November 30, 2015
By The Morning News
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- French police teargas crowds and arrest more than 200 ahead of the Paris Climate Conference, which begins today.
- UN climate conferences are soap operas.
- Elizabeth Kolbert profiles Christina Figueres, who is facilitating the Paris climate conference.
- "In terms of the [Paris] negotiations, they're largely a sham."
- The estimated carbon footprint for the officials, workers, journalists, and activists who came to Paris: 300K tons.
- Everything you wanted to ask about climate change, but were afraid to know.
- California's Central Valley is sinking two inches per month.
- Climate change is killing the agriculture some 15.5 million poor Guatemalans rely on for work.
- The role of technologists in contributing to the fight against climate change.
- Half those killed by gun violence are black men in cities—a fact the gun control debate ignores.
- UN finds hookup apps have led to dramatic HIV-infection spikes in young gay men in Southeast Asia.
- Porn star James Deen, mainstreamed by GQ as "the well-hung boy next door," accused of rape by three co-stars.
- Male artists dominate field recording. The danger of being alone and female in the outlands hurts careers.
- In prog and life, you must work to reach the end.
- Researchers study the many intersections of CrossFit and religion.
- Today's video: Time Lapse of Sol LeWitt's Wall Drawing #797.
