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Sunday, May 31, 2015

Unknown History

ICYMI: 11 Female Inventors Who Helped Power The Information Age

Hedy Lamar

By BuzzFeed, Mar, 15, 2015

1. Hedy Lamar

Lauded as “the most beautiful woman in the world,” film actress Hedy Lamarr earned our eternal gratitude when she drafted a “Secret Communications System” during WWII — technology still used by cell networks, Bluetooth gadgets, and Wi-Fi.

2. Ada Lovelace

Dubbed “the world’s first programmer,” Ada Lovelace wrote commands that could solve specific math problems for an early mechanical computer in 1843. She also predicted that computers could “compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music.”

3. Grace Hopper

A century after Ada Lovelace, Rear Admiral Grace Hopper became one of the first to program computers in WWII. She invented the compiler — an English to computer translator — and popularized “computer bug” after a moth shorted out a Mark II.

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Thursday, February 12, 2015

Obama said "no one inherits a coalition"

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WaPo: The Single Most Important Sentence President Obama Uttered In His BuzzFeed Interview

By Chris Cillizza, Feb. 11, 2015, WashingtonPost.com

BuzzFeed chief Ben Smith sat down with President Obama on Tuesday. The interview drew lots of attention largely because, well, the president sat down with BuzzFeed. (If you are surprised by that, you haven't followed the Obama administration's media strategy very closely.) But Obama makes an important admission in the interview that gets at a critical question facing Democrats as they try to maintain control of the White House in 2016.

Here the exchange:

Smith: You were elected with this new coalition of young people, people of color, women, and I wonder: Is that a coalition that the next Democratic nominee — Hillary Clinton or not — inherits?

Obama: I don’t think any president inherits a coalition. I think any candidate has to win over people based on what they stand for, what their message is, what their vision is for the future.

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Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Tough job--cops must make split second decisions

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Graphic Body Cam Video Shows Police Shooting In Oklahoma

Jim Dalrymple II, Jan. 24, 2015, BuzzFeed

Police said they released the video in an effort to be transparent. Muskogee Sgt. Michael Mahan said that “it is our belief that the video clearly shows the suspect pointing the gun at the officer.” Mahan also told KFOR that “from everything we can see in the video, the officer responded appropriately.”

After the shooting, police found a loaded gun near Walker’s body, KFOR reported.

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Wednesday, January 21, 2015

arrested in Saudi Arabia

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Newsday Two Yemeni Citizens Indicted For Plotting To Kill Americans

Nicolas Medina Mora, Jan. 20, 2015, BuzzFeed

Saddiq Al-Abbadi and Ali Avi, aged 36 and 30, were arrested in Saudi Arabia and extradited to the U.S. They are accused of leading al-Qaeda and Taliban troops in battles against U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan between 2003 and 2009.

The charges against them were filed earlier this week in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, which covers Brooklyn, Queens, and Long Island. The U.S. attorney there, Loretta Lynch, is the current nominee for U.S. attorney general.

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Monday, January 12, 2015

In this version, maybe Cochran did it

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Cuba Gooding Jr. Promises A Powerful Look At The O.J. Simpson Trial In New Mini-Series

Jarett Wieselman, Jan. 10, 2015, Buzzfeed

“I’m so excited,” Gooding Jr. told BuzzFeed News while promoting BET’s The Book of Negroes at the Television Critics Association winter press tour in Pasadena, California. “Everybody’s like, ‘Oh, he’s playing O.J. — funny, funny.’ Wait till you hear the stuff we’re dealing with. We break apart the Los Angeles Police Department and we go into the aspects of the trial and we really expose a lot of what’s going on during that time in America and society and the racial temperature of that time. It’s very reflective, it’s very powerful, and hopefully very entertaining.”

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