Life & Personal Interests: 7 of 10
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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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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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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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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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Uncovering Yerkes Observatory’s Forgotten Female Astronomers
It all started with a photo of Einstein.
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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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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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Google plans to test proxy scheme to hide IP addresses
Plan for Chrome echoes Apple iCloud Private Relay
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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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‘The book took me about a decade’: the 2023 Booker prize shortlisted writers on the stories behind their novels
From the paintings of Paula Rego to a Jamaican American childhood, the six novelists up for the UK’s most prestigious fiction prize share the inspirations behind their nominated books – and how they got them onto the page
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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.
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Raising a Reader: 5 Novel Ideas for Motivating Kids to Read
Turn reading from homework to a hobby with fun, engaging ideas for encouraging reading in kids and teens.
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How Can Writing Help With Self-Development?
Writing, when embraced as a daily practice, becomes a transformative force for self-improvement, mindfulness and sharing wisdom.
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You're never too old to start a business
Whether that's a good idea is another matter.
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Encryption services are sending the right message to the quantum codebreakers
Quantum computers may still be years away, but it’s prudent that end-to-end encryption providers are ramping up defences