Monday, August 31, 2015

Flower Power

What Is The Trump Endgame?, It's Tough Being A Billionaire, And Other News, Send Better Email, The Oliver Sacks Reading List, The Solar Sunflower: Harnessing The Power Of 5,000 Suns, The Secret History Of 'Y'all'
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Monday, August 31, 2015
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MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN?
What Is The Trump Endgame?
nymag.com
How the Donald will play a huge — yuuuge — role in deciding the next president.
WHAT YOU MISSED THIS WEEKEND
It's Tough Being A Billionaire, And Other News
digg.com
Mo' money is indeed a recipe for mo' problems, supermarkets are charging you a lot mo' money for organic produce for no reason, and Kanye had mo' fun than ever at the VMAs.
PRODUCTS WE DIGG SPONSORED
Send Better Email
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HIS WORDS LIVE ON
The Oliver Sacks Reading List
theatlantic.com
Writer and neurologist Oliver Sacks passed away Sunday morning — he leaves behind a body of work that reveals a lifetime of asking difficult questions with empathy.
FLOWER POWERED
The Solar Sunflower: Harnessing The Power Of 5,000 Suns
arstechnica.com
The two constituent technologies of the Solar Sunflower — concentrated solar thermal power and photovoltaic solar power — are both very well known and understood at this point, and not at all exciting. What's special about the Sunflower, however, is that it combines both of the technologies together in a novel fashion to attain much higher total efficiency.
SECRET LANGUAGE
The Secret History Of 'Y'all'
salon.com
The phrase "y'all" might not simply be the shortened form of "you all" — but something far more complex.
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ROCKET MAN
Image: ​Preparations for launching Russian Soyuz TMA-18M spaceship that will carry a new crew to the International Space Station, ISS, are under way in an assembly shop in Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Sunday, Aug. 30, 2015. Start of the new Soyuz mission is scheduled on Wednesday, Sept. 28. The Russian rocket will carry Kazakhstan's cosmonaut Aydyn Aimbetov, Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov and De
​Preparations for launching Russian Soyuz TMA-18M spaceship that will carry a new crew to the International Space Station, ISS, are under way in an assembly shop in Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Sunday, Aug. 30, 2015. Start of the new Soyuz mission is scheduled on Wednesday, Sept. 28. The Russian rocket will carry Kazakhstan's cosmonaut Aydyn Aimbetov, Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov and De Credit: AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky
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Friday, August 28, 2015

Netflix And Chill

You Don't Need To Drink So Much Water And Other Facts, Mr. Cook Goes To Washington, These People Willingly Jump Out Of Planes Half-Naked, WATCH: Ruptured Hydrant And High Voltage Line Cause Bizarre Explosions In Hollywood, How 'Netflix And Chill' Became Teen Slang For Having Sex, Your Fitness Community Sickens Me
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Friday, August 28, 2015
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WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK
You Don't Need To Drink So Much Water And Other Facts
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This week we learned that it's okay to be a little thirsty, why we must go back to the Moon and that you're a dad. Congrats!
APPLE VERSUS DC
Mr. Cook Goes To Washington
politico.com
Steve Jobs famously disdained DC. Tim Cook's quietly taking it on.
UNDIES WE DIGG SPONSORED
These People Willingly Jump Out Of Planes Half-Naked
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MeUndies is highlighting people who live boldly. In this installment, skydiving instructor Clinton Moore, who was born to be in the sky — so much that he'll do it in just his underwear.
NO INJURIES
WATCH: Ruptured Hydrant And High Voltage Line Cause Bizarre Explosions In Hollywood
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Early this morning a woman lost control of her car and hit a fire hydrant. The resulting geyser made contact with power lines above it, creating the circumstances for this unusual explosion.
LIKE PARKING, OR GOING TO THE MOVIES
How 'Netflix And Chill' Became Teen Slang For Having Sex
fusion.net
It's a phrase that means, roughly, "hooking up." But it's a lot more complicated than that. "Netflix and chill" is a classic case of social media-fueled semantic drift
LOSING YOUR SOUL AT SOULCYCLE
Your Fitness Community Sickens Me
gawker.com
SoulCycle. A room full of stationary bikes improbably masquerading as a lifestyle.
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EL VIAJE MISTERIOSO DE NUESTRO JOMER
Image: A protester dressed as the cartoon character Homer Simpson steps between demonstrators and police, in an attempt to stop clashes at the end of a student march in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2015.​
A protester dressed as the cartoon character Homer Simpson steps between demonstrators and police, in an attempt to stop clashes at the end of a student march in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2015.​ Credit: AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo
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Thursday, August 27, 2015

Put On Your Moon Boots

The Best Articles Of The Week: A Facebook Suicide And The Suicide Girls, How We Plan On Colonizing The Moon, You'll Be Glowing In This Jacket — Literally, The Summer of Censors, VIDEO: Liquids Are Good For Hydration — And Awesome Science Tricks, Mobile Banking Could Take Over The Developing World
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Thursday, August 27, 2015
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THE LONG-READER'S DIGEST
The Best Articles Of The Week: A Facebook Suicide And The Suicide Girls
digg.com
A troubled veteran takes his life live on Facebook, a history of the Suicide Girls, and the teens behind the Slender Man stabbing.
HECKUVA COMMUTE
How We Plan On Colonizing The Moon
macleans.ca
The Moon landing was a giant leap. The next leap is staying there.
JACKETS WE DIGG SPONSORED
You'll Be Glowing In This Jacket — Literally
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Stand out with Betabrand's hyper-reflective Flashback Photobomber Hoodie. With its glass nanosphere coating, there's no way you'll fall into the background.
CLEANED UP REAL NICE
The Summer of Censors
medium.com
From Jane's Addiction to Body Count, music censorship swelled in the early 1990s
A MAGICIAN NEVER SPILLS HIS SECRETS
VIDEO: Liquids Are Good For Hydration — And Awesome Science Tricks
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YouTuber brusspup demonstrates that high-fructose corn syrup, while bad for you, is good for cool science tricks. And we still can't figure out what's going on with the last one.
THE WORLD'S BANK
Mobile Banking Could Take Over The Developing World
buzzfeed.com
A new Brookings Institution report says financial tech is helping to close the economic gender gap and connect marginalized communities that lack access to banks.
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A BLOOD-RED BATH
Image: Two women lie in a puddle of squashed tomatoes during the annual
Two women lie in a puddle of squashed tomatoes during the annual "tomatina" tomato fight fiesta, in the village of Bunol, 50 kilometers outside Valencia, Spain, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015. Credit: AP Photo/Alberto Saiz
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Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Have You Been A Dad This Whole Time?

Unearthing The Lost World Of Dimetrodon — Ancestor To The Dinosaurs, Have You Been A Dad This Whole Time?, Blue Apron Delivery > Lukewarm Takeout, New York Has A Problem With Nipples, Behind The Scenes Of An Escape Room, The Growing Global Battle Against Ticks
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Wednesday, August 26, 2015
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OLDER THAN DIRT
Unearthing The Lost World Of Dimetrodon — Ancestor To The Dinosaurs
texasobserver.org
Sixty million years before the first dinosaur, it slept, basked, chased and killed. It breathed. It was alive.
IT'S A DAD, DAD, DAD, DAD WORLD
Have You Been A Dad This Whole Time?
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In his Product Hunt LIVE bio, Chris Sacca describes himself as both "father" and "dad." Which got us thinking: is there a difference between the two?
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Blue Apron Delivery > Lukewarm Takeout
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WHAT WE'RE READING IN POLITICS THIS WEEK
New York Has A Problem With Nipples
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Welcome to "The Enthusiasm Gap," a weekly digest that aims to bridge the gap between interest and enthusiasm in politics by bringing you the best political and electoral writing of the week.​
LOCKED IN
Behind The Scenes Of An Escape Room
makezine.com
Escape rooms have become a popular tourist attraction, team-building activity, and general form of entertainment in the U.S., powered not only by the players who can't get enough of the real-life puzzles, but also by the makers, who pour creativity, technology, and love into every design.
TIME IS TICKING
The Growing Global Battle Against Ticks
nature.com
Scientists have no shortage of ideas about how to stop tick-borne illnesses. What is holding them back?
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OUT IN FORCE
Image: Tens of thousands of protestors from Gujarat's Patel community participate in a rally in Ahmadabad, India, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2015. The members of the community from this western Indian state are demanding affirmative action for better access to education and employment.​
Tens of thousands of protestors from Gujarat's Patel community participate in a rally in Ahmadabad, India, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2015. The members of the community from this western Indian state are demanding affirmative action for better access to education and employment.​ Credit: AP Photo/Ajit Solanki
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