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The Little-Known Company That Enables Worldwide Mass Surveillance
Internal Endace documents reveal the firm’s key role helping governments harvest vast amounts of data on private emails, chats, and browsing histories. By Ryan Gallagher, Nicky Hager.
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Why Capitalism Creates Pointless Jobs
It’s as if someone were out there making up pointless jobs just for the sake of keeping us all working. By David Graeber.
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The One Purpose We All Share in Life
Do you ever feel pressure to "find your purpose"? You don't need to stress. There's one purpose we all share, and it's easily accessible.
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One of the fastest growing fields in science still makes a lot of people very uncomfortable
The idea we can be anything we choose is “such an old-fashioned notion, with absolutely no backing whatsoever.” By Olivia Goldhill.
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Is your gut making you sick?
A gut full of diverse microbes – bacteria, viruses and fungi – is essential for a healthy mind and body. And evidence is growing that our modern diet, overuse of antibiotics and obsession with cleanliness are damaging the diversity of microbes that live in our guts, contributing to a range of conditions including depression, multiple sclerosis, obesity and rheumatoid arthritis. Microbes live in our guts, bodily fluids, cavities and skin. For every one of our human cells, there’s at least one of them.
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The Archdruid Report: Climate Change Activism: A Post-Mortem
"The only commitments any nation was willing to make amounted to slowing, at some undetermined point in the future, the rate at which the production of greenhouse gas pollutants is increasing. In the real world, meanwhile, enough greenhouse gases have already been dumped into the atmosphere to send the world’s climate reeling…" By John Michael Greer.
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Magical Photographs of Fireflies from Japan’s 2016 Summer
Each year when summer comes along, we all look forward to different things. Some of us head to the beach, others to the mountains for camping. Some look forward to the epicurean delights like watermelon and ice cones. But for a select group of photographers in Japan, Summer signals the arrival of fireflies.
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Coming Soon: Gut Bacteria That Actually Cure Your Disease
Everybody's talking about gut bacteria. Pick a disease or disorder, and somebody, somewhere, has said that a probiotic supplement—an over-the-counter, unregulated pill usually filled with a single strain of friendly gut bacteria—might cure it, whether it’s cancer, obsessive-compulsive disorder, or a yeast infection. But there’s very little evidence that probiotic supplements do any good. “There’s a lot of promise here but not a lot of proof yet,” said Cliff McDonald, associate director for science at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion.
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How China Took Center Stage in Bitcoin’s Civil War
A delegation of American executives flew to Beijing in April for a secret meeting at the Grand Hyatt hotel, just blocks from Tiananmen Square. They went to meet with the new kingmakers in what has become one of the grandest and strangest experiments in money the world has seen: the virtual currency known as Bitcoin. Against long odds, and despite an abstruse structure, in which supercomputers are said to mine the currency via mathematical formulas...
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How the food you eat affects your brain
When it comes to what you bite, chew and swallow, your choices have a direct and long-lasting effect on the most powerful organ in your body: your brain. So which foods cause you to feel so tired after lunch? Or so restless at night? Mia Nacamulli takes you into the brain to find out. Lesson by Mia Nacamulli, animation by Private Island.
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To Hell and Back: The Dark Side of Near Death Experiences
What happens after we die, and what becomes of us after we push through the mysterious boundary between life and death? By Brent Swancer.
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If climate scientists are in it for the money, they’re doing it wrong
One of the more unfortunate memes that makes an appearance whenever climate science is discussed is the accusation that, by hyping their results, climate scientists are ensuring themselves steady paychecks, and may even be enriching themselves.
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How Might Cell Phone Signals Cause Cancer?
An expert answers questions about what could happen at the cellular level after a report links radiofrequency signals to tumors in rats. The release of a study Friday linking cancer in rats to the type of radiation emitted by cell phones presents some of the strongest implications in more than two decades of research that higher doses of such signals could be linked to tumors in laboratory animals—unsettling news for billions of mobile phone users worldwide. Still missing, however, is a clear understanding of exactly how radiofrequency (RF) radiation used by mobile phones might create cellular-level changes that could lead to cancer.
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The Subtle Design Features That Make Cities Feel More Hostile
Think your city doesn’t like you? You’re right.
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Three ways to Whistle
Whistling can be a way to command attention, call a dog or carry a beautiful melody. Once you find your sweet spot, practice as often as possible to gain greater control over your tone and volume. However, not everyone can master the...
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Your brain does not process information and it is not a computer
Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer.
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Dear "Skeptics," Bash Homeopathy and Bigfoot Less, Mammograms and War More
I hate preaching to the converted. If you were Buddhists, I’d bash Buddhism. But you’re skeptics, so I have to bash skepticism. I’m a science journalist. I don’t celebrate science, I criticize it, because science needs critics more than cheerleaders. I point out gaps between scientific hype and reality. That keeps me busy, because, as you know, most peer-reviewed scientific claims are wrong.
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I Was Wrong About the Limits of Solar; PV Is Becoming Dirt Cheap.
The price of solar power is falling faster than many thought was possible. Harvard’s David Keith comes honest with us about solar power: “Facts have changed. I was wrong.” The unsubsidized electricity cost from industrial-scale solar PV in the most favorable locations is now well below $40 per megawatt-hour and could very easily be below $20 per megawatt-hour by 2020. Compared to other new sources of supply, this would be the cheapest electricity on the planet.
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People can judge relationships from short bursts of laughter
Pairs of friends laugh differently from pairs of strangers.
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The Religion With No Name
By Brian C. Muraresku
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Mystical Experiences Open a ‘Door of Perception’ in the Brain
Mystical experiences may occur when the brain’s inhibitory processes are suppressed, opening a “door of perception,” new research found. By Charles Q. Choi.
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Study finds a stark difference between organic, non-organic meat and milk
It’s long been a contentious debate: Is organic food really any better for you than non-organic food? Well, now those who are proponents of organic eating may have some proof—by way of the largest study of its kind to date.
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I Drilled a Hole in My Own Skull to Stay High Forever
Joe Mellen is a 76-year-old former beatnik who turned on, tuned in, dropped out, and used an electric drill to make a hole in his skull. By John Doran.
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Interactive
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By validating your tribe(s) into the Snapzu referral program (“Program”) you are choosing to be an Affiliate and you are agreeing to be bound by the following terms and conditions ("Terms of Service")
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Ian's Shoelace Site - Shoe Lacing Methods
Mathematics tells us that there are more than 2 Trillion ways of feeding a lace through the six pairs of eyelets on an average shoe. This section presents a fairly extensive election of 43 shoe lacing tutorials. They include traditional and alternative lacing methods that are either widely used, have a particular feature or benefit, or that I just like the look of.
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Spectacular Macro Shots of Underwater Corals
Los Angeles-based photographer Felix Salazar takes an up-close look at the mesmerizingly radiant colors and textures found in underwater corals. Normally we expect coral to be a plant-like marine life that is typically found in varying shades of pink (or coral), but there are a myriad of subclasses and orders to the living colonies that offer a much wider spectrum of color.
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This Is the Year’s Best Drone Photography
The winning images of an international competition include a selfie with sharks and sky-high views of famous cities and monuments.
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ShadyURL - Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening.
http://www.shadyurl.com/ or should I say http://www.5z8.info/worm.exe_j6a0kc_how-to-stop-immigration-for-good.pdf
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The Rock Restaurant, Zanzibar
The Rock restaurant just off shore in Zanzibar. As the sun set, I was taking photos of The Rock before going out there to have dinner. As the light levels dropped, the light came on in the restaurant and I knew I had my shot.
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Soy sauce spoiler alert: what westerners enjoy is the equivalent of boxed wine
Soy sauce aficionados outside south-east Asia will be disappointed to learn that the premium product is reserved for local consumers with more discerning taste