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Are forgotten crops the future of food? Just four crops — wheat, maize, rice and soybean — provide two-thirds of the world’s food supply. But scientists in Malaysia are trying to change that by reviving crops that have been relegated to the sidelines. August 22, 2018 at 04:15PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2BAKOWf

How the Trump Administration Is Remaking The Courts Thanks to ruthless discipline — and a plan long in the making — the GOP is carrying out a sweeping transformation of the federal judiciary. August 22, 2018 at 04:15PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2nZqB2E

The Strange Life and Mysterious Death of a Panther-Trapping, Gator-Wrestling Wild Man Trapper Nelson was a Florida legend from the day he hopped off a boxcar to the day he died. But did he really kill himself, or was he murdered? August 22, 2018 at 04:11PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2w6IuRv

Beto O'Rourke vs. Ted Cruz and the Fight for America Down in deep-red Texas, a fresh-faced liberal named Beto O'Rourke has a shot at beating Ted Cruz. But huge as that would be, the race has grander implications: It helps explain all the giddy hopes and secret fears of Democrats everywhere. August 22, 2018 at 04:05PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2wi5v39

How a Makeup Mogul Built a $1 Billion Business on Instagram Ranked 37th on Forbes' America's Richest Self-Made Women list, Huda Kattan has a net worth of more than $500 million, a fan base of 26 million Instagram followers, and 2.4 million YouTube subscribers. August 22, 2018 at 04:00PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2P0765D

North America Hasn’t Had A Megadrought In Recorded History. It Could Be Overdue "If something like this happens again next winter, then we’ll be in big trouble." August 22, 2018 at 03:55PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2PsZrxD

How an international hacker network turned stolen press releases into $100 million At a Kiev nightclub in the spring of 2012, 24-year-old Ivan Turchynov made a fateful drunken boast to some fellow hackers. August 22, 2018 at 03:50PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2N9pFDS

Here's Scientific Proof Your Brain Was Designed To Be Distracted Research shows that our attention can never be consistently focused. So you might as well stop trying. August 22, 2018 at 03:45PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2BAFNgn

Papa John Is Convinced Only Papa John Can Save Papa John's Disgraced pizza chain founder John Schnatter launched a personal website to rehabilitate his image. August 22, 2018 at 03:40PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2nZ7WE7

I Ran Away From My Life, and I Don’t Regret a Thing I had always ignored the looming specter of cataclysmic burnout. Without work, what would I have? But it suddenly and violently materialized. I spent my commute fantasizing that the train would derail. I stopped seeing friends. I woke up every morning filled with dread. August 22, 2018 at 03:35PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2BDWeZi

The Services We Canceled This Year, From Moviepass To Netflix Here are some of the reasons The Verge staff have been canceling their subscriptions, from Amazon Prime and cable TV, to MoviePass and MealPal. August 22, 2018 at 03:20PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2w6ud7p

The Vanishing Idealism Of Burning Man Artists head to the desert to build a utopia. But does their work hold up in the real world? August 22, 2018 at 01:55PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2MpsjsO

Beware Of Bosses Handing Out 'Crap Sandwiches' How to spot a sneaky, ill-conceived managerial technique for giving negative feedback. August 22, 2018 at 01:45PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2OXeVsz

Posting Instagram Sponsored Content Is The New Summer Job As long as you’re a teen with a following August 22, 2018 at 01:40PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2o1xBw0

The Only People More Obsessed With Sparkling Water Than Millennials Are Venture Capitalists The question is why investors, who look to get a 10x return on every investment they make, would turn to a product as commoditized as soda water? August 22, 2018 at 01:35PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2PvmgAF

The Untold Story of NotPetya, the Most Devastating Cyberattack in History Crippled ports. Paralyzed corporations. Frozen government agencies. How a single piece of code crashed the world. August 22, 2018 at 12:35PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2Pz46ye

Lessons From a 5,000-Year-Old Kenyan Cemetery Logatham North Pillar Site is upending old assumptions about why people make monuments. August 21, 2018 at 10:35PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2BEA3Sy

The Women Code Breakers Who Unmasked Soviet Spies At the height of the Cold War, America’s most secretive counterespionage effort set out to crack unbreakable ciphers. August 21, 2018 at 10:05PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2N2YfPU

The Men Who Won't Quit Smoking Because They Want To Stay Thin "It’s simple: Being fat feels like shit, and smoking feels great." August 21, 2018 at 10:05PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2OWUigd

The Most Influential—and Hardest-Rocking—Man in Country Music Superproducer Jay Joyce has made hit records for Eric Church, Little Big Town, Carrie Underwood, and more. The rest of Nashville just wants to know how he does it. August 21, 2018 at 09:55PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2N4rqCk

This Is Hands Down The Best Song Named 'Hallelujah' Ever Written Former Vine standout and musician Bill Wurtz has done it again. And by "it," we mean written a good song and accompanied it with funny animations. August 21, 2018 at 09:25PM Continue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?utm_source=ifttt&v=gqxT6KOFRIo

Getting Bedbugs Actually Made My Life Better August 21, 2018 at 08:35PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2MHHqgB

Galaxy Note 9 Water Cooling Tested: Does It Really Work? The Galaxy Note 9 has a feature designed to keep this flagship cool while delivering consistent speed: Samsung put a water-carbon cooling system in the device to keep it from breaking a sweat while you're in the middle of an extended Fortnite session. Does it work? August 21, 2018 at 08:35PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2nY9bne

This is where the cars go to die August 21, 2018 at 07:35PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2nVCLcJ

Scientists Find Direct Evidence Of Water Ice On The Lunar Surface The discovery, a decade in the making, shows that water ice exists in both the southern and northern poles of Earth's only natural satellite. August 21, 2018 at 07:35PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2MN22UQ

The sorry saga of the British school that innovated itself to death Free schools were launched as a free market utopia. Now kids are paying the price of political shortcomings August 21, 2018 at 06:35PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2N5ACGy

Paul Allen Built The World’s Biggest Plane. Does Anyone Need It? Stratolaunch is a very big airplane, but it has never flown. August 21, 2018 at 06:20PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2BwxCBJ

YouTube Creators Reinvented Diss Tracks To Make Millions YouTube diss tracks, and the ongoing, manufactured drama that fuel them, are the gift that keeps on giving for creators looking to remain relevant — and deepen their pockets. August 21, 2018 at 06:10PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2o39M7b

In Less Than A Year, The $1,000 Phone Has Become Entirely Normal Three or four years ago, anyone proposing a four-figure price for a phone would have been laughed out of their boardroom meeting. August 21, 2018 at 05:35PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2BF4598

A Day In The Life Of A Waymo Self-driving Taxi Waymo is ready to start charging for its self-driving trips, but first, it needs to master the dreaded art of fleet management August 21, 2018 at 05:30PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2BwCFly

This Is Not How The Ground Is Supposed To Work No matter how many times we see soil liquefaction, it still messes with our heads. August 21, 2018 at 04:40PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2MAtvJh

Facebook Fueled Anti-Refugee Attacks in Germany, New Research Suggests August 21, 2018 at 01:25PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2Lid2oo

Man Shoots Tequila Bottle Shot Off Friend's Head Before you try this at home, how about you consult your old pal William Burroughs on whether or not it's a good idea, eh? August 21, 2018 at 01:20PM Continue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?has_verified=1&utm_source=ifttt&v=OMndGGBxknE

The Key To Winning At Pinball Is Much Less Random Than You'd Think Contrary to what people might think, you're relying on skill and tactics and not merely luck in the game. August 21, 2018 at 01:20PM Continue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?utm_source=ifttt&v=T1zzyGhA4-g

A New Wife, a Secret Past and a Trail of Loss and Blood A widower met a younger woman on the street in 2013. They married soon after. Then he got to know her. August 21, 2018 at 12:50PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2OTpb5e

Crying In H Mart Sobbing near the dry goods, I ask myself, “Am I even Korean anymore if there’s no one left in my life to call and ask which brand of seaweed we used to buy?” August 21, 2018 at 12:45PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2OYiBur

The Undertakers Of Silicon Valley: How Failure Became Big Business In the world of tech startups, messing up is practically a religion. This company is here to pick up the pieces. August 21, 2018 at 12:45PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2nX5SfU

The Inescapable Weight Of My $100,000 Student Debt MH Miller left university with a journal full of musings on Virginia Woolf and a vast financial burden. He is one of 44 million US graduates struggling to repay a total of $1.4 trillion. Were they right to believe their education was "priceless"? August 21, 2018 at 12:45PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2OTryF3

Why Is The Process Of Buying Sperm So Terrible? Smart Design's Stephanie Yung shares some ideas for injecting humanity into the deeply impersonal process of bringing a life into the world. August 21, 2018 at 12:40PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2nX53DQ

Arctic’s Strongest Sea Ice Breaks Up For First Time On Record Usually frozen waters open up twice this year in phenomenon scientists described as scary. August 21, 2018 at 12:30PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2LcZp9V

Why It’s Only Science That Can Answer All The Big Questions The lubricant of the scientific method is optimism, optimism that given patience and effort, often collaborative effort, comprehension will come. August 21, 2018 at 12:30PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2Lfq3ix

Emus Swarm Town As Australia's Drought Worsens One mining town in the outback, Broken Hill, is even reporting crowds of emus arriving into town searching for water and food. The birds, which are flightless and can grow more than 6 feet tall, have been spotted running laps of the main street, eating gardens and gate crashing football matches. August 21, 2018 at 12:35AM Continue: https://ift.tt/2MtEaWY

In France, One Village Sets an Example by Helping Refugees August 21, 2018 at 12:15AM Continue: https://ift.tt/2w2lRxy

The Return of Simone Biles and the Costs of Gymnastics Biles stepped away from the sport after the 2016 Olympics, in Rio de Janeiro, as the best gymnast in the world and arguably the greatest the world had ever seen. Last month, she returned somehow even better — and at nationals she showed that she still has room to grow. August 21, 2018 at 12:15AM Continue: https://ift.tt/2LcX7r4

Terence Nance Is Indescribable The writer, director and actor talks about the influences behind his new HBO show, "Random Acts of Flyness." August 20, 2018 at 11:50PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2vWH3Fs

N.K Jemisin Makes Hugo Awards History With Latest Best Novel Win A win for her novel "The Stone Sky" makes her the fifth author to have ever received three or more Hugos for Best Novel, and the only author to win that award for three consecutive years. August 20, 2018 at 11:50PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2nSzTNN

Amazon Isn’t Paying Its Electric Bills. You Might Be The company's rate discounts have pushed up utility costs for everyone else. August 20, 2018 at 11:50PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2MZZlvM

The Reasons to Be Wary of Reports About 'Forgiven' Student Loan Debt August 20, 2018 at 11:30PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2Pqx4Ab

The Parasitic Vine That Slowly Sucks the Life Out of Wasps Poor Florida oaks are being doubly parasitized — by the gall wasps and the love vine at the same time. August 20, 2018 at 11:30PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2N7dyab

We can learn the secrets of smooth traffic flow by watching fire ants Study: 30 percent of ants in a colony do 70 percent of the work. That's a good thing. August 20, 2018 at 11:30PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2MA9lPx