The Babies at the Fringes of Fertility Tech Beyond the reach of US law, doctors are changing the way babies are made July 31, 2018 at 08:33PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2M6QTKO
The inside story of how Jack Ma took on eBay with Taobao We’d faced down large Internet companies before, but eBay was the largest ecommerce company in the world. July 31, 2018 at 08:28PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2KdNAjl
The Danger Of Invisible Government Deeds Even as worried Americans on both coasts wring their hands over the daily drumbeat of front page, Trump-led government fiascos, we are at risk of forgetting what government is for—at all levels. The consequences of this collective forgetfulness could be cataclysmic. July 31, 2018 at 08:18PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2Kd9tiJ
Patrón Made Tequila Top-Shelf. Will Bacardi Dilute It? Master distiller Francisco Alcaraz crafted the agave spirit that changed tequila forever. A global expansion could undo his legacy. July 31, 2018 at 08:13PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2LQARHT
Axes of Evil Almost anywhere else in the world, a military order to trim a tree for security reasons would have been considered uncontroversial. In the JSA, however, everything was disputed. July 31, 2018 at 08:03PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2Ap8SL7
The Quick, Painful And 'Totally Not Gay' Cultural History Of Sack Whacking Was it an ape-brained attempt to dominate other men? Frightened boys yearning to connect? Homoerotic masochism? All of the above? July 31, 2018 at 03:28PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2AtxUJ0
The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Of Soviet Photoshopping Photoshop 1.0 was first released as the Soviet Union was collapsing, but long before the software made photo manipulation easy, Kremlin censors went to extraordinary lengths to touch up history. July 31, 2018 at 03:28PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2Oxi576
Sorry, Elon: Nuking Mars’ icecaps won’t geoengineer planet Carbon dioxide's the main greenhouse gas on Mars, and most of it was lost to space. July 31, 2018 at 03:23PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2v1tcNg
How to Assemble a Dinosaur A behind-the-scenes peek at how the Smithsonian is giving its ancient animals a modern makeover. July 31, 2018 at 03:18PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2LDsUGS
What Does It Take To Put A Waterfall On A Skyscraper? Gushing water isn't free: You not only have to get the H2O, but you need energy to bring it to the top of the building. This is why the building only runs this waterfall for short periods of time. July 31, 2018 at 03:13PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2Ka7bRm
Nintendo got it right again If Nintendo’s recent success proves anything, building for the time is more important than making for the future. July 31, 2018 at 03:03PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2Kcnltz
Here's What NASA Thinks Mars Houses Could Look Like NASA has selected five winners in an ongoing contest it has been running to get smart ideas about how to build a 3D-printed habitat on Mars. July 31, 2018 at 02:58PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2uZgSgL
Here's How America Uses Its Land The US Department of Agriculture divides the US into six major types of land. The data can’t be pinpointed to a city block — each square on the map represents 250,000 acres of land. But piecing the data together state-by-state can give a general sense of how US land is used. July 31, 2018 at 02:03PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2AsjNUj
Are Diplomas In Your DNA? This sort of correlational work for educational attainment has been in progress since at least 2011. And there is already a consumer product on the market that draws from that early research. July 31, 2018 at 01:18PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2OvdoL5
The TV and Movies We Refuse to Watch Out of Spite It's not that we don't want to; it's that there are only so many hours in the day, and so many media subscriptions you can afford, and sometimes paying hours of attention to multiple prestige dramas is exhausting and you just want to have Bar Rescue on in the background while you scroll through Twitter. July 31, 2018 at 01:13PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2n0Q1MS
Are Stock Buybacks Starving the Economy? A new report finds that big companies could have given their workers thousands of dollars’ worth of raises with the money they spent on their own shares. July 31, 2018 at 12:58PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2OyHv42
'Global Greening' Sounds Good. In the Long Run, It's Terrible Rising carbon dioxide levels are making the world greener. But that’s nothing to celebrate. July 30, 2018 at 08:43PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2Otk0tp
The Real-Life Diet of Mat Fraser, The Fittest Man on Earth The back-to-back CrossFit Games champion shares his secrets for dieting, training, sleeping, and staying positive throughout all of it. July 30, 2018 at 07:28PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2ArospC
A $100 Billion Train: The Future of California or a Boondoggle? In the face of sharp opposition and questions about how to pay for it, construction of California's high-speed rail line is roaring ahead. July 30, 2018 at 06:43PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2AqLi0C
China At The Limits Of Growth After years of expanding at breakneck pace, Shanghai and Beijing have stopped — but not on their own. July 30, 2018 at 06:43PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2AmyFnh
102-Year-Old Man Dives Into Lake, Family Curses Heavily We were not expecting him to jump in like that, and apparently neither were his immediate family members. July 30, 2018 at 05:48PM Continue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=15&utm_source=ifttt&v=NKfPbdK8F5M
World's Worst Person Splashes Every Pedestrian They Can With Their Truck Sometimes, a driver accidentally splashes you. But sometimes, a driver is on a strange vendetta against pedestrians. July 29, 2018 at 05:10PM Continue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=31&utm_source=ifttt&v=5rRO3FPpFC4
How A Booming Population And Climate Change Made California's Wildfires Worse Than Ever Across most of California, human activities and infrastructure — like campfires, arson, electrical equipment, and power lines — start the vast majority of fires. July 28, 2018 at 09:50PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2K4Ge1z
Why Some Guys Like Jerking Off Together I went looking for other men who consider mutual masturbation an important sexual experience in its own right. July 28, 2018 at 09:30PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2AkwLDw
Cambodia Eviscerates Its Free Press — And The Whole Region Suffers With authoritarianism on the rise, does an independent media have a future? July 28, 2018 at 01:55PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2vdjmHr
Canada Is Raging Against Gun Violence — But Not Like America After a shooting in Toronto, the country is debating a total ban on handguns. July 28, 2018 at 01:45PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2mQ3V4v
Cop Gets Distracted Looking At His Phone, Drives Head On Into Stationary Cyclist At least the cop acknowledged that he messed up, but still, c'mon dude. July 28, 2018 at 03:05AM Continue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=41&utm_source=ifttt&v=QoSOEtzWPlU
Passengers Hospitalized After Mysterious 'Dirty Socks' Odor Stinks Up Plane And a Hazmat team couldn't figure out why the smell made people sick. July 27, 2018 at 08:40PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2uSSoFO
Fixing Public Housing: A Day Inside a $32 Billion Problem We shadowed a superintendent in a Harlem complex to see what saving the nation’s largest public housing system really looks like on the ground. July 27, 2018 at 08:30PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2AhM3sO
Purple Pain In the aftermath of an assault, Matthew Miles Goodrich considers the effects of opioids on himself, the culture, and his musical hero, Prince. July 27, 2018 at 08:20PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2LsrWNE
How Bad Karma And Bad Engineering Doomed An Ancient Cambodian Capital Angkor was the seat of authority for the Khmer Empire for more than 600 years, from the ninth to 15th centuries, except for a 17-year interval when political power and courtly life shifted to Koh Ker. New archaeological evidence might explain why Koh Ker’s glory days were so brief: The new capital’s massive water-management system failed spectacularly soon after it was built. July 27, 2018 at 08:05PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2LS2tJD
How Climate Change Is Ruining Our Indoor Air It would take an unreasonable amount of plants to balance rising CO2 levels being found at home, school, and work. July 27, 2018 at 07:25PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2uSBM18
A Photographer’s Journey Through the Heart of UFO Country From Area 51 to Roswell, a believer's-eye view of the desert. July 27, 2018 at 07:20PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2v6XZre
Looney Tunes Characters, Ranked Who would do this? And why? Drew Magary would, was the thing, and was gonna, and I’d rather die than let his rankings speak for the site and wind up with history recording that the place where I work. July 27, 2018 at 05:55PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2uU4pea
"I Saw Kink In God": Dominatrixes And Their Orthodox Jewish Clients "Hasids are outsiders in New York, and so are sex workers. So, I think they maybe see us in a weird way as outlaws, like them." July 27, 2018 at 05:01PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2mKpnYy
Behold, The Most Burning Man Thing Ever A silver blanket the size of your average Walmart? Only at Burning Man. July 27, 2018 at 04:40PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2Ahyd9I
What If Only Females Could See Color? Have you ever wondered how your life might be different if you could see beyond the visible light spectrum—into ultraviolet or infrared? July 27, 2018 at 03:45PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2LXCMrj
Uber And Lyft Are Facing A Major Crackdown In New York City New York City officials are moving to restrict the number of Uber and Lyft vehicles allowed on the road as part of a move to contain the massive growth in the for-hire vehicle industry that has been blamed for worsening congestion and low wages for drivers. July 27, 2018 at 03:45PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2LNscq1