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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

The Fight to Secure Vulnerable Medical Devices From Hackers "The big problem is that hospitals don't buy new devices, and they keep using really dangerous ones ad infinitum — until they just stop working." August 20, 2018 at 11:30PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2BvGEPs

A Divided Neighborhood Comes Together under an Elevated Expressway August 20, 2018 at 10:20PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2ONEjB0

Exclusive: Some Arctic Ground No Longer Freezing—Even in Winter New data from two Arctic sites suggest some surface layers are no longer freezing. If that continues, greenhouse gases from permafrost could accelerate climate change. August 20, 2018 at 10:20PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2PrdAeO

Facing The Facts About 'Robert De Niro Syndrome' An exceedingly rare condition, Robert De Niro syndrome has only been known to manifest in two people: Robert De Niro and the one film buff you went to high school with who's always doing "Goodfellas" impressions. August 20, 2018 at 09:55PM Continue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?utm_source=ifttt&v=yalSlBg7PyI

The ‘Nanette’ problem Comedy is at its best when it helps audiences understand their relationship to trauma, not when it makes them feel comfortably woke. August 20, 2018 at 09:35PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2LaDMXC

385 Feet of Crazy: The Most Audacious Flying Machine Ever Alt-aviation wizard Burt Rutan set out to design a plane that could haul rockets to the edge of space. Then he persuaded Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen to build a dual-fuselage beast with a wingspan longer than a football field. August 20, 2018 at 09:25PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2MJXEG8

Think Rivers Are Dangerous Now? Just Wait You hear a lot about how climate change is fueling the rise of our seas, but not so much about how it will transform our rivers, the flooding of which currently affects almost 60 million people a year. August 20, 2018 at 09:25PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2LbEHHd

The Fire at Eagle Creek Last fall, a massive blaze ripped through Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge, stranding hikers and driving people from their homes. One year later, the earth is recovering, but the fire still haunts locals’ dreams. August 20, 2018 at 09:25PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2MDCNUx

Meet the Pro-Environment Republican Trying to Take Down Liz Cheney Wyoming politics have always been idiosyncratic—which is why a bearded hippie has the best shot at taking down a climate-change-denying, anti-gay-marriage incumbent in tomorrow’s primary. August 20, 2018 at 09:15PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2LaA4gE

ICE Wanted To Deport A Man Who Said He Was A US Citizen. After A Long Fight, A Court Says He Was Right. Levy Jaen’s hope to return home to his children hinged on what US law says about who should be considered his father. August 20, 2018 at 09:15PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2BvDawk

How Network Math Can Help You Make Friends Studying the structure of existing friendships in your community can help you forge the best connections when forming a new circle of friends. August 20, 2018 at 07:25PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2nVEpuR

How a Football Team Became Mascots for Vegetarianism In 1907, a championship squad changed what it meant to eat meat-free. August 20, 2018 at 07:15PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2La980G

Can the Escape Room Craze Reach Escape Velocity? In the past four years, the escape room industry has grown from about two dozen U.S. facilities to more than 2,300 August 20, 2018 at 06:46PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2OSioc9

Living Behind the Wheel More Americans are sleeping in their cars than ever before. Should cities make space for them? August 20, 2018 at 05:51PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2N17v6Z

The Most Selfish Choice I can’t imagine any decision more selfish than this: to bring another person into being without their say-so, simply because you desire it – because you want someone to love, or to love you back, or because you want the particular version of your future which you hope they might provide. August 20, 2018 at 04:20PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2vVxbvq

The Great Preppy Style Comeback Has Begun But these ain't your dad's Nantucket reds. August 20, 2018 at 04:16PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2Pm8vEp

Here's What Happens When You Take A Week Off Slack "It was only a week, so we didn't expect it to have a huge impact. We were so wrong!" August 20, 2018 at 04:10PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2MnKaQN

How Heroin Came for Middle-Class Moms Well-to-do women have moved from popping prescription painkillers to shooting up street drugs. And they're dying because of it in staggering, skyrocketing numbers. August 20, 2018 at 04:02PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2N38UtO

Monday Morning Is The Best Time To Grocery Shop A meditation on roaming the aisles in the early hours. August 20, 2018 at 04:02PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2vVttSw

Rare Photos Of Prague Spring For several months in early 1968, Czechoslovakians reveled in newly won freedoms. Then Soviet troops invaded. August 20, 2018 at 03:40PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2MC3nO0

The Dwarf, the Prince, and the Diamond in the Mountain An unlikely fable, in which Birkenstocks become cool and double sales overnight. August 20, 2018 at 03:21PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2N3uqij

In the clowning world, you stop people from stealing your face by painting it onto an egg How whimsical/horrifying! The Clown Egg Register is a book of clown faces painted onto eggs. August 20, 2018 at 01:46PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2Mp0MYs

Pope Francis: ‘No effort must be spared’ to tackle Catholic Church’s abuses Pope Francis said in a letter released Monday by the Vatican that the Catholic Church has not dealt properly with "crimes" against children and needs to prevent sexual abuses from being "covered up and perpetuated." August 20, 2018 at 01:26PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2Pp2Ugv

Trump Lawyers’ Sudden Realization: They Don’t Know What Don McGahn Told Mueller’s Team President Trump's lawyers do not know just how much the White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, told the special counsel's investigators during months of interviews, a lapse that has contributed to a growing recognition that an early strategy of full cooperation with the inquiry was a potentially damaging mistake. August 20, 2018 at 01:21PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2OKKVju

Greece Emerges From Eurozone Bailout Program Greece has successfully completed a three-year eurozone emergency loan program worth $70.8 billion to tackle its debt crisis. August 20, 2018 at 01:16PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2N1pSsK

Chris Hemsworth Is Post-Hunk How, in times like these, is a golden-haired, chiseled-bodied action star supposed to be... relevant? GQ's Lauren Larson discovers how Chris Hemsworth threw out the old macho playbook and became a new kind of leading man. August 20, 2018 at 01:06PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2N067So

Fresno’s Mason-Dixon Line More than 50 years after redlining was outlawed, the legacy of discrimination can still be seen in California’s poorest large city. August 20, 2018 at 12:36PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2MEr3RJ

When Will I Be Me? Why A Sense Of Authenticity Takes Its Time Only we ourselves are privy to when we are behaving authentically or not. August 20, 2018 at 12:36PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2OKESvi

Harsh Headlines, Failed Festivals And, Finally, Friends: "Pokémon Go," Two Years On John Hanke, the boss of developer Niantic, is as passionate as ever about getting players outside. And his strategy is working, as seen in the success of this year’s Pokémon Go Fest in Chicago August 20, 2018 at 12:25PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2wdng3S

How To Get The Most Out Of A Short Vacation Here are some tips for getting the most out of your getaway, from people who study — or practice — the art of vacation. August 20, 2018 at 12:21PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2MFK8Dd

The Sounds Of Music In The Twenty-First Century Contemporary composition has become as fractured as the art world — and that's a good thing. August 20, 2018 at 12:07PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2vWxAOk

Nightmare Bosses The worst manager stories I’ve heard in a decade-plus of writing a workplace advice column. August 20, 2018 at 12:07PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2ON1QCe

Is Democracy Really Dying? August 20, 2018 at 11:55AM Continue: https://ift.tt/2OOaIaA

How I Became Fake News August 20, 2018 at 11:50AM Continue: https://ift.tt/2BsotKf

America’s Invisible Pot Addicts More and more Americans are reporting near-constant cannabis use, as legalization forges ahead. August 20, 2018 at 11:45AM Continue: https://ift.tt/2N2qcr5