Wednesday, May 3, 2017

So Comey Maybe

The United States is a very large country, and chances are you won't see most of it before you die. That is, unless you go on a road trip.
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Morning · Wed, May 03
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ARE WE THERE YET?
How To Plan The Best Road Trip Of Your Whole Dang Life
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The United States is a very large country, and chances are you won't see most of it before you die. That is, unless you go on a road trip.
IN NEED OF A PERMANENT VACATION
Can Anyone Repair National Lampoon's Devastated Brand?
vanityfair.com
The most recent attempts to revive the brand have resulted in direct-to-video movies, lawsuits, crippling debt and two prison sentences.
ON ANOTHER PLANE
The President's Secret Air Force
politico.com
Air Force One is just the public face of a fleet that keeps the president safe and secure.
A GIANT 'FRAGILE' STICKER
How To Ship A Giant Space Telescope
theatlantic.com
How exactly do you transport a giant, two-decades-in-the-making telescope worth billions of dollars?
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DESIGNER GOODS
TROUBLED WATER
The Plan To Build A Million-Year Nuclear Waste Dump On The Great Lakes
motherboard.vice.com
How to future-proof an underground vault long after we are gone.
PROBABLY GETS A LOT OF 'MCLOVIN' JOKES
There Is A Fake IDGod, And He Lives In China
melmagazine.com
In the age of the internet, the classic teen rite of passage has never been easier.
IOS 10/10
Lazy Designer Takes Poster Request Extremely Literally, Creates The Perfect Poster
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Sometimes getting a project done right is as simple as asking the right questions.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
HOLY CRAP
Insane Dash Cam Footage Captures Small Plane Crashing
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Somehow the pilot survived this fiery crash in Mukilteo, Washington on Tuesday, and nobody was injured.
IN THE NEWS
Trump Administration Signaling Plan To Leave Paris Climate Deal, And Other Trump News From Today
Comey Is Expected To Face Tough Questioning At Senate Hearing
Officers Won't Be Charged In Alton Sterling's Shooting Death In Baton Rouge
Here's The First Trailer For 'The Dark Tower'
...And For Marvel's 'The Defenders'
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The 14 Best Smart Home Gadgets For Under $100
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Voice-activated mood lighting, smoke alarms that won't go off every time you make bacon,  and 12 other smart-home gadgets that won't blow your budget. Oh yeah, and they're all on Amazon.
Sometimes it's easy and sometimes it's rough, but we're stuck in this road trip called life, so buckle up.

Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Tastes More Like Chicken

Can virtual reality really soothe pain? Jo Marchant meets the doctors who say yes, and who hope this is a solution to the country consuming 80 percent of the world's opioid supply: the United States of America.
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Morning · Tue, May 02
ANOTHER WORLD
'I FORGOT ABOUT MY PAIN'
Virtual Reality Might Actually Be Able To Break America's Opioid Epidemic
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Can virtual reality really soothe pain? Jo Marchant meets the doctors who say yes, and who hope this is a solution to the country consuming 80 percent of the world's opioid supply: the United States of America.
NO INNER-TUBING, PLEASE
The Boiling River Of The Amazon
atlasobscura.com
Hidden in the dense jungle of the Peruvian Amazon is a percolating, roiling river. The steaming turquoise waters that can reach up to 200 degrees Fahrenheit are guided by ivory-colored stones and guarded by 60-foot walls of lush forest and vegetation.
A NEVER-AIRED TV PILOT?
WATCH: We Don't Know Where This Weird Show With Aubrey Plaza And Nathan Fillion Came From, But We're Glad It Exists
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​On Monday, a Reddit post popped up saying it contained a "Never-aired TV Pilot featuring Aubrey Plaza and Nathan Fillion." And when we looked into it, we couldn't find the video anywhere else. But here we are, so enjoy.
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A LIFESTYLE CHANGE
DO YOU EVEN REDBRO?
The Quest For A Tastier Chicken
nytimes.com
Responding to a large demand from Whole Foods and its ilk, Purdue is experimenting with slow growth chickens.
LOVE KNOWS NO BOUNDS?
The FBI Translator Who Went Rogue And Married An ISIS Terrorist
cnn.com
In 2014, Daniela Green, a FBI translator with a top-secret security clearance, traveled to Syria — and married a key ISIS operative she had been assigned to investigate.
LET HIM CAST THE FIRST 'YOU'RE FIRED'
How Trump Could Get Fired
newyorker.com
The Constitution offers two main paths for removing a President from office. How feasible are they?
COVERING THE SPREAD
The Future Of Football
sbnation.com
Football as we know it is done, because the lawyers are here.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
A JOINT EFFORT
This Guy's Detachable Thumb Tricks Are Mind-Bending
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"Yeah, yeah" you say, "I know how the thumb trick works." And you probably do, but you've also probably never seen it with this dude's level of execution.
IN THE NEWS
Police Admit Car Was Driving Away When They Shot Black Teen Driver In Texas
Republicans Once Again Scrambling For Votes To Pass Obamacare Repeal In House
Fyre Fest's Absurd Pitch Deck Leaked
Man Who Claimed To Be 146 Dies In Indonesia
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These Smartwatches Were Designed In France, So You Know They Look Good
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It may only be Tuesday, but at least you aren't floating in a boiling river right now.

Monday, May 1, 2017

Join The Juice Truth Movement

"We will only know the true consequences of our time in the water 20 years from now."
Digg Editions
Morning · Mon, May 01
FAR OUT, MAN
OVER TROUBLED WATER
Fukushima's Surfers Riding On Radioactive Waves
aljazeera.com
"We will only know the true consequences of our time in the water 20 years from now."
SHIFTING THE OVERTON WINDOW
Beyond Alt: Understanding The New Far Right
nymag.com
Coming to grips with the most potent political movement of our age, the extremely reactionary, burn-it-down radical, new-fangled far right.
LET'S GO ON A TRIP
The Acid Aesthetic: A Brief History of Psychedelic Design
printmag.com
When tracing the history of groovy patterns and far-out typography, the Doors of Perception don't always open onto the 1960s.
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MISCALCULATED
BERNIE SHOULDA, COULDA, WOULDA WON
The Mismeasure Of Media
thebaffler.com
Here we go again: It's the umpteenth media jeremiad on the great text known as Election 2016, in which we are schooled on the fatal consequences of the incorrigible out-of-touchness of our political press.
JUICING THE NUMBERS
People Think Juice Is Good For Them. They're Wrong.
washingtonpost.com
At first glance, it is reasonable to think that juice has health benefits. Whole fruit is healthy, and juice comes from fruit, so it must be healthy, too. But when you make juice, you leave some of the most wholesome parts of the fruit behind.
QUITE A CURVEBALL
How A Cocktail Napkin In 1974 Changed The Course Of Republican Economics
qz.com
The sealing of America's fiscal fate began in 1974, over cocktails.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
BUZZ OFF
Gator Latches Onto Electric Eel And Gets Far More Than It Bargained For
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Gators don't mess around, but electric eels mess around even less.
IN THE NEWS
Trump Invites Authoritarian Philippines Leader To Visit White House, And Other Trump News From Today
1 Dead And 6 Wounded After San Diego Pool Shooting
Congress Reportedly Agrees To $1 Trillion Budget Deal — With No Funding For Border Wall
Embattled Trump Aide Sebastian Gorka To Leave White House
You've got this...easy like Monday morning, right?