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Facebook backtracks after removing Warren ads calling for Facebook breakup

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Facebook backtracks after removing Warren ads calling for Facebook breakup Facebook removed several ads placed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign that called for the breakup of Facebook and other tech giants. But the social network later reversed course after POLITICO reported on the takedown, with the company saying it wanted to allow for "robust debate." March 12, 2019 at 12:19AM Continue: https://ift.tt/2F6l97x

Always connected with thousands of "friends" — yet feeling all alone

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Always connected with thousands of "friends" — yet feeling all alone Generation Z and millennials rated themselves highest on feelings associated with loneliness. March 11, 2019 at 11:29PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2UxaIPH

Boeing 737 Max, Involved In 2 Crashes, Is Fastest-Selling Plane In Company's History

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Boeing 737 Max, Involved In 2 Crashes, Is Fastest-Selling Plane In Company's History So far, the manufacturer says it has received more than 5,000 orders for the fuel-efficient plane from more than 100 customers worldwide. The 737 Max has been key to its competition with top rival Airbus, which has found success with a similar model. March 11, 2019 at 10:59PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2VSStUS

How Secret Conversations Inside Cells Are Transforming Biology

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How Secret Conversations Inside Cells Are Transforming Biology Organelles — the cell’s workhorses — mingle far more than scientists ever appreciated. March 11, 2019 at 10:14PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2NYLJSE

Can't Draw But Want To Create Your Own Comics? Here's How.

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Can't Draw But Want To Create Your Own Comics? Here's How. Clip Studio Paint PRO is nothing like the Microsoft clip-art you're used to. With more than 4-million illustrators and comic artist users globally, use this software to complete digital painting and drawing for comics, manga and animation. Access these incredible tools for just $29.99 today (50% off the normal price). March 11, 2019 at 09:54PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2NZabTY

The US Government Will Be Scanning Your Face At 20 Top Airports, Documents Show

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The US Government Will Be Scanning Your Face At 20 Top Airports, Documents Show "This is opening the door to an extraordinarily more intrusive and granular level of government control." March 11, 2019 at 09:34PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2Hqfril

How To Take A Nap When You Suck At Taking Naps

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How To Take A Nap When You Suck At Taking Naps Regular daily naps can add years to your life, leaving lots of extra time for naps. March 11, 2019 at 08:19PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2UsqtqR

Apple Confirms March 25 Event, Expected To Announce New TV Service

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Apple Confirms March 25 Event, Expected To Announce New TV Service Apple has officially confirmed that it will hold an event on March 25 where it’s is expected to announce its long-rumored TV streaming and Apple News subscription services. March 11, 2019 at 08:14PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2HtPYo3

Silicon Valley Wants to Be Destroyed by Aliens

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Silicon Valley Wants to Be Destroyed by Aliens Flooded with wealth and influence, the array of South Bay cities that comprise the high-tech business sector bear few meaningful architectural features to mark its cultural importance — nothing "worth destroying on film." March 11, 2019 at 07:49PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2Cfl9jT

Critique Of Pure Niceness

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Critique Of Pure Niceness The trouble with the civility fetish. March 11, 2019 at 07:44PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2TFhR3f

The Challenge Of Preserving The Historical Record Of #MeToo

The Challenge Of Preserving The Historical Record Of #MeToo Evidence of the #MeToo movement should be preserved, both because it matters and because it could disappear. But archivists face a battery of technical and ethical questions with few precedents. March 11, 2019 at 07:39PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2VMrUkc

What Is Hell? It Depends On Who You Ask

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What Is Hell? It Depends On Who You Ask Beliefs around damnation have always been in flux. Now the concept may be disappearing for good. March 11, 2019 at 07:39PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2u1NWnq

At Watches Of Switzerland, Your Rolex Comes With A Martini

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At Watches Of Switzerland, Your Rolex Comes With A Martini At Watches of Switzerland, you can buy a Rolex — after having a fancy cocktail. In 2019, how far must retailers go to sell high-ticket items? March 11, 2019 at 07:34PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2CfTrDw

How One Joke Evolved Along With Rhea Butcher's Gender Identity

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How One Joke Evolved Along With Rhea Butcher's Gender Identity For comedian Rhea Butcher, this evolution centered around one punch line about having to enter rooms just shouting "I'm a woman," in which they used in two different jokes, with two different contexts, a little over a year apart. March 11, 2019 at 07:34PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2UvwrY9

John Williams and the Canon That Might Have Been

John Williams and the Canon That Might Have Been March 11, 2019 at 07:19PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2u0MnGj

The Makers Of 'Pokémon Go' Are Making A Harry Potter Game And It Looks Goofy AS Heck

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The Makers Of 'Pokémon Go' Are Making A Harry Potter Game And It Looks Goofy AS Heck Niantic's "Harry Potter: Wizards Unite" has been long in the making, and soon you'll be dodging people on the street shouting spells while staring at their phones. March 11, 2019 at 06:44PM Continue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?utm_source=ifttt&v=KJrjkwQidjg

It's 2050 And This Is How We Stopped Climate Change

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It's 2050 And This Is How We Stopped Climate Change What would a world in which greenhouse emissions have ended look like? March 11, 2019 at 06:09PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2Tt6k7Q

Why Businesses That Declare Bankruptcy Don't Always Die

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Why Businesses That Declare Bankruptcy Don't Always Die Businesses from American Airlines to American Apparel have filed for Chapter 11. Why haven’t they closed? March 11, 2019 at 05:24PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2TxxWIU

What to Do When a Colleague Overshares

What to Do When a Colleague Overshares March 11, 2019 at 05:24PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2EQ1LKE

Pineapple Pulling Is The Internet's Newest Viral Fixation

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Pineapple Pulling Is The Internet's Newest Viral Fixation This "food hack" is much harder than it looks March 11, 2019 at 05:24PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2Txxz0Y

Behold: The Instagram-Friendly Bible

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Behold: The Instagram-Friendly Bible Will Bibles designed for the Instagram generation get millennials into religion? Christian startup Alabaster expects to sell nearly $1 million worth of religious books this year. March 11, 2019 at 05:09PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2F5cxy3

The Cold Case Factory

The Cold Case Factory Forensic genealogists at Parabon NanoLabs are using DNA databases to solve cold cases faster than anyone could have imagined. But how will their techniques hold up in court? March 11, 2019 at 05:04PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2J4FRbL

It's That Time Of Year Again: The 2019 Minnesota High School All Hockey Hair Team Does Not Disappoint

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It's That Time Of Year Again: The 2019 Minnesota High School All Hockey Hair Team Does Not Disappoint There are few annual traditions we hold as dear as John King's Minnesota All Hockey Hair Team. Sadly, this year's edition will also be the last, but the videos will live on forever. March 11, 2019 at 04:54PM Continue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?utm_source=ifttt&v=teUO0Aw-qVw

Scenes From A Small-Town Crime Blotter

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Scenes From A Small-Town Crime Blotter Reading police reports can tell you a lot about a place. But you might find out more about residents' paranoia than you do about actual crime. March 11, 2019 at 04:24PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2HsTcIM

It's Outdoor Voices' World, We're Just Living In It

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It's Outdoor Voices' World, We're Just Living In It The brand's clothes perfectly suit a cultural moment when improving your life style has become a job that's supposed to be fun. March 11, 2019 at 04:14PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2J3H9nz

$3 Million Supercar Encounters A Few Inches Of Snow, Promptly Gets Stuck

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$3 Million Supercar Encounters A Few Inches Of Snow, Promptly Gets Stuck There are only 100 Pagani Huayras in the world, and we should keep them all far away from snowy climates. March 11, 2019 at 03:59PM Continue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?utm_source=ifttt&v=YwMEzurqPt4

The Creepy Authoritarianism of Madeleine L’Engle

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The Creepy Authoritarianism of Madeleine L’Engle Re-reading L'Engle's Austin books now, I’m struck by how often Vicky’s praise comes at the expense of another child, a lesser child. March 11, 2019 at 03:49PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2u2GacN

How The Bauhaus Kept The Nazis At Bay, Until They Couldn't

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How The Bauhaus Kept The Nazis At Bay, Until They Couldn't The art school's brief run in Germany shows not a simple dichotomy, but rather how, to varying degrees of bravery, individuals tried to survive under tyranny. March 11, 2019 at 02:39PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2JfBFpE

How the Internet Travels Across Oceans

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How the Internet Travels Across Oceans Nearly 750,000 miles of cable already connect the continents to support our insatiable demand for communication and entertainment. March 11, 2019 at 02:34PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2UrS4sd

Can American Troops Win Wars By Dropping Acid?

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Can American Troops Win Wars By Dropping Acid? An active duty officer argues that military intelligence analysts can benefit from a mental "flow" state to help them think more creatively — and claims LSD might help. March 11, 2019 at 01:14PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2TNEi6x

How 'Creativity' Became A Capitalist Buzzword

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How 'Creativity' Became A Capitalist Buzzword What Do Shakespeare And WeWork Have In Common? March 11, 2019 at 01:09PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2TCgd2n

Bill Hader Kills

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Bill Hader Kills With "Barry," his bleakly funny TV show, Hollywood's favorite impressionist reinvents himself as a writer-director. March 11, 2019 at 01:04PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2NUa5gq

Facebook's So-Called Pivot To Privacy Is A Diversion

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Facebook's So-Called Pivot To Privacy Is A Diversion Zuckerberg's new pledge to create a "privacy-focused platform" sure seems to take a self-servingly narrow view of privacy. March 11, 2019 at 12:34PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2TIzlf8

With Michael Jackson, It’s Different

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With Michael Jackson, It’s Different Why his fall from grace implicates all of us. March 11, 2019 at 12:24PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2ChkQFc

Cancer Patients Are Getting Robotic Surgery. There's No Evidence It's Better.

Cancer Patients Are Getting Robotic Surgery. There's No Evidence It's Better. High-tech surgical robots aren’t an improvement over traditional operations, the F.D.A. warns. For some patients, the robots may be worse. March 11, 2019 at 12:14PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2He4Mbs

Schools love the idea of a growth mindset, but does it work? – Carl Hendrick | Aeon Essays

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Schools love the idea of a growth mindset, but does it work? – Carl Hendrick | Aeon Essays A generation of schoolchildren is being exhorted to believe in their brain’s elasticity. Does it really help them learn? March 11, 2019 at 12:14PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2Ht2W5t

Legal Scholar Tim Wu Says The Us Must Enforce Antitrust Laws

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Legal Scholar Tim Wu Says The Us Must Enforce Antitrust Laws Today, judges evaluating antitrust claims tend not to look at how many competitors a company has, or how much influence it has over the economy, but simply at whether a company's business practices have raised prices for consumers. March 11, 2019 at 11:59AM Continue: https://ift.tt/2HbnsIF

How China's WeChat Became A Grim Heart Of Illegal Animal Trading

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How China's WeChat Became A Grim Heart Of Illegal Animal Trading Sales of illegal animal products shifted away from shopfronts in Laos and are surging on the Chinese social media platform WeChat. March 11, 2019 at 11:59AM Continue: https://ift.tt/2TzIEOv

China And Indonesia Ground Boeing 737 Max 8 Planes After Crash

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China And Indonesia Ground Boeing 737 Max 8 Planes After Crash The Indonesian Transport Ministry on Monday called for the temporary grounding of all Boeing 737 Max 8 planes operated by Indonesian carriers, following the fatal accidents involving two new aircraft of that model. March 11, 2019 at 11:34AM Continue: https://ift.tt/2TBC3D6