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My 9 Months On The Road With Fan Bingbing, China's Biggest Movie Star A decade before her disappearance, the Angelina Jolie of China hired me as her tutor. I got a crash course in China’s dizzying celebrity-industrial complex. July 11, 2019 at 07:28PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2Y0OL0j

Is Belle Delphine, AKA Bathwater Gamer Girl, The Greatest Troll On The Internet? "She’s almost like a parody of the kind of girl these dudes want,” says one expert. “She’s very directly playing into the sensibilities of these men" July 11, 2019 at 07:18PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2JuvcFO

The Rise Of A Mysteriously Effective Therapy For Trauma There are various tools for EMDR but there’s one constant: The client discusses something terrible while keeping up a monotonous physical response to bilateral stimulation. July 11, 2019 at 05:38PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2LPHRoj

The Torturous History Of The Treadmill Treadmills are one of the most popular fitness machines in the world, but they were originally invented as a way to “reform” (and torture) prisoners in English jails. July 11, 2019 at 05:13PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2XWHLkX

Facing The Future Can a New Zealand-based lab take virtual assistants from the realm of marketing gimmicks and endow them with real intelligence? July 11, 2019 at 04:33PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2NRpT7i

Taste Testing The Ice Cream That Cost $60 Million To Create In A Lab Biotech startup Perfect Day has taken five years to create animal-free dairy products. Is there a real consumer market for their ice cream? More importantly: How does it taste? July 11, 2019 at 04:28PM Continue: https://ift.tt/32lgEzn

The Inside Story of Tazer Ball, the Most Shocking Extreme Sport in TV History A freakish amalgamation of soccer and rugby in which players could shock each other with stun guns, Tazer Ball dominated the press cycle and briefly seemed like the next big thing in 2012. July 11, 2019 at 04:18PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2LPDA4e

Mysterious Illness That Paralyzes Healthy Kids Prompts Plea From CDC Acute flaccid myelitis, or AFM, first gained attention in 2014, when health officials noted a spike in the polio-like condition nationwide and began carefully documenting cases. Since then, health officials have seen a distinct every-other-year pattern to the illness. July 11, 2019 at 03:58PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2G3AXYP

Everyone Wants To Instagram The World's Most Beautiful Canyon. Should They? A sudden burst of tourism to a photogenic natural wonder is transforming a small town, and a tribe. July 11, 2019 at 03:38PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2LOof3W

New Workers Of The World A yearlong project to capture the voices of workers facing unprecedented global change. July 11, 2019 at 03:04PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2JBmPXz

A Power Ranking Of The Best And Worst Margaritas At Every Major Chain Restaurant Our process was simple: We entered each national dining chain, asked the bartender for whatever they deemed their location’s “flagship Margarita,” and individually scored the drink based on presentation, balance of flavors, and value for money. July 11, 2019 at 02:53PM Continue: https://ift.tt/32kQ1up

What’s Misunderstood About the Border A lawyer who has been volunteering at the border for years helps contextualize the new horrifying details. July 11, 2019 at 02:23PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2LfmXPR

Media Projections And Trump's Election: A Self-Defeating Prophecy? Projections may be affecting the very future they are attempting to predict. July 11, 2019 at 01:58PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2YPGrhc

The YouTube Candidate: How Joey Salads Could Meme His Way Into Congress Joseph Saladino — better known as Joey Salads, internet prankster — is half-naked when he opens the door. I’m a little shocked, but I’m more relieved to learn that this is not a prank. July 11, 2019 at 01:43PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2xEjr8X

Instagrammers Are Swarming This Turquoise Lake. It's Actually A Toxic Dump "We ask that in the pursuit of the selfie, not to fall into the ash dump!" July 11, 2019 at 01:23PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2xIz27y

The Dating Algorithm That Gives You Just One Match The Marriage Pact is designed to help college students find their perfect “backup plan.” July 11, 2019 at 01:13PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2XExvdb

The Snakes That Ate Florida In the Everglades, everything still looks the same. The waving saw grass, the cypress and pine trees draped with air plants, the high, white clouds parked like dirigibles above their shadows. But now there is also a weird quiet. July 11, 2019 at 01:08PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2YMk9g5

Why Humans Were Inevitable On Earth Our species emerged as a result of a mind-bending number of random events and mutations, but it may also have been inevitable that humans, or something like us, would walk the Earth. July 11, 2019 at 01:04PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2Ga8nF5

A Japanese Hotel Has Built A Lifesize Flight Simulator Into One Of Its Rooms An overnight stay in the room, situated in the Tokyo airport-adjacent Haneda Excel Hotel Tokyu, will cost you around $233. July 11, 2019 at 01:04PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2YQWMSI

The Tow Truck Turf War And The Driver Left For Dead July 11, 2019 at 12:53PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2XZjcE3

London And Oslo Took On Cars, But The Key Was Investing In Alternatives Whether cities choose congestion pricing or regulations, they must expand transit, cycling, and pedestrian spaces July 11, 2019 at 12:53PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2JvIm3O

Behold, The Millennial Nuns More and more young women are being called to the religious life, after 50 straight years of decline. What on earth is going on? July 11, 2019 at 12:48PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2XZikiL

Six Degrees of Separation at Burning Man What our experiment in the desert taught us about social networks and human cooperation. July 11, 2019 at 12:48PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2XIbCcS