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Trix: A rich text editor for everyday writing
Compose beautifully formatted text in your web application. Trix is an editor for writing messages, comments, articles, and lists—the simple documents most web apps are made of. It features a sophisticated document model, support for embedded attachments, and outputs terse and consistent HTML.
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The real Goldfinger: the London banker who broke the world
The true story of how the City of London invented offshore banking – and set the rich free
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How to Be Better at Parties
People love to party! Well, at least some of them do. For the rest of us, parties bring on waves of feelings, good and bad, much like the events themselves. Here's everything you've ever wanted to know about being the hit of the party.
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Research shows that knowingly taking placebos can be highly beneficial
On Amazon, you can shell out about $15 to buy pills made of cellulose, titanium dioxide, gelatin, and dye. None of these ingredients have any medical effect, but customers report taking these pills for pain relief, to reduce excessive sweating, and even to quit smoking. It’s not surprising, really. Medical quackery has a long and proud history, and so long as there’s gullible people, there will be somebody selling snake oil. But here’s the rub: Right on the bottle, in big, blue letters is the word “placebo.” The only claim the manufacturer makes about these pills is that they are guaranteed not to contain any kind of medicine.
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Altered Intestinal Microbiota with Increased Abundance of Prevotella Is Associated with High Risk...
Alterations in gut microbiota are postulated to be an etiologic factor in the pathogenesis of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). To determine whether IBS patients in China exhibited differences in their gut microbial composition, fecal samples were collected from diarrhea-predominant IBS (IBS-D) and healthy controls
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Is this Japanese concept the secret to a long, happy, meaningful life?
Finding your everyday reason for living, or ikigai, could lead to a longer and better life.
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Why emergency braking systems sometimes hit parked cars and lane dividers
Recent Tesla Autopilot crashes hold a lesson for the whole industry.
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Beijing Wants to Rewrite the Rules of the Internet
Xi Jinping wants to wrest control of global cyber governance from the market economies of the west.
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Early source of irritable bowel syndrome discovered
MSU scientists have identified an early cause of intestinal inflammation, one of the first stages of inflammatory bowel disease and irritable bowel syndrome, which afflict around 11 percent of the world’s population.
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3 Arguments Why Marijuana Should Stay Illegal Reviewed
We take a fair look at some of the best counter arguments for legalization and see how they hold up in review.
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Don’t believe the hype: We’re a long way from 5G
There’s a host of reasons why we won’t see 5G roll out in production anytime soon.
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The Trust Machine: The Story of Bitcoin
Explains how Bitcoin works for general audiences without skipping the key technical insight. Covers money, value, gold, blockchain & proof of work.
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Human race just 0.01% of all life but has eradicated most other living things
Groundbreaking assessment of all life on Earth reveals humanity’s surprisingly tiny part in it as well as our disproportionate impact
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My Own Personal Nothingness
From a childhood hallucination to the halls of theoretical physics. By Alan Lightman.
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What is the best diet for humans? | Eran Segal |
Exploring human diets in a different way.
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What are the fastest DNS providers?
Cloudflare is only the latest company to provide free, fast, and secure Domain Name System services. Here's how the major DNS resolvers perform on the internet race track.
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The Gut Digest
A new site jam packed with all manner of interesting tidbits on the human GI tract.
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How Big Wireless Made Us Think That Cell Phones Are Safe: A Special Investigation
The disinformation campaign—and massive radiation increase—behind the 5G rollout.
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Is everything you think you know about depression wrong?
In this extract from his new book, Johann Hari, who took antidepressants for 14 years, calls for a new approach
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Mastodon makes the internet feel like home again
I have been using the open source Twitter competitor for almost a year, and I love it.
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The Book That Made Me a Feminist Was Written by an Abuser
‘The Mists of Avalon’ changed my life—how do I reconcile that with what I now know about its author? By Jessica Jernigan.
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Secret Link Uncovered Between Pure Math and Physics
Mathematics is full of weird number systems that most people have never heard of and would have trouble even conceptualizing. But rational numbers are familiar. They’re the counting numbers and the fractions—all the numbers you’ve known since elementary school. But in mathematics, the simplest things are often the hardest to understand. They’re simple like a sheer wall, without crannies or ledges or obvious properties you can grab ahold of.
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Here's Why You Should Never Throw Out Those Annoying Silica Sachets Again
Anyone who's ever bought a new electronic device or pair of shoes will be all too familiar with those little "DO NOT EAT" sachets that come in the box. These free sachets can be really useful.
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I’m a Depression historian. The GOP tax bill is straight out of 1929.
Republicans are again sprinting toward an economic cliff.
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Decoding the music masterpieces: Bach’s Six Solo Cello Suites
Johann Sebastian Bach was 30 when he became head of music in Anhalt-Cöthen, in what is now Germany. Here he started an uncharted experiment in classical music: solo works for string instruments.
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The Little Black Box That Took Over Piracy
The Kodi box pitch is hard to resist. A little black plastic square, in look not much different from a Roku or Apple TV, and similar in function as well. This streamer, though, offers something those others never will: Free access to practically any show or movie you can dream of. No rental fees. No subscriptions. Just type in the name of a blockbuster, and start watching a high-definition stream in seconds.
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Warning of 'ecological Armageddon' after dramatic plunge in insect numbers
The abundance of flying insects has plunged by three-quarters over the past 25 years, according to a new study that has shocked scientists. Insects are an integral part of life on Earth as both pollinators and prey for other wildlife and it was known that some species such as butterflies were declining. But the newly revealed scale of the losses to all insects has prompted warnings that the world is “on course for ecological Armageddon”, with profound impacts on human society.
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Six Horrifying Parasites (That Could Be Inside You Right Now)
Warning: Gross pics contained within. By Leanne Louie.
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Monsanto’s dirty dozen.
When you take a moment to reflect on the history of product development at Monsanto, what do you find? Here are twelve products that Monsanto has brought to market. (2011)
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This Tiny Country Feeds the World
The Netherlands has become an agricultural giant by showing what the future of farming could look like.
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