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Flashmob | Tchaikovsky's 1812

Young musicians of the Banda Simfònica d'Algemesí light up a public square with a flash mob performance of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture on September 3, 2016.

'Shockingly Stupid': Trump's Attack on Climate Research

Nika Knight Common Dreams
Trump's proposal to eliminate NASA's climate research program is "a shockingly stupid move that would deal a very severe blow to global research on environmental change across the world."

Russian Propaganda Effort Helped Spread ‘Fake News’ During Election, Experts Say

Craig Timberg The Washington Post
There is no way to know whether Russian 'fake news' efforts proved decisive in electing Trump, but researchers say it was part of a broadly effective strategy. The tactics included penetrating the computers of election officials and releasing troves of hacked emails that embarrassed Clinton in the final months of her campaign.

Friday Nite Videos -- November 25, 2016

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Bernie Sanders' Future With the Democratic Party. Our Two Biggest Misconceptions About the Universe. Flashmob | Tchaikovsky's 1812. Trump's Foreign Business Ties: A Closer Look. Arctic Sea Ice Is Disappearing.

Welcome Home

Courtney Stewart The National Reentry Network for Returning Citizens
Many of our returning citizens are ill prepared for the tough road ahead of them, meeting conditions of their release, reuniting with family and loved ones, securing employment and stable housing. The prison system normally releases them to a parking lot miles away from where they are from and expects them to figure the rest out on their own.

Winning at Russian Roulette

Scott McLemee Inside Higher Ed
McLemee looks at 30 academic studies of Hillary Clinton, finding interest in her focusing either as a user of some form of communication media or as an object of media representation. Like the campaign's news coverage, where personality trumped policy, research tended to focus on how Clinton challenged or was constrained by traditional female roles or implicit assumptions about the proper connect between public and private identity than in her work as a public official.