Women chess players must wear hijabs to play in the world championships in Iran — Quartz

Top-ranked female chess players have been told that if they want to compete in next year’s world championships, they’ll have to wear hijabs—because the competition will be held in Iran. Grandmasters have accused the World Chess Federation’s Commission for Women’s Chess of ignoring the implicit sexual and religious discrimination, reports the Telegraph. US women’s champion…

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[LISTEN] Tycho – Slack :: Indie Shuffle

You don’t need to be Beyonce to drop an album unexpectedly and send the Internets into a tizzy. Today, Tycho (aka Scott Hansen and friends) surprised his loyal, quiet following with his complete fourth studio album, Epoch. “10 years ago next month the first Tycho record, Past is Prologue, was released and it’s been an…

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Stormageddon Brings Saigon to Its Knees – Saigoneer

Details Published on Tuesday, 27 September 2016 10:52 Written by Saigoneer. This week is off to a rough start for Saigoneers after yesterday’s torrential downpour brought unprecedented flooding to the southern hub. After a period of increasingly dark skies, the rains began around 5pm, coming down in sheets all over town. According to Tuoi Tre,…

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How NPR factchecked the first presidential debate in realtime, on top of a live transcript » Nieman Journalism Lab

Hillary Clinton gave multiple shoutouts to fact checkers during the first presidential debate on Monday — but of course, directing viewers to her own site, which was churning out its own fact checks on Donald Trump’s statements throughout the night. Though TV networks (mostly) shied away from on-screen fact checking, other news organizations doubled down,…

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