us is a tool for Google Chrome that is at least a tad bit educational and for the most part makes the user feel like she is about to ride Space Mountain.
The Daily Climate on how ranchers are adapting, The New York Times on companies that are planning to produce "cellulosic biofuels," Mother Jones on cap and trade, Grist on climate change art, The Guardian on a Vietnamese village.
Ryan Gosling should never be People's "Sexiest Man Alive." And, no, it's not because he isn't sexy.
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Some depressing news out of France as the holiday season approaches: this year's champagne harvest was down 40 percent this year as terrible weather including hailstorms, and fungus attacked vineyards.
The Guardian on Al Gore, The New York Times on an "Indiana Jones," Grist on post-election optimism, ClimateWire on snowpacks, and Co.Exist on fishing.
The world's current favorite boy band released their new album Take Me Home in the U.S. today. In case you've got an eager Directioner lurking wherever you're going for the holidays, we've listened to the album and provided some key talking points on five songs.
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Discovery News on pandas, Grist on for-profit local food, Scientific American on falling trees, Politico on how climate change threatens national security, The Guardian on sea ice.
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The New York Times on Maya civilization and climate change, Wired on environmental legislation, TreeHugger on Siemens' The Crystal, Scientific American on the extinction of freshwater fish, The Hollywood Reporter on Matt Damon's documentary.
It can't be debated that the musical Annie is a saccharine show. But with Annie back on Broadway this season, critics and commenters are reminded how remarkably relevant the titular character's optimism is be in a nation and a city reeling from hardship.
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Since Nate Silver was also declared one of Tuesday night's election winners two competing memes involving the now heroic statistician have popped up on Twitter: "Drunk Nate Silver" and #natesilverfacts.
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Obama may have won last night, and so did Nate Silver, but another victor in the election was the Democratic pollster Public Policy Polling.
Last night Obama called Joe Biden a "happy warrior." There have been others before him.
Obama may have won the female vote in last night's election, but there will also now be a record number of women serving in the Senate next January when one in five members of the upper chamber will be female.
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Obama took the stage at his campaign headquarters in Chicago.
President Obama's second term is tonight's big news, but this election could eventually be remembered more for its gay equality milestones than its presidential results. Same-sex marriage was approved in two states, a ban will likely be struck down in another, and Tammy Baldwin became America's first openly gay senator.
CNN, the network that earned mockery for bringing us interviews "via hologram" on election night 2008, will once again engage in some visual silliness as they measure tonight's returns. The network will be measuring electoral votes on the Empire State Building.
Once you've voted there's not much else to do on Election Day other than sit around and wait for results to actually start pouring in. So what better way to get through this time than to click on some mindless election-related single-serving websites?
The importance of Ohio to this presidential race has been repeated again and again as Election Day approached, but as voters go to the polls, how important is just one vote in the state?
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Today in Poll Watch: National polls show the presidential race essentially tied. In the swing states, it's a mixed picture: Mitt Romney has the upper hand in Florida, the two are in a dead heat in Virginia, and President Obama is ahead in New Hampshire and Ohio. But that still means Romney's the underdog, because winning Virginia and Florida won't get him to 270 electoral votes.
The final Gallup poll released today shows Romney maintaining a one point lead over Obama.
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, the tanned, big-haired, six-packed stars of MTV's Jersey Shore, will be putting their dubious fame to good use to rebuild the site that once served as the staging ground for their exploits.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said yesterday that its dewatering task force removed more than an Olympic-size swimming pool's worth of water per minute from New York's flooded mass transit tunnels.
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Today in Poll Watch: Colorado, a back-up for Obama, has the president in a small lead for the most part, a CNN/ORC International Poll has Obama up by three, and Mourdock drops (though not according to him) in Indiana.
The origins of Staten Island's "forgotten" status.
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Polling out of Iowa produces mixed results, Wisconsin's tight, and a neck-and-neck race nationally, but maybe there's a better question.
With Sandy having arrived on our shores and the polls are not really telling us how the election is going to turn out the campaign is drawing to a close on a serious note. But has it ever been fun for Romney?
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Obama's up by slim margins in two Ohio polls, a national poll has Obama up by five, Michigan might be up for grabs, Obama's up by eight in a Wisconsin poll, and Europeans like Obama.
Maybe this is why Romney is so reluctant to go on late night shows: he's been joked about more than twice as much as the president has.
While today is technically Halloween, it's unclear when the holiday actually falls this year as officials in the states hit by the storm have postponed festivities.
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Today in Poll Watch: An NPR poll shows just how perplexing the presidential race is a week away, it's a dead heat in the Florida Senate race, and a poll today shows Elizabeth Warren up by 7 points over Sen. Scott Brown in Massachusetts.
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As Sandy clean-up begins in New York City, the presidential horse-race, now officially a week before the election, slows—but doesn't quite come to a complete halt.
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