Friday, July 15, 2016

The Therapist In Your Pocket

Your Therapist Is Typing...
Digg Editions
Morning · Fri, Jul 15
HELP PLS
Your Therapist Is Typing...
digg.com
Between guided mindfulness and text-based therapy, the world of mental health apps ranges from benevolently innocuous to a big, unregulated question mark.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
84 Dead After Truck Drives Into Crowd Celebrating Bastille Day In Nice, France
Newt Gingrich Calls For Tests For All US Muslims After Nice Attack
Tim Tebow And Peter Thiel To Speak At The Republican Convention
Meet Trump's Reported VP Pick, Governor Mike Pence
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PUZZLIN' EVIDENCE
WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK
NASA Is, For Sure, Covering Up UFO Activity, 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: What NASA doesn't want you to know about UFOs, a world where all drugs are legal and how poison ivy works.
THE TAMIR RICE STORY
How To Make A Police Shooting Disappear
gq.com
How does a 12-year-old boy with a toy gun on a playground get shot to death on-camera by the police without anyone getting charged? Put another way: How does a small group of government officials make this case disappear without a trial? Here's how.
YOU NEED TO MAKE IT DYNAMIC
You're Probably Stretching Wrong
qz.com
Although the American College of Sports Medicine recommends static stretching, or holding a pose that lengthens a muscle group, for 15 to 30 seconds three to five times at least twice a week, evidence to back up the benefits of this kind of stretching is pretty murky.
HIGH STANDARDS
The Whistleblowing Doctor Who Happened To Work On MKULTRA
thebigroundtable.com
An eminent physician did not hesitate to blast his colleagues for their ethical lapses. But was he in any position to criticize?
DEPENDS ON HOW YOU ROLL
Experts Finally Know How Much Weed Is In The Average Joint
nytimes.com
How much marijuana is in a typical joint? Believe it or not, the question has perplexed experts for years. A new study claims to have an accurate estimate based on federal arrest data, and it's less than regular users think.
CHILL, DUDE
Why Big Pharma Is Fighting Legal Weed
washingtonpost.com
People are actually using marijuana as medicine, and pharmacuetical companies don't like that.
BEFORE YOU GO
THE REAL L33T HAX0R
Watch As Elite Password Hacking Software Cracks Thousands Of Passwords In Seconds
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Dr. Mike Pound demonstrates how a password hacking hardware called "Beast" can make short work of your "strong" passwords.
Now go change your passwords — and then have a good weekend.

Thursday, July 14, 2016

Someone Else Was Born With Your Face, Sorry

Always Ready, Always There
Digg Editions
Morning · Thu, Jul 14
SILENT SUFFERING
Always Ready, Always There
fivethirtyeight.com
When service members die by suicide, their deaths look a lot like civilian suicides — the same people, the same risk predictors, and the same means.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Still No Explanation For Dallas Gunman's Honorable Discharge
Philando Castile's Family Releases Copy Of His Gun Permit
Beards Actually Carry Less Bacteria Than Clean-Shaven Faces
Russia Is Building A Nuclear Space Bomber
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It's Like 'Mr. Robot' But Real Life
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WHAT WE'RE READING THIS WEEK
WHAT WE'RE READING THIS WEEK
The New Prostitution Economy, And Other Great Stories
digg.com
The new world of sugar daddies and girlfriend experiences, the cheap drug test that's sending innocent people to jail, and more of the best long reads of the week.
KIDS THESE DAYS
LISTENING WHILE ROME BURNS
Are Headphones A Sign Of Social Decline?
newyorker.com
Is the ubiquity of headphones just another emblem of catastrophic social decline, edging us even deeper into narcissism and unsociability?
JUST LEAVE THEM A LOAN
Why Those Millennials With Tons Of Loans Won't Refinance
bloomberg.com
They don't trust the banks. And besides, a lower rate isn't always worth giving up flexibility.
'IT'S A BETTER DATING APP THAN TINDER'
The Social And Economic Impact Of 'Pokémon Go'
digg.com
It's only been out for five days and, yet, the popular game is still managing to impact markets and the ways we relate to one another.
WHO ARE YOU, REALLY?
You Are Surprisingly Likely To Have A Living Doppelganger
bbc.com
We live on a planet of over seven billion people, so surely someone else is bound to have been born with your face? It's a silly question with serious implications — and the answer is more complicated than you might think.
In The World Of Augmented Reality, Who Owns Your Digital Space?
psfk.com
When a virtual space overlaps a real-world space, then whose space is it, and who controls what is created as a result?
BEFORE YOU GO
'THIS IS ALSO OUR REALITY'
NBA Superstars Opened Last Night's ESPYs With Powerful Words On Police Violence And Enacting Change
digg.com
Lebron James, Carmelo Anthony, Chris Paul and Dwayne Wade called on all athletes to use their influence and abilities to bring real change into the world.

Wednesday, July 13, 2016

In The Future, All Drugs Are Legal

Nature's Hidden Order
Digg Editions
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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EVERYTHING IS LEGAL NOW!
HIGH-CONCEPT POLICY-MAKING
What Would Happen If All Drugs Were Legal?
digg.com
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
digg.com
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.