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CHOCOLATE POLISH GRZANKA
Try this in cold winter evenings and every night will be magic ;)
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Did Finland's free money experiment work?
Finland has just completed a major basic income experiment where 2,000 unemployed people were given €560 (£490) a month for two years, instead of their unemployment benefit. The basic income was paid with no strings attached. Recipients weren't required to seek or accept jobs but still received the payment if they found a job. The Finnish government wanted to see if this financial incentive encouraged people to get jobs or start businesses.
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Finland's Universal Basic Income Had a Surprise Effect on People's Beliefs
inland has completed a major trial into the effects of a basic income, and the preliminary results are positive. Recipients felt happier, less stressed, trusted politicians more, and even felt more comfortable on the same levels of income as people that did not receive a basic income. “The findings are broadly positive, but there are still a lot of unanswered questions,” Luke Martinelli, a research associate from the Institute for Policy Research at the University of Bath, tells Inverse.
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Universal income study finds money for nothing won’t make us work less
For the last two years the Finnish government has been giving 2000 unemployed people a guaranteed, no-strings-attached payment each month. It is the world’s most robust test of universal basic income, and the preliminary results, released this morning, seem to dispel some of the doubts about the policy’s negative impacts.
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Is ruling in the genes? All presidents bar one are directly descended from a medieval English king
What do Barack Obama, Thomas Jefferson, George W. Bush and the other past U.S. presidents have in common? Besides holding the coveted title of commander-in-chief, it appears that all of them but one are cousins. The remarkable discovery was made by 12-year-old BridgeAnne d’Avignon, of Salinas, California, who created a ground-breaking family tree that connected 42 of 43 U.S. presidents to one common, and rather unexpected, ancestor: King John of England.
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Fyre Festival victim recoups more than $100,000 in GoFundMe donations after scam
A Bahamian caterer who accepted a "good faith contract" with the fraudulent Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland to prep thousands of meals and provide lodging for VIP partygoers -- and found herself cooking without pay for stranded festival patrons -- has raised more than $100,000 through a GoFundMe campaign. Maryann Rolle, proprietor of the Exuma Point Bar and Grille, near the site of the disastrous Fyre Festival, said she dipped into her life's savings to pay workers who labored around the clock -- even though she herself never saw a dime.
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Europe has made a political decision to go into recession
It looks like Europe is heading into recession, multiple economists say. Germany and Italy may already be in "technical recession." The tragedy is that the contraction is being helped along by a deliberate political choice made by Europe's own governments: Their effort to rein in deficit spending, to cut fiscal stimulus, and to balance their budgets in the 10-year aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. "Austerity," as it's known, has shrunk the potential size of the European economy and retarded its ability to grow again.
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Richard Rorty’s prescient warnings for the American left
This liberal philosopher predicted Trump’s rise in 1998 — and he has another warning for the left. By Sean Illing. (Jan. 12, 2018)
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What Happened When A White Cop Decided Not to Shoot a Black Man
A shocking story of police and lethal force. Just not the one you might expect. By Joe Sexton.
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How a future Trump Cabinet member gave a serial sex abuser the deal of a lifetime
Palm Beach multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein was accused of sexually abusing dozens of underage girls. Prosecutors, including future Trump labor secretary Alexander Acosta, cut Epstein an extraordinary plea deal. By Emily Michot, Julie K. Brown.
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The Case for Mediocracy
by Thomas R. Wells Suppose a company wants to fill a job. They would advertise it together with the requirements for any successful candidate. HR would screen out all the applicants not good enough to do the job and everyone e Perhaps you…
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The Ten Hardest Cars To Work On
Get your hydraulic lifts ready and prepare to drop some engines: these are the hardest cars to service you'll ever come across.
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The video game that helped me understand my grandma's dementia
When my friend Kenny's nana died of dementia, he'd already mourned her twice. The first time, he was shopping for her birthday present. He'd settled on a watch, but didn't know what kind, what brand or how much he should spend. He considered the expensive option, the watch he thought she deserved, but then he remembered: His nana had dementia. Usually she'd try and return presents, convinced others had left them behind.
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Apple Will Keep Throttling iPhones. Here's How to Stop It
While it seemed like the iPhone 8, 8 Plus, and X might avoid the practice, Apple now says it will trottle them as well.
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A neuroscientist who studies motivation and behavior found there are 7 factors that can help you...
You can painstakingly show somebody tons of bulletproof evidence and present flawless logical arguments but often they still won’t change their mind. What gives? The problem is that the human brain is not a purely rational computer. And when we ignore that, even the best of efforts to convince others can fall flat.
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How Exercise Might "Clean" the Alzheimer's Brain
Hints at potential treatments for age-related dementia and memory loss
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How White Boy Rick Went From FBI Informant To Detroit Druglord By Age 16
Richard Wershe Jr. was arrested in his home in 1988 with 17 pounds of cocaine. He was 17-years-old. Reporters and the police broadcast the young, baby-face all over the news with headlines that called him the leader of a drug cartel. Wershe, the police claimed, was a dangerous cocaine godfather known to his underlings as “White Boy Rick”.
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Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information
Last week, I ran an ad on Facebook that was targeted at a computer science professor named Alan Mislove. Mislove studies how privacy works on social networks and had a theory that Facebook is letting advertisers reach users with contact information collected in surprising ways. I was helping him test the theory by targeting him in a way Facebook had previously told me wouldn’t work. I directed the ad to display to a Facebook account connected to the landline number for Alan Mislove’s office, a number Mislove has never provided to Facebook. He saw the ad within hours.
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Why I’m done with Chrome
This blog is mainly reserved for cryptography, and I try to avoid filling it with random 512px-Google_Chrome_icon_(September_2014).svg“someone is wrong on the Internet” posts. After all, that’s what Twitter is for! But from time to time something bothers me enough that I have to make an exception. Today I wanted to write specifically about Google Chrome, how much I’ve loved it in the past, and why — due to Chrome’s new user-unfriendly forced login policy — I won’t be using it going forward.
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Scholar who decoded “Primary Colors” unmasks author of Times op-ed
Professor who outed Joe Klein in 1996: Detailed analysis narrows the list of administration suspects — down to one. By Don Foster.
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No, I Will Not Debate You
Civility will never defeat fascism, no matter what The Economist thinks. By Laurie Penny.
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The inescapable weight of my $100,000 student debt
The long read: MH Miller left university with a journal full of musings on Virginia Woolf and a vast financial burden. He is one of 44 million US graduates struggling to repay a total of $1.4tn. Were they right to believe their education was ‘priceless’?
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Why Is College in America So Expensive?
The outrageous price of a U.S. degree is unique in the world.
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Infectious Theory of Alzheimer's Disease Draws Fresh Interest
Money has poured into Alzheimer's research, but until very recently not much of it went toward investigating infection in causing dementia. A million dollar prize may lead more scientists to try.
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Everything You Should Do Before—And After—You Lose Your Phone
IT'S AN UNFORTUNATE fact that the pricey pocket computers we carry around with us at all times are prime targets for thieves—as well as very easy to leave behind in subway cars or on coffee shop tables. Now that we all rely on our smartphones for so much, having one stolen or misplaced can feel like the end of the world. But it doesn't have to be, not quite. Here are the preparations you can take before the worst happens, and what to do if it does.
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Adopting Mediterranean diet in old age can prolong life, study suggests
It’s been touted as the recipe for a healthy life, preventing all manner of ills. Now researchers say a Mediterranean diet still offers benefits in older age and could reduce the risk of death. While somewhat nebulous in specific makeup, the diet is typically said to be rich in fish, nuts, fresh vegetables, olive oil and fruit.
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The 50 Best New Board Games
Sure, the classic board games like Monopoly, Risk, and Battleship are still great fun. But the number of new games has exploded in the last several years as designers dream up space adventures, deck-building sagas, and zombie survival games. So order a pizza, invite over one to three friends, and try out the best board games released this year.
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The Koch Brothers Commissioned a Survey of Americans and Found Most Like a $15 Minimum Wage, Free...
Where the Koch brothers see government tyranny, most Americans see common-sense solutions to basic problems, it turns out. Nick Surgey, Zaid Jilani.
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Anything that isn’t welfare for the rich is now ‘socialism’
George Pyle, the editorial page editor of The Salt Lake Tribune, doesn’t think of himself as a socialist because it sounds like being social.
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99-Year-Old Nuremberg Prosecutor Calls Trump's Detention of Children a 'Crime Against...
The last surviving prosecutor at the Nazi Nuremberg trials just offered harsh criticism for the Trump administration's family separation crisis resulting from its cruel immigration policies, calling it "a crime against humanity." Ninety-nine year old Ben Ferencz made the comments in a recent lengthy interview with United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, which was posted online Tuesday.
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