Wednesday, July 13, 2016

In The Future, All Drugs Are Legal

Nature's Hidden Order
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Morning · Wed, Jul 13
EVERYTHING IN ITS RIGHT PLACE
Nature's Hidden Order
quantamagazine.org
Scientists are exploring a mysterious pattern, found in birds' eyes, boxes of marbles and other surprising places, that is neither regular nor random.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Senator Al Franken Demands 'Pokémon Go' Release Privacy Information
Japanese Emperor Plans To Step Down In Coming Years, A Step Unprecedented In Modern Japan
Hundreds Forcibly Disappeared In Egypt Crackdown, Says Amnesty
Trump Narrows His Vice President List To Three Contenders
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The Pocket-Sized Personal Finance Coach
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Money is hard. At least the not spending it part. Penny is a chat-based personal finance coach that sends you tailored insights to help you know how you're spending in real time.
EVERYTHING IS LEGAL NOW!
HIGH-CONCEPT POLICY-MAKING
What Would Happen If All Drugs Were Legal?
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Today on Flash Forward we travel to a future where all drugs are legal. Just roll up to the store, and get yourself some cocaine!
RAY OF LIGHT
Need New Nightmare Fuel? Meet The First Artificial Animal
inc.com
Scientists genetically engineered and 3-D-printed a biohybrid being, opening the door further for lifelike robots and artificial intelligence.
DIFFERENT EXPERIENCES
LIFE JUST OFF THE STREETS
Photographing The New York Squatter Community In The 1990s
flashbak.com
For years during the 1990s, squatter communities occupied over two dozen barely habitable abandoned buildings on the Lower East Side. Photographer Ash Thayer captured scenes from those communities.
NICE WORK, CALIFORNIA
The Most (And Least) Diverse Colleges In America
priceonomics.com
Stanford University, the top school in terms of diversity, is three times more diverse than the lowest ranking schools, Yeshiva University and SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry.
'IT WAS DEMEANING AND DEGRADING'
Life As A Woman In The Trucking Industry
maryreview.com
Age 55 at the time, Cathy Sellars set out to find a new profession, one that would offer her an independent lifestyle. She wasn't intimidated by the idea of maneuvering a 40-ton truck, sitting virtually immobile for hours at a time in a hulking pilot seat. What she wasn't ready for was everything else that would come with it.
BEFORE YOU GO
SMOOTH MOVE, MUKHAMETSHIN
This Guy's Parkour Moves Have Made Us Interested In Parkour Again
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The days when parkour ruled the world of internet videos are long past, but every once in a while a video comes along that reaffirms parkour's dopeness. This is one of them.
Now go backflip right over hump day.