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How to Make Students Care About Writing
Pirette McKamey, a veteran English teacher, spent 30 years investigating what helps young people to view themselves as writers.
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Your chicken's salmonella problem is worse than you think
And cooking the shit out of it won't necessarily protect you.
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Can liberals please work out how to win back the working class?
I’m taking a pause from journalism – while I’m gone, can someone please work out how to win back the working class? By Thomas Frank.
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Millions 'worse off' than 15 years ago
Millions of "just about managing" families are no better off today than those in 2003, new research from the Resolution Foundation indicates. The remarkable income stagnation for so many reveals that the economy has been failing to generate income for people over many years despite record levels of people in work. In 2003, households on the lower half of incomes typically earnt £14,900.
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We Banned Holocaust Deniers From Our History Subreddit. Here’s Why Facebook Should Do the Same.
There can be no debate with Holocaust deniers. That is a core principle of moderating the AskHistorians subreddit, one of the largest history forums on the internet—and a crucial lesson Mark Zuckerberg seemingly does not understand. Zuckerberg got into hot water on Wednesday when he stated that Facebook wouldn’t necessarily remove Holocaust deniers from its platform because people “get things wrong” and because it’s not always possible to understand the deniers’ intent.
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Putin’s Attack on the U.S. Is Our Pearl Harbor
Make no mistake: Hacking the 2016 election was an act of war. It’s time we responded accordingly. By Mark Hertling, Molly K. McKew.
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Same brand of pasta, but Europeans get gluey mush in 1 country, proper Durum in another
Sometimes, when you move from one country to another, things look, even taste, different. That was Ilya Kunes's experience when he moved back to the Czech Republic from France. Things definitely tasted different. Even the same famous brand of Italian spaghetti he had bought in France. That seemed odd. He checked. His Czech-bought spaghetti contained a far smaller percentage of expensive Durum wheat than the French variety.
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“I Was Devastated”: The Man Who Created the World Wide Web Has Some Regrets Social
“For people who want to make sure the Web serves humanity, we have to concern ourselves with what people are building on top of it,” Tim Berners-Lee told me one morning in downtown Washington, D.C., about a half-mile from the White House. Berners-Lee was speaking about the future of the Internet, as he does often and fervently and with great animation at a remarkable cadence.
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The 96-Year-Old Brooklyn Judge Standing Up to the Supreme Court
A 96-year-old federal judge in Brooklyn had a “Hey, kids, get off my lawn” moment this week. The kids in question: the United States Supreme Court. The (metaphorical) lawn: the public’s power to hold the police accountable for misconduct and abuse. In a spirited decision issued Monday, the judge, Jack B. Weinstein, argued that the justices had gone too far in a pair of recent rulings expanding qualified immunity, a legal doctrine that protects law-enforcement officers from being sued for actions they perform on the job. Judge Weinstein complained that the broadened doctrine now protects “all but the plainly incompetent.”
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There’s actually lots of evidence of Trump-Russia collusion
The untenability of the "no collusion" talking point.
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Why Children Aren't Behaving, And What You Can Do About It
A new book argues that children are less disciplined than ever. Author Katherine Reynolds Lewis identifies several culprits and says there are several things parents, teachers and caregivers can do.
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Marijuana Compound Removes Toxic Alzheimer's Protein From The Brain
An active compound in marijuana called tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) has been found to promote the removal of toxic clumps of amyloid beta protein in the brain, which are thought to kickstart the progression of Alzheimer's disease.
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Hundreds of Apps Can Empower Stalkers to Track Their Victims
KidGuard is a phone app that markets itself as a tool for keeping tabs on children. But it has also promoted its surveillance for other purposes and run blog posts with headlines like “How to Read Deleted Texts on Your Lover’s Phone.” A similar app, mSpy, offered advice to a woman on secretly monitoring her husband. Still another, Spyzie, ran ads on Google alongside results for search terms like “catch cheating girlfriend iPhone.”
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Germany's Attempt to Fix Facebook Is Backfiring
Right-wing politicians are pouncing on an ambitious law seeking to curb hate speech online. By Linda Kinstler.
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How Baby Boomers Broke America
Lately, most Americans, regardless of their political leanings, have been asking themselves some version of the same question: How did we get here? How did the world’s greatest democracy and economy become a land of crumbling roads, galloping income inequality, bitter polarization and dysfunctional government?
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Do Fathers Who Exercise Have Smarter Babies?
Exercise changes the brains and sperm of male mice in ways that later boost the thinking skills of their offspring. Could the same be true of men?
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Why I Left The U.S. 20 Years Ago... And Why I Won't Be Coming Back
The American dream was supposed to bring me happiness, but I realized I had been betrayed.
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'Dear Mark, this is why I hate you.' An open letter to Zuckerberg
"Unless I go full tin-foil hat, you’ve basically left me with one option. To opt out of Facebook’s tracking, I’m going to have to join Facebook"
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One of Europe's Greatest Treasures Hides in a Sleepy French Village
Conques was never supposed to be found. Or at least, not easily. The sleepy village had been presiding over the French Pyrénées mountains since the 7th century, when a monk named Dadon decided it would make the perfect place for sacred hermitage. Not only was the valley close to a legendary Roman spring, but it was nearly impossible to reach without a lot of grit and motivation, making it the perfect resting place for one of Europe’s grandest treasures…
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Older Americans Are ‘Hooked’ on Vitamins
Sixty-eight percent of those 65 and older take vitamin supplements. Much of what we once believed about the benefits is wrong.
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Tired of Netflix? Here’s where to find free, legal movies online
You don't need to spend money to have a fun movie night at home, and you don't even need Netflix. Check out our list of the best free websites for streaming free movies online.
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The Glory That Was Yahoo
For one brief shining moment, Yahoo was the king of all it surveyed. Then everything went to hell.
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Alzheimer's disease reversed in mice, offering hope for humans, new research shows
Amyloid plaques largely disappeared with the deletion of just a single enzyme.
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New Blood Test For Alzheimer's Is So Precise It Could Predict It 30 Years Ahead
Scientists have developed a new blood test where a tiny drop of blood could be enough to predict the onset of Alzheimer's – and that would mean better care and preventative measures could be taken much earlier.
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The Republicans’ Fake Investigations
The attack on our firm, Fusion GPS, is a diversionary tactic by Republicans who don’t want to investigate Donald Trump’s ties to Russia.
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New Zealand's latest police recruitment ad goes viral
An advertisement that shows the diversity of the force – and a cheeky sense of humour – has been released by New Zealand police
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How to Tell If You’re a Jerk
Here’s something you probably didn’t do this morning: Look in the mirror and ask, am I a jerk? It seems like a reasonable question. There are, presumably, genuine jerks in the world. And many of those jerks, presumably, have a pretty high moral opinion of themselves, or at least a moderate opinion of themselves. They don’t think of themselves as jerks, because jerk self-knowledge is hard to come by.
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Frontline: Putin's Revenge (part 1)
FRONTLINE tells the inside story of how Vladimir Putin came to see the United States as an enemy — and why he decided to target an American election.
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Being a Funeral Director Made Me Realize the Death Industry is Too Exclusive
Americans might have a healthier attitude toward death if people like me didn’t keep it so hidden from view. By Caleb Wilde.
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Just Deserts
Some seventy-two years from the last American execution for desertion, the firing squad is a tough-guy pantomime for hacks and hams. By Jay Baron Nicorvo.