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The Eerie Magic Of Small-town Alabama, In Photos

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The Eerie Magic Of Small-town Alabama, In Photos The town of Nauvoo, Alabama, has a population of barely over 200 people. "If you blink, you would drive straight through it," says photographer Devin Lunsford. August 6, 2018 at 08:09PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2Ofm2ME

Astronomers Found a Rogue Planet 12 Times the Mass of Jupiter

Astronomers Found a Rogue Planet 12 Times the Mass of Jupiter August 6, 2018 at 07:34PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2M5um4o

Betsy DeVos' Vacation Home, Dissected By The Architecture Critic Behind McMansion Hell

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Betsy DeVos' Vacation Home, Dissected By The Architecture Critic Behind McMansion Hell "What do the rich do with all their money? Build horrific monstrosities with eight dishwashers and dismantle the public school system." August 6, 2018 at 07:24PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2OJbTca

Enjoy This Drone's Eye View Of The Ruins Of Pompeii

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Enjoy This Drone's Eye View Of The Ruins Of Pompeii Now we're wishing drones existed at the actual time of the volcanic eruption. But this is a nice consolation prize. August 6, 2018 at 05:29PM Continue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?utm_source=ifttt&v=CSyfkqD3oig

Genius Drummer Makes Tape Reels Sound Like A Futuristic Drum Kit

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Genius Drummer Makes Tape Reels Sound Like A Futuristic Drum Kit It looks like it takes a fair amount of work to set up and maintain this odd instrument, but the sound it produces is on another level. August 6, 2018 at 04:59PM Continue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&utm_source=ifttt&v=fbjbGQVqj0M

Can Too Much Spicy Food Ruin Your Taste Buds? I Asked a Chile Expert

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Can Too Much Spicy Food Ruin Your Taste Buds? I Asked a Chile Expert Spice is a seasoning, just like salt. So while you can definitely ruin a dish with too much spice, you're not physically ruining your taste buds. August 6, 2018 at 04:24PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2MkkW1B

Flood Thy Neighbor: Who Stays Dry and Who Decides?

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Flood Thy Neighbor: Who Stays Dry and Who Decides? One Missouri town’s levee saga captures what's wrong with America's approach to controlling rivers. August 6, 2018 at 04:04PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2ON5lcI

'Five Years Ago There Was Nothing': Inside Duqm, The City Rising From The Sand

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'Five Years Ago There Was Nothing': Inside Duqm, The City Rising From The Sand Oman's sparsely inhabited coast of fishing villages and Bedouin camps is being transformed into industrial city with port, luxury hotels and housing for 111,000. August 6, 2018 at 04:04PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2AHv6bn

'Christopher Robin' Is A Late-Stage Capitalism Version Of 'Hook'

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'Christopher Robin' Is A Late-Stage Capitalism Version Of 'Hook' Labor rights, not Winnie the Pooh, are the movie's real hero. August 6, 2018 at 03:54PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2vnpHB4

Meet A New Kind Of Book, Designed For The Age Of Peak TV

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Meet A New Kind Of Book, Designed For The Age Of Peak TV Here’s what it looks like when you write a book as if it’s a TV show. August 6, 2018 at 03:44PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2vmEPP1

The Mindfuck: Returning To My Mennonite Homeland

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The Mindfuck: Returning To My Mennonite Homeland I had actually been fucked in the head years earlier, some might say, by my religious upbringing in a Mennonite commune. August 6, 2018 at 03:39PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2vkI49E

SoundCloud Rap Is the Only Reason Voicemail Still Exists

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SoundCloud Rap Is the Only Reason Voicemail Still Exists Voicemail’s role as a mixtape filler is so ubiquitous it’s now a meme. It raises some curious legal and ethical questions, too. August 6, 2018 at 03:24PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2OPhVYG

The Carousel of Progress

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The Carousel of Progress August 6, 2018 at 03:04PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2LW3Knc

Tyler The Creator Talks Cookies, Clothes And Crying To Kanye’s 'Violent Crimes'

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Tyler The Creator Talks Cookies, Clothes And Crying To Kanye’s 'Violent Crimes' In pursuit of cookies, clothes, and maybe even a little maturity with pop culture’s kaleidoscopic visionary. August 6, 2018 at 01:44PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2Ocesm3

'2001' Is Still Teaching Us How To Pay Attention To Movies

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'2001' Is Still Teaching Us How To Pay Attention To Movies The thinking is that anything that requires sustained concentration couldn’t possibly hold the collective focus of a group. August 6, 2018 at 01:34PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2vjLLws

The Chorus Girl

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The Chorus Girl The key to writing a good song for brat-pop wunderkind turned musical futurist Charli XCX? Speed and avoiding her feelings. August 6, 2018 at 01:29PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2AJaAaa

Beyoncé In Her Own Words: Her Life, Her Body, Her Heritage

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Beyoncé In Her Own Words: Her Life, Her Body, Her Heritage "Until there is a mosaic of perspectives coming from different ethnicities behind the lens, we will continue to have a narrow approach and view of what the world actually looks like." August 6, 2018 at 01:24PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2MqmsiH

The Primal Pleasure And Brutal History Of Sugar

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The Primal Pleasure And Brutal History Of Sugar How a taste for sweetness, developed for survival, became a stand-in for everything good — and evil — about our culture. August 6, 2018 at 12:44PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2vIWQGP

Incels' Obsession With Looks Is Based On Fake Math

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Incels' Obsession With Looks Is Based On Fake Math A statistician breaks down the flawed science that runs rampant in the manosphere. August 6, 2018 at 12:39PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2Of90ik

Facebook, Apple And Spotify Ban Infowars' Alex Jones

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Facebook, Apple And Spotify Ban Infowars' Alex Jones Publishing platforms have faced strong pressure to take action against Jones and Infowars over the past few months, but Apple was the first major company to sanction the broadcaster in its entirety, narrowly beating Facebook to the punch August 6, 2018 at 12:14PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2OgBBDJ

Ghosts On The Shore

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Ghosts On The Shore August 6, 2018 at 12:09PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2KvCDK7

Who's Responsible For Your Bad Tech Habits? It's Complicated

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Who's Responsible For Your Bad Tech Habits? It's Complicated In a matter of months, the burden of responsibility has managed to spread between individual users, private companies, and governments. August 6, 2018 at 12:09PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2M7wJn2

There’s a surprisingly rich debate about how to define death

There’s a surprisingly rich debate about how to define death August 6, 2018 at 11:59AM Continue: https://ift.tt/2AKO8xt

Is There A Logical Inconsistency In The Constitution?

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Is There A Logical Inconsistency In The Constitution? The mathematician who wrote the "Incompleteness Theorem" proof was apparently alarmed by our founding document. He just never explained why. August 6, 2018 at 11:59AM Continue: https://ift.tt/2OLjZAY

'Dota 2' Veterans Steamrolled By AI Team In Exhibition Match

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'Dota 2' Veterans Steamrolled By AI Team In Exhibition Match OpenAI Five won the best-of-three exhibition match convincingly, and the only reason the human team took a game was thanks to a little help from the audience. August 6, 2018 at 11:54AM Continue: https://ift.tt/2M0mn8J

How Trump Radicalized ICE

How Trump Radicalized ICE A long-running inferiority complex, vast statutory power, a chilling new directive from the top — inside America's unfolding immigration tragedy. August 6, 2018 at 11:49AM Continue: https://ift.tt/2LWlE9n

Indonesia Earthquake: At Least 98 Dead After Quake Strikes Lombok

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Indonesia Earthquake: At Least 98 Dead After Quake Strikes Lombok President Joko Widodo expresses 'deep sorrow' as rescues continue after magnitude 6.9 quake strikes. August 6, 2018 at 11:29AM Continue: https://ift.tt/2AVYP0v

‘Too Little Too Late’: Bankruptcy Booms Among Older Americans

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‘Too Little Too Late’: Bankruptcy Booms Among Older Americans For a rapidly growing share of older Americans, traditional ideas about life in retirement are being upended by a dismal reality: bankruptcy. August 6, 2018 at 11:29AM Continue: https://ift.tt/2Mbge9T

Trump Admits Son’s 2016 Meeting With Russian Lawyer Was To Seek 'Information On' Clinton

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Trump Admits Son’s 2016 Meeting With Russian Lawyer Was To Seek 'Information On' Clinton President Trump's acknowledgment of the meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Kremlin-aligned lawyer contradicted a misleading statement he dictated for his son in 2017. But in a tweet, Trump called the meeting "totally legal" and distanced himself by writing, "I did not know about it!" August 6, 2018 at 11:29AM Continue: https://ift.tt/2OcquMo