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The Vanishing City An archaeologist is using Burning Man — the world's biggest pop-up community — to decode humanity's past settlements. August 14, 2018 at 01:16AM Continue: https://ift.tt/2w7r2eL

You Should Get Your Coffee Before Boarding Your Flight Flight attendants — the people I like to take my plane advice from — do not and will not drink the hot coffee, tea or water served on planes because that water comes from the tap, and plane tap water can be quite gross. August 14, 2018 at 01:16AM Continue: https://ift.tt/2KRvXpw

What It’s Like for Men to Be Really, Really, Really Ridiculously Good-Looking Two guys, straight and gay, tell us a life of being absurdly handsome is not all it's cracked up to be. August 14, 2018 at 01:16AM Continue: https://ift.tt/2B5SPCo

THE RESILIENT RALLY DRIVERS OF THE EGYPTIAN DESERT Dangerous militants and anxious public officials have not dampened the Egyptian rally community's passion for desert racing. August 14, 2018 at 12:36AM Continue: https://ift.tt/2P3VVJP

SCARY STORIES AND SUPER CREEPS: THE ILLUSTRATED NIGHTMARES OF STEPHEN GAMMELL If you look at the unassuming photo of Stephen Gammell used by Simon and Schuster, you will, in no way, perceive the smiling, white-bearded and spectacled man was responsible for creating images which have terrorized the minds of children since 1981. August 14, 2018 at 12:36AM Continue: https://ift.tt/2MeETuP

How Kids Learn to Navigate the City (and the World), in Five Designs The objects and places that represent a-ha moments in child-centered design. August 14, 2018 at 12:36AM Continue: https://ift.tt/2MLX4nJ

How America Convinced The World To Demonize Drugs Much of the world used to treat drug addiction as a health issue, not a criminal one. And then America got its way. August 14, 2018 at 12:36AM Continue: https://ift.tt/2OsUfbC

The Gun Guru of YouTube John Correia wants you to prepare for the worst day of your life. August 14, 2018 at 12:36AM Continue: https://ift.tt/2Mp7Cwd

Netflix, Amazon Video, and Xfinity are accidentally re-creating cable TV As Xfinity's distribution deals expand, disruptors are taking up the same models as past cable companies. August 14, 2018 at 12:36AM Continue: https://ift.tt/2vE22fS

The Internet Is Crowdfunding the Release of 4,358 Secret CIA Mind Control Documents Twelve years after receiving a cache of CIA documents related to the MKUltra program, John Greenewald of the Black Vault realized that thousands of pages had been omitted. Now, he's asking the internet for help. August 14, 2018 at 12:36AM Continue: https://ift.tt/2KOXbgP

The Galaxy Note 9 is one step closer to the smartphone-computer dream Turning a phone into a desktop has been done before, but perhaps never better than this. August 13, 2018 at 11:51PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2MLSkhV

After 100 Years, Roald Amundsen's Polar Ship Returns to Norway Maud, which sunk in Arctic Canada in 1930, was floated across the Atlantic to its new home in a museum in Vollen. August 13, 2018 at 11:51PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2P3pfjT

The Oral History of Four Loko "It almost felt like liquid hyperbole. It was fucking insane on every level." August 13, 2018 at 09:21PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2KRGwcm

The Fastest-Sinking City In The World The Indonesian capital of Jakarta is home to 10 million people but it is also one of the fastest-sinking cities in the world. If this goes unchecked, parts of the megacity could be entirely submerged by 2050, say researchers. Is it too late? August 13, 2018 at 03:51PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2KU8K6s

Who's Afraid of Tom Arnold? August 13, 2018 at 03:46PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2MmX5lj

Halfway To Boiling: The City At 50 Degrees Celsius It is the temperature at which human cells start to cook, animals suffer and air conditioners overload power grids. Once an urban anomaly, 50C is fast becoming reality August 13, 2018 at 03:31PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2w3SY3i

How a Billion-Dollar Autonomous Vehicle Startup Lost Its Way August 13, 2018 at 02:56PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2MFIQEY

The Next Populist Revolution Will Be Latino Democrats are betting on a diversifying electorate to secure their party's future, but second-generation Latinos won’t willingly accept a deeply unequal society. August 13, 2018 at 01:51PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2Mg1APd

The US is losing the high-stakes global battery war Though we rarely give them much thought, batteries — specifically lithium-ion batteries — enable modern life. August 13, 2018 at 01:51PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2KNL8QI

Hacking The Electric Grid Is Damned Hard Bringing down the grid is a lot harder than just flicking a switch, but the danger is real — and it may never go away. August 13, 2018 at 01:46PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2OtAtwP

The Very Profitable, Entirely True Story of Selling Diet Beer to Burly Men Miller Lite was not the world’s first light beer, as many believe, but it was the first successful light beer. Its considerable market share — it’s currently the nation’s third-best-selling beer — was kickstarted by a 1970s advertising campaign that targeted blue-collar men. August 13, 2018 at 01:16PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2MiTKDI

On Being Young, Scrappy, And (Sometimes) Satisfied Remain forever hungry, or enjoy the tried-and-true? Sometimes, I learned, it’s okay to double down on the life you have. August 13, 2018 at 01:16PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2vI6fiy

A Mind-Bending Avalanche Animation That Could Save Your Life Thanks in part to groundwork laid by the animators of Disney’s "Frozen," researchers have simulated in awesome detail the moment a slab avalanche shears from a mountain. August 13, 2018 at 01:16PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2MHZdRm

What New York Looked Like Without Electricity In 2003 New York City lost power right around the beginning of a Thursday evening rush hour. Photos from August 14-15, 2003 show a city interrupted. August 13, 2018 at 01:11PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2vHariF

How Bill Browder Became Russia's Most Wanted Man The hedge-fund manager has offered a fable for why the West should confront Putin. August 13, 2018 at 01:02PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2B6LQJh

Virgin Galactic’s Rocket Man The ace pilot risking his life to fulfill Richard Branson's billion-dollar quest to make commercial space travel a reality. August 13, 2018 at 12:36PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2w4PIEO

Inside The Poisoning Of A Russian Double Agent How a hit on a retired spy named Sergei Skripal became the latest — and most terrifying — front in Vladimir Putin’s war with the West. August 13, 2018 at 12:31PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2MJkAlk

What To Do When You Can’t Stand Your Friend's Significant Other As nice as it would be to have that power, we can’t choose who our friends date. August 13, 2018 at 12:16PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2MGyNj6

My Year Without A Nose Attempting to smell the roses when sino-nasal squamous cell carcinoma (aka nose cancer) has left you with a plastic imitation schnoz and put your life in peril. August 13, 2018 at 12:11PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2MnOS0b

You Don't Have To React To Every Post And Text You See Liking things, boosting them, is now part of the social contract. And fear of breaking that pact has now become a burden. August 13, 2018 at 12:11PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2MFhYoA

Take A Look Inside The Furby’s Leaked Source Code The Furby's source code is written in 6502 assembly. That said, it’s worth pointing out that the original Furby itself didn’t run a MOS Technology 6502 chip — the likes of which also powered the Apple II and the Nintendo Entertainment System. August 13, 2018 at 12:06PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2vYWqvW

What Are "Ethics In Design"? People in the field are calling for more ethical decision-making — but it’s hard to pin down what exactly that means. August 13, 2018 at 12:01PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2vESEsq

Finding True North Thousands of Haitians who fled the United States on foot last summer have started very different lives in Canada. August 13, 2018 at 11:56AM Continue: https://ift.tt/2vEQyc5

UN Human Rights Chief: Trump's Attacks On Press 'Close To Incitement Of Violence' Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, who steps down this month, says US president’s rhetoric echoes that of the worst eras of the 20th century August 13, 2018 at 11:46AM Continue: https://ift.tt/2B7KIFr