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#CTLCNN: The results are in!

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:19:58 -0400

This is journalism as democracy. You voted. And I’ll cover your top five picks as part of the CNN Change the List project.

Drum roll please ..

And the winners are:

1. America’s widening rich-poor gap (16,789 votes)

2. Illegal animal trade (13,276 votes)

3. Where rape is most common (12,996)

4. The world’s poorest children (12,820)

5. America’s most endangered river (12,002)

See the full list on CNN.com. Thanks to all who voted!

More than 32K votes in all. So cool.

"America’s widening gap between the rich and poor — and this country’s fast-disappearing sense of..."

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:34:44 -0400

““America’s widening gap between the rich and poor — and this country’s fast-disappearing sense of security and progress and economic stability — is so far the top pick among the 20 subjects I presented as part of a new project called Change the List.””

- “Who cares about the economy?” - John Sutter/ CNN (via cnnchangethelist)

Change the List: You pick it, CNN will cover it

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 08:12:18 -0400

Change the List: You pick it, CNN will cover it:

cnnchangethelist:

Pick your top five from this list and VOTE HERE! I’ll cover the winning five as part of CNN’s Change the List project. Voting closes next Monday.

Here are the topics to choose from:

No toilets: In one country, 90% don’t have basic sanitation.

Rivers: Some U.S. rivers are dry or…

buzzfeed: You can change the direction this train is moving...

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:30:31 -0400

buzzfeed:

You can change the direction this train is moving just by thinking about it.

Going through a tornado with a non-Oklahoman

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 20:48:29 -0400

okcomg:

longreads: “The County Where No One’s Gay.” John D. Sutter,...

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 13:13:44 -0400

longreads:

“The County Where No One’s Gay.” John D. Sutter, CNN.

Woohoo!

amalucky: Wowowowowowowow footage of the Russian meteor strike

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 09:05:30 -0500

amalucky:

Wowowowowowowow

footage of the Russian meteor strike

nprmusic: When people hear John Mark Nelson’s music for the...

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 11:25:20 -0500

nprmusic:

When people hear John Mark Nelson’s music for the first time, there’s often a sense of disbelief. With arrangements that recall the work of veteran songwriters, the 19-year-old Minnetonka, Minn., native has been recording sophisticated compositions since he was 14.

Watch him and his cadre of teenage friends make their radio debut on Minnesota Public Radio’s The Current, as they perform the song “Reminisce.”

newyorker: Cartoon by Zachary Kanin. For more from this week’s...

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 11:20:05 -0500

newyorker:

Cartoon by Zachary Kanin. For more from this week’s issue: http://nyr.kr/WHB3Hp

laughingsquid: What To Do When You See A Bear this is awesome...

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 11:49:45 -0500

laughingsquid:

What To Do When You See A Bear

this is awesome …

inothernews: DOT MATRIX Center-point irrigation fields in the...

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 11:42:00 -0500

inothernews:

DOT MATRIX Center-point irrigation fields in the Egyptian desert, photographed from the International Space Station by Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield. More of his photos here. (via Twitter)

Eritrea ranks last, below N.Korea. Called a “vast open...

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:09:03 -0500

Eritrea ranks last, below N.Korea. Called a “vast open prison.”

staff: chroniclebooks: What happens when the great minds...

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:16:24 -0500

staff:

chroniclebooks:

What happens when the great minds of Tumblr and Chronicle Books unite? A unicorn is born! Wait, no. Awesome Tumblrs like F*ck! I’m in My Twenties and Dads Are the Original Hipsters become hilarious books.

And now, it could be your turn.

We’re looking for the next big humor book idea. This is your chance to get your idea in front of our editors.

Read More

i’m sorry but that cat is amazing …

"Part of being able to move this forward is understanding the reality of guns in urban areas are very..."

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 17:35:02 -0500

“

Part of being able to move this forward is understanding the reality of guns in urban areas are very different from the realities of guns in rural areas. And if you grew up and your dad gave you a hunting rifle when you were ten, and you went out and spent the day with him and your uncles, and that became part of your family’s traditions, you can see why you’d be pretty protective of that.

So it’s trying to bridge those gaps that I think is going to be part of the biggest task over the next several months. And that means that advocates of gun control have to do a little more listening than they do sometimes.

”

- Barack Obama (via soupsoup)

thingsmagazine: Manhattan from above, by Sergey Semonov (via...

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:14:26 -0500

thingsmagazine:

Manhattan from above, by Sergey Semonov (via The Verge)

instagram: The 25th Annual International Kite Festival in...

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:08:10 -0500

instagram.com/p/UbGG8eHLLy/#harry_2725

instagram.com/p/UcydZam0Q1/#payaliyah

instagram.com/p/UbTvu-zdPo/#shahpraneel

instagram.com/p/UbqE3pgTjM/#shaunak_photographie

instagram.com/p/Uav3pHo7hs/#ashgobindram

instagram.com/p/UasqotxA4p/#keta011

instagram:

The 25th Annual International Kite Festival in Gujarat

On the days in the Hindu calendar when winter begins turning into summer, known as Uttarayan, the skies over the state of Gujarat, India, are filled with thousands of colorful kites. Families wake before dawn to gather on rooftops and in the roadways, filling the blue skies with their homemade kites in celebration of warm days ahead. The most popular destination during Uttarayn is Ahmedabad, the official location for the International Kite Festival, where enthusiasts from around the world gather to fly highly unusual kites of all shapes and sizes and participate in kite racing competitions.

Change the List: Hawaii ties for last in voting (hooray!?)

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:08:46 -0500

Change the List: Hawaii ties for last in voting (hooray!?) :

cnnchangethelist:

(CNN) — Hawaii tied West Virginia for 49th place in voter turnout in the November election — and I’m pretty pumped about it. That may seem like a strange thing to be excited about, or even to know about, but hear me out on this: Since September, I’ve been writing about Hawaii’s…

laughingsquid: NYPD Officer Secretly Captured Being Kind to a...

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:29:48 -0500

laughingsquid:

NYPD Officer Secretly Captured Being Kind to a Barefoot Homeless Man

i love this story … NYT did a nice job with it …

Greenpeace “Voices of Climate Change”

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 17:23:18 -0500

Greenpeace “Voices of Climate Change”

An official excerpt from today's State Department press conference about Andrew WK's Middle East party mission

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:42:41 -0500

Q: And then secondly -- and this is a really kind of bizarre -- there's an entertainer who goes by the name of Andrew W.K. who says that he has been named or appointed by the State Department to be a cultural ambassador to appear at some event in Bahrain. Do you know anything about this?

MS. NULAND: And here I thought we were going to get through this whole briefing without that point coming up.

Q: Oh, you do -- you do. Is it -- is it true? You have something?

MS. NULAND: I do have a little something on this. So we had a Bahraini entity that approached the embassy about co-sponsoring a visit by this guy, who I take it is pretty popular there in Bahrain. That was initially approved, and then when more senior management at the embassy took a look at this, the conclusion was that this was not an appropriate use of U.S. government funds.

Q: Is that -- is that -- did -- would they -- the government would have paid for his trip over there had it -- (inaudible) --

MS. NULAND: I don't know what the details of our sponsorship were -- (inaudible) --

Q: Can you explain why it was -- was it -- I mean, his -- (chuckles) -- that the -- was it -- was the -- it was decided that it was inappropriate to send someone over there to Bahrain to represent the United States whose hits include, you know, "Party 'Til You Puke" and things like that? (Laughter.) Is that -- is that why it was -- is that why it was decided it was inappropriate?

MS. NULAND: Thank you for sharing that. I think --

Q: No, is that -- is that why?

MS. NULAND: I think the conclusion was when they looked at the body of his work that we didn't need to be part of this invitation. I'll leave --

Q: (Inaudible) -- and just hold on -- just to make clear, it was -- the invitation was actually never extended to him?

MS. NULAND: Frankly, I don't have the details. There may have been some preliminary conversations with him. But he is not going to be going to Bahrain on the U.S. government's dime.

Q: All right.