On chilly Saturday mornings my father would fire up the kerosene heater and get the back of our garage warm. He’d turn on the old radio, constantly tuned to the local public radio station, and Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me or Harry Shearer would come on, clearing away the static like a gust of wind […]
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Watch Hurricane Florence unfold from space
Hurricanes are scary, especially if you happen to find yourself in one’s path. The International Space Station was able to send us down some footage of Hurricane Florence from space. It might appear more “pretty” than “scary,” but it’s still a chillin…
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A number of activists and organizers in the Washington DC area are disputing Facebook’s decision to remove a counter-protest event against a rally organized by Jason Kessler, the white nationalist figure who planned the deadly 2017 rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Facebook removed the event, “No Unite the Right 2-DC,” after discovering that one account connected to […]
View More Activists push back on Facebook’s decision to remove a DC protest eventPeelable circuits make it easy to Internet all the things
Researchers at Purdue University and the University of Virginia are now able to create “tiny, thin-film electronic circuits peelable from a surface,” the first step in creating an unobtrusive Internet-of-Things solution. The peelable stickers can sit flush to an object’s surface and be used as sensors or wireless communications systems. The biggest difference between these […]
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View More Toward transitive data privacy and securing the data you don’t shareDon’t think you can make a difference? This Democrat won by a SINGLE vote.
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Democracy! Sometimes it feels so pointless. But before you decide to skip next election, consider this: a race in the Virginia House of Delegates was decided by a single vote.
On Tuesday, the results of a recount by Virginia election officials was announced, and it turns out Democrat Shelly Simonds beat incumbent Republican David Yancey. The vote count? 11,608 to 11,607.
Yep. One single vote.
The dude who sat at home watching Netflix instead of voting probably feels pretty bad right about now.
This is the hypothetical scenario your middle school civics teacher dreamed about when they tried to tell you why it’s important to vote https://t.co/hk8RdhAtci
— Josh Billinson (@jbillinson) December 19, 2017 Read more…
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When goats aren’t doing yoga and posing for Instagram, they’re trying to influence OUR elections.
On Tuesday, these elitist barnyard animals were spotted at a polling station at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.
Goat the VOTE! Petting zoo at the polls at @virginia_tech #GameOnVA pic.twitter.com/nP6FOcRutG
— NextGen America (@NextGenAmerica) November 7, 2017
Virginia is looking to replace Gov. Terry McAuliffe with either Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat, or Ed Gillespie, the Republican candidate and former Enron lobbyist who’s run a very Trump-esque campaign.
Goats might seem non-partisan. But what’s the Democratic symbol? A donkey. Which is basically a dumb, less evil-looking goat. Read more…
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