Jordan Valinsky
Jordan Valinsky is the lead writer for Speed Reads. Before joining The Week, he wrote for New York Observer's tech blog, Betabeat, and tracked the intersection between popular culture and the internet for The Daily Dot. He graduated with a degree in online journalism from Ohio University.
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You can buy Google Glass next week — but only for a day
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Watch 7 smart chimpanzees escape their pen using a tree branch
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Watch Lorde perform Nirvana's 'All Apologies'
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Pope Francis asks for forgiveness over priests' sexual abuse
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The NSA reportedly knew about the Heartbleed bug for 2 years — and exploited it
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Samantha Power urges U.N. to fight texting while driving
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Obama nominates Sylvia Mathews Burwell as health secretary
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Ohio man ordered to hold 'I am a bully' sign on street corner for 5 hours
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Dating app Tinder isn't a $5 billion company
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This teen quickly learned to never tweet a terrorism joke to an airline
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A British gay couple became the first to be married in a church
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Italian woman accidentally implanted with someone else's embryos
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Chris Christie isn't going to miss David Letterman
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HBO renews comedies Veep and Silicon Valley
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$119,000 will buy you a seat on Four Seasons' private plane
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Woman seeks $275k after suffering an attack from an 'abnormally dangerous' duck
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3 Americans dead, 1 injured in Kabul hospital attack
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President Obama finds Japan's soccer-kicking robots 'a little scary'
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Watch a group of drones play music in this terrifying video
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Vice News reporter Simon Ostrovsky freed from pro-Russian militia
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Watch Novak Djokovic become best friends with a French Open ball boy
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Study: Going on a low-calorie diet might prevent the spread of breast cancer
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White House to keep fewer than 10,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan beyond 2014
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Sales of televisions in Brazil are 'soaring' ahead of the World Cup
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