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You may have seen the exuberant celebrations of David Katoatau, an Olympic weightlifter competing in the 105-kg weight class for the island nation of Kiribati.

NBC titled their video clip, “Weightlifting makes David Katoatau want to dance.”

But there’s another, solemn reason for his joyful performance. Katoatau told Reuters he wants to raise global awareness of the climate change that threatens to destroy his country.

Video: NBC, Map: Wikimedia

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Ryan Lochte is the dumbest bell that ever rang. The 32-year-old swimmer is so landlocked in juvenility that he pulled an all-nighter with guys young enough to call him uncle. His story to NBC’s Billy “what-are-you-wearing” Bush had the quality of a kid exaggerating the size of a fish, and notice how he was the hero of every detail. That was always the most dubious, implausible part. There is a special category of obnoxious American “bro” that Lochte represents, in his T-shirt and jeans and expensive suede footwear, which he showed off on social media that night at the party along with the price tag. “We’re 6k deep here,” he captioned it. Is there anything worse, in any country, than a bunch of entitled young drunks who break the furniture and pee on a wall? There is no translator needed for that one, no cultural norm that excuses it.

Washington Post sports columnist Sally Jenkins, on Ryan Lochte: “A champion swimmer caught in a riptide of self-absorption”

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TV Fanatics Unite! Introducing Yahoo View, a TV Watching Experience Featuring Hulu

By Jess Lee, Vice President of Lifestyles Product

I’m a TV junkie who can’t get enough of my favorite shows – “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D” and “Brooklyn Nine-Nine.” After watching an episode, I love to geek out on Tumblr with other fans over plot twists, costumes and my favorite ships.

So, I’m incredibly excited today to announce the launch of Yahoo View, a brand new community TV-watching site. We are partnering with Hulu to offer thousands of free full-length episodes of premium TV shows, anime and Korean drama, as well as movies and TV clips. We’ve got everything from “Scandal" to “Empire” to “One Punch Man” to “Sungkyunkwan Scandal.” You can also go beyond the episode with behind-the-scenes extras, recaps, and the best GIFs, photos and edits from the Tumblr fandom community.

We’ve seen awesome things happen when you add community and content together (think of the passionate communities on Yahoo Sports, Polyvore and Tumblr to name a few) and are excited to be taking this first step towards creating a powerful community TV-watching experience. Today’s launch is only scratching the surface of what’s possible, and we are looking forward to rolling out more content and community-related updates soon!

view.yahoo.com is immediately available in the U.S. today. Mobile web and mobile apps will be coming soon.

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The federal government announced plans Thursday to lift a moratorium on funding of certain controversial experiments that use human stem cells to create animal embryos that are partly human.

The National Institutes of Health is proposing a new policy to permit scientists to get federal money to make embryos, known as chimeras, under certain carefully monitored conditions.

The NIH imposed a moratorium on funding these experiments in September because they could raise ethical concerns.

One issue is that scientists might inadvertently create animals that have partly human brains, endowing them with some semblance of human consciousness or human thinking abilities. Another is that they could develop into animals with human sperm and eggs and breed, producing human embryos or fetuses inside animals or hybrid creatures.

But scientists have argued that they could take steps to prevent those outcomes and that the embryos provide invaluable tools for medical research.

NIH Plans To Lift Ban On Research Funds For Part-Human, Part-Animal Embryos

Photo: Pablo Ross of the University of California, Davis, inserts human stem cells into a pig embryo as part of experiments to create chimeric embryos. Rob Stein/NPR

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