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Brown, red, black, riceberry: Which is the healthiest type of rice?
There are more than 40,000 varieties of cultivated rice. If you've ever wondered about the differences between all the colourful rices at the supermarket, here's a rundown.
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Editorial: Huntington Beach will let neighbors censor neighbors' reading choices. That's wrong.
Giving residents censorship rights over librarians and the public crosses a clear line that should never be breached.
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Infocom’s ingenious code-porting tools for Zork and other games have been found
The Z-machine allowed porting from mainframes to TRS-80, Apple II, and others.
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For Many Native Americans, Fry Bread Is Tasty, Nostalgic—and Complicated
Indigenous chefs and authors discuss the beloved and thorny legacy of the food.
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Human Beings Are Not Puppets, And We Should Probably Stop Acting Like They Are
A few years ago, we wrote about Joe Bernstein’s absolutely fantastic long read on how we’re probably all looking at the concept of disinformation wrong. As our title said, “most information on disi…
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The Department of Preparation: Thomas Smillie’s Photographic Survey of the Smithsonian (1890–1913)
A survey of the Smithsonian by the first curator of photography in the United States.
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Is Ghostwriting Ruining Literature?
Ghostwriting is a tradition that has been around since the 5th century, and has carried into the present day. But does it delegitimize a work?
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Privacy advocate challenges YouTube's ad blocking detection
Irish eyes may not be smiling
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Why return-to-office mandates fail
The question over whether to allow employees to work from home has been settled. Here’s the new normal.
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None of Your Photos Are Real
Tools like Google’s Pixel 8 AI photo editor are ushering in a deepening distrust of everything we see. Welcome to our new counterfeit reality.
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The Secret Meeting That Broke Our Food System
Did you know you can patent a living thing? Decades of lobbying made that possible. Now just four companies control the intellectual property behind nearly ALL of the food we eat. We call them the "Life Cartel" and we broke down their plot to privatize everything.
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Georgia Restaurant Goes Viral After Charging Parents a $50 Fee for Poorly Behaved Children
Is your child known to act up at dinner? You may want to avoid Toccoa Riverside Restaurant, as it charges an extra fee for poorly behaved children.
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7 Ways to Create Word-of-Mouth Marketing Online
What’s different with word-of-mouth marketing online? Well, no longer one human to another; instead it's one to many for a powerful biz tool!
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Google plans to test proxy scheme to hide IP addresses
Plan for Chrome echoes Apple iCloud Private Relay
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Cooking from clay tablets: Babylonian lamb stew
There are only three remaining ancient Babylonian culinary tablets, dated ca. 1750 BC and written in Akkadian. They reveal the world’s oldest known recipes. They are preserved in the Yale Babylonian Collection.
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A Brief History of Onions in America
TIL There are seventy species of wild onion native to North America.
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Major Study Claims to Identify The Root Cause of Obesity: Fructose
Fructose, a new paper proposes, is the pernicious little demon driving so many human metabolisms towards obesity.
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Sonia Delaunay: Wearable Art
The name Sonia Delaunay is synonymous with kaleidoscopic colours and prismatic designs that seem to splinter, shift and dance before our eyes. In a 60 year long career, her daring, vivid Simultaneisme encompassed paintings, textiles, fashion design, costume and interiors, making her one of the greatest pioneers of the Modernist era.
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Uncovering Yerkes Observatory’s Forgotten Female Astronomers
It all started with a photo of Einstein.
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Writing a Book? Going to Therapy Might Help With It
Sitting in front of your own words and confronting the depths of your brain can be incredibly draining.