Post Overview
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How-to
10 years ago+9 9 0How to Free Yourself from Recipes with a Few Golden Cooking Ratios
Following a recipe is a great way to get started in the kitchen. However, once you’ve gotten the hang of it, you can learn the few choice ratios that govern dozens of different dishes--and free yourself from the restrictions of recipes. Here's h ...
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Expression
10 years ago+24 24 0A photographer documents his wife's battle with cancer
Angelo Merendino, a New York-based photographer, says the photo essay of his wife Jennifer's battle with breast cancer is an attempt to "humanize the face of cancer."
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Analysis
10 years ago+14 14 0 x 1How Safe Is Cycling? It’s Hard to Say
Until his bike slid out of control while he was going 35 miles an hour downhill around a sharp turn, Dr. Harold Schwartz thought cycling accidents were something that happened to other people. Now, after recovering from a fractured pelvis, Dr. Schwar ...
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Review
10 years ago+14 14 0This Magical Pair of Underwear Can Filter Out Your Fart's Smell
Here's technology we can all get behind for our occasionally smelly behinds. Shreddies is a pair of underwear that promises to filter out farts. Seriously, it's supposed kill your fart's smell and be able to neutralize odors up to 200 ...
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Current Event
10 years ago+12 12 0DDoS attacks are likely bombarding the U.S. as we speak
Google’s new real-time map showing DDoD attacks across the world is both awesome and scary — especially if you’re running a website in the United States.
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Current Event
10 years ago+13 13 0Li-Fi Turns Every Lightbulb Into an Ultra-Fast Wireless Network
Researchers are creating a way to turn lightbulbs into ultra-fast wireless networks that would have 100,000 times the frequency of a Wi-Fi signal.
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Expression
10 years ago+15 15 0 x 2It's Been 365 Days Since My Last "Like"
I used to love Facebook. When I first signed up back in 2004, I was all about it. I could find old classmates, quickly share a funny link with my buddies, and generally stay connected in a way I’d never experienced before. It only got better when the ...
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Expression
10 years ago+16 16 0A Photographer Turns Her Lens On Men Who Catcall
Social media was abuzz this week with photographer Hannah Price's portraits of men who catcalled her on the street. We first saw the story on The Morning News, where Price was briefly interviewed. We wanted to indulge our curiosity about Price a ...
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Current Event
10 years ago+14 14 0 x 1LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman On Two Realistic Outcomes Of Teaching Everyone To Code
On a regular basis, we get pitched with major tech industry initiatives to broaden computer science education. A day after Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates signed on to a new initiative from Code.org to inspire 10 million new computer programmers, educ ...
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Expression
10 years ago+10 10 0Removing My Children From the Internet
About a week ago I began deleting all photos and videos of my children from the Internet. This is proving to be no easy task. Like many parents, I’ve excitedly shared virtually every step, misstep and milestone that myself and my children have muddle ...
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Expression
10 years ago+13 13 0Respect Her No
I regularly have instances where women reject my advances. Being a man who’s made a habit of making outrageous asks on a regular basis, I hear the word “No” a lot. When it’s from a customer service representative, a vendor, or a client, I’ll do whate ...
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Video/Audio
10 years ago+22 22 0 x 1A Hand-Built Amusement Park in the Middle of the Italian Forest
A documentary called Ai Pioppi, released by Fabrica and written by Luiz Romero, documents the incredible story of Bruno, an Italian restauranteur who, in his spare time, is hand-building an entire amusement park in the woods.
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Current Event
10 years ago+12 12 0DEA 'Very Concerned' About Flesh-Eating Drug
Over the past few weeks, doctors in Arizona and Illinois have reported treating users of krokodil, a flesh-destroying drug new to the United States.
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Analysis
10 years ago+11 11 0What Humans Can Learn From A Simple Kiss
Why is kissing found in practically every culture? A kiss can convey passion, love and, perhaps subconsciously, a veritable catalog of information about the worthiness of a potential mate - so much for romance.
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Review
10 years ago+15 15 0 x 1iPhone 5S users report 'Blue Screen Of Death' reboots
Apple's latest iPhone 5S has an unexpected feature: the Blue Screen Of Death (BSOD). While it's typically an error found on older Windows PCs, a number of iPhone 5S users are reporting random...
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Analysis
10 years ago+9 10 1 x 1Scientists Accidentally Create Improbable Two-Dimensional Quasicrystals
A strange new substance has unexpectedly emerged from a university lab in Germany: a two-dimensional quasicrystal, consisting of 12-sided, non-repeating atomic units. The quasicrystalline film, described today in Nature, is the first example of a 2-D ...
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Expression
10 years ago+14 14 0 x 2Rich People Just Care Less
“Apart from the financial inequities, I fear the expansion of an entirely different gap, caused by the inability to see oneself in a less advantaged person’s shoes,” writes Op-Ed contributor Daniel Goleman.
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Analysis
10 years ago+17 17 0 x 1What saying 'I' says about you
People who often use the word "I" are less powerful and less sure of themselves than those who don't, according to multiple studies. "The high-status person is looking out at the world and the low-status person is looking at hims ...
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Video/Audio
10 years ago+21 21 0 x 1Watch This Girl With Telekinetic Powers Freak Out Coffee Shop Patrons
What if telekinesis was real? How would you react? Our hidden camera experiment captures the reactions of unsuspecting customers at a New York City coffee shop as they witness a telekinetic event.
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How-to
10 years ago+11 11 0Disconnect Search, Built By Ex-Google And Ex-NSA Engineers, Lets You Use Google Without Tracking
Started as a side project by then-Googler Brian Kennish back in 2010 to cut out ad tracking during a person's Facebook browsing session, Disconnect has gone on to raise funding (twice), to work on multiple browsers and sites, and create apps for ...