Post Overview
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Analysis
6 years ago+32 32 0 x 1Finland’s Basic Income Pilot Was Never Really A Universal Basic Income
Much has been made of the end of the Nordic country’s experiment with giving some of its residents cash, but the program was actually a conservative welfare program that doesn’t say anything about the true UBI experiments in the works around the worl ...
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6 years ago+33 33 0 x 1Third of early deaths could be prevented by everyone giving up meat, Harvard says
At least one-third of early deaths could be prevented if everyone moved to a vegetarian diet, Harvard scientists have calculated.
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Current Event
6 years ago+18 18 0Trump Tower is on fire in Azerbaijani capital Baku
A skyscraper that was slated to become a Trump International Hotel in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku has caught fire. The Azadliq newspaper reported that the blaze broke out on the middle floors of the 33-storey building, which is locally known as T ...
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Current Event
6 years ago+18 18 0Infant Deaths Fall Sharply in Africa With Routine Antibiotics
Providing one dose every six months saved one in four babies, researchers reported. Now the W.H.O. will consider recommending routine use.
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Current Event
6 years ago+17 17 0Disney made a jacket to simulate physical experiences, like a snake slithering across your body
Disney Research, MIT Media Lab, and Carnegie Mellon University have unveiled a new conceptual haptic “force jacket” that simulates physical experiences to people wearing the device. The force jacket is lined with airbags controlled by a computer that ...
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Analysis
6 years ago+14 14 0One in three heart surgeons refuse difficult operations to avoid poor mortality ratings, survey shows
At least one in three heart surgeons has refused to treat critically ill patients because they are worried it will affect their mortality ratings if things go wrong.
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Expression
6 years ago+32 32 0 x 1Fake media is coming for our memories
Doctored photos can easily create false memories. What happens when there’s fake video?
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Current Event
6 years ago+18 18 0CBC is destroying its broadcast archives after they’re digitized
A charitable foundation asked CBC for time to find a storage space for the archive, but was turned down.
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Analysis
6 years ago+12 12 0Thinking in a second language drains the imagination of vividness
It is fascinating to wonder how these effects might play out in the real world, particularly in international politics. By Christian Jarrett
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How-to
6 years ago+11 11 0How founders can write a quality blog post in 1 hour
We all need traffic. Targeted traffic to our sites that'll convert. SEO, PPC ads, organic social media posts, blogs, email newsletters, a culture manifesto — you name it, content must be produced. For us, content has been a major cornerstone of ...
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Analysis
6 years ago+21 21 0San Francisco’s Big Seismic Gamble
The city’s building code does not protect its people from earthquakes nearly as much as you might think.
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Analysis
6 years ago+19 19 0Blowing in the wind: Plutonium at former nuclear weapons site
As crews demolished a shuttered nuclear weapons plant during 2017 in central Washington, specks of plutonium were swept up in high gusts and blown miles across a desert plateau above the Columbia River.
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Expression
6 years ago+31 31 0 x 2'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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Expression
6 years ago+24 24 0Opinion | How Sky Diving Cured My Depression
It completely changed my relationship with fear, which had become a very regular part of my daily life through the depressed period.
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Expression
6 years ago+23 23 0User Privacy Isn't Solely a Facebook Issue
During Congressional hearings about Facebook’s data practices in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica fiasco, Mark Zuckerberg drew an important distinction between what we expect from our Internet service providers (ISPs, such as Comcast or Verizon) a ...
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Analysis
6 years ago+12 12 0Robot dog lends a helping paw to dementia sufferers
Among Ron Grantham's happiest memories are the days he spent fly-fishing with his beloved dog, Spot. Now those memories are being revived by visits from his new best friend, Biscuit - a robotic dog.
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Video/Audio
6 years ago+28 28 0 x 1Incredibles 2 Official Trailer
In “Incredibles 2,” Helen (voice of Holly Hunter) is called on to lead a campaign to bring Supers back, while Bob (voice of Craig T. Nelson) navigates the day-to-day heroics of “normal” life at home with Violet (voice of Sarah Vowell), Dash (voice of ...
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Analysis
6 years ago+38 38 0 x 1Late to Bed, Early to Die? Night Owls May Die Sooner
Bad news for "night owls": Those who tend to stay up late and sleep in well past sunrise are at increased risk of early death, a new study suggests.
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Analysis
6 years ago+29 29 0Slow-Motion Ocean: Atlantic's Circulation Is Weakest in 1,600 Years
If hemisphere-spanning currents are slowing, greater flooding and extreme weather could be at hand
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Expression
6 years ago+44 44 0 x 1The Sad, Sad Story of Laika, the Space Dog, and Her One-Way Trip into Orbit
A stray Moscow pup traveled into orbit in 1957 with one meal and only a seven-day oxygen supply