Friday, March 2, 2018

Now Don't Make Any Rasher Decisions

​Welcome to What We Learned This Week, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: Yeah, bacon is bad for your health, one man hacked the lottery and tiny red dots are ruining our lives.
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A BROKEN SYSTEM
WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK
Bacon Still Causes Cancer, And Other Facts
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​Welcome to What We Learned This Week, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: Yeah, bacon is bad for your health, one man hacked the lottery and tiny red dots are ruining our lives.
THE HOUSE DOESN'T ALWAYS WIN
The Lottery Hackers
highline.huffingtonpost.com
Jerry Selbee has always had an eye for puzzles and spotting patterns — which is how he discovered a lottery loophole that would eventually make he and his wife millionaires.
A GILDED PRISON
Why I Quit Google To Work For Myself
mtlynch.io
Two years in, I loved Google. When the annual employee survey asked me whether I expected to be at Google in five years, it was a no-brainer. But that wasn't what happened.
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This Clothing Hack Replaces Your Old-School Collar Stays
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The Fashion Anchor is a super-strong adhesive dot that keeps your collar (or tie or dress or pocket square) exactly where you want it. With a formula specifically designed for clothing, the Fashion Anchor is 14x stronger than tape and 100% fabric safe.
WE'D LIKE TO THANK THE ACADEMY
THE GOOD NEWS FOR 'GET OUT'
Could There Be Another Oscars Upset? Here's What Our Data Says
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Psst, we've got a treasure trove of internet data here at Digg. We dug through it to see if Oscars predictions missed something about "Moonlight" last year — and what that says about this year
HARNESSING THE GROUP MIND
Here's How Everyone Else Is Predicting The Big Six Oscars Categories For 2018
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Best Picture, Best Director and all the acting categories were easy to call last year (with one big exception, of course). What do the internet's critics and experts think this year?
THEY KNOW WHEN YOU'RE SLEEPING
THEY'RE ALWAYS WATCHING
The Powerful Global Spy Alliance You Never Knew Existed
theintercept.com
Documents shine light on a secretive coalition that eavesdrops on communications in countries across the world.
'MAN, WHAT DID I DO?'
The Trouble With Stopping A Teenage Killer Before They Kill
theoutline.com
Josh Pillault was 19 when the U.S. government accused him of being a domestic terrorist.
YES, JUST LIKE 'NIGHTCRAWLER'
Riding Along With A Night Stringer, Chasing Car Crashes For Local News
gizmodo.com
Adam is what's known in local news as a stringer: the photographers and videographers that cruise the city documenting accidents, crimes, disasters of all sizes in the hopes of selling their footage to media outlets faster than their competitors.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
THEY'RE TAKING OVER ANY DAY NOW
Cats Are Smart As Hell, In Case You Ever Doubted Their Intelligence
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"I am a smart, independent cat, and I don't need no humans to rescue my brethren."
IN THE NEWS
Markets Continue To Slide After Trump's Tariff Announcement
Nor'easter Set To Slam East Coast With Severe Winds, Rain And Flooding
Earliest Ancient Egyptian Tattoos Found On Mummies
FBI Counterintel Is Investigating Ivanka Trump Business Deal In Vancouver
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Thank god it's Friday, Nor'easter or not.