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The Audacity Of The WeWork IPO It is a document defined by audaciousness, both in terms of the company's vision and also the flagrant disregard for corporate governance norms by its leadership. And, of course, massive losses despite massive amounts of capital raised. I suspect all of these things are related. August 20, 2019 at 06:29PM Continue: https://ift.tt/30uOq4d

Cascara Is the Coffee Drinker’s Answer to Nose-to-Tail Eating There's a lot to love about cascara, a coffee-tea hybrid made by steeping the dried husks of coffee fruit in water. It's reasonably caffeinated, can be served hot or cold, and is the coffee industry’s answer to nose-to-tail eating. August 20, 2019 at 06:14PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2Zl1V8U

When The Donald Sterling Saga Rocked The NBA -- And Changed It Forever Donald Sterling had been a blight on the NBA for three decades. There were dozens of incidents that could have been grounds to kick him out of the league, but this tape was something else. August 20, 2019 at 05:59PM Continue: https://ift.tt/30jzdTb

The Overlooked Islands Of New York City Unearthing New York’s hidden histories, from buried bodies to heron sanctuaries. August 20, 2019 at 05:20PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2KM03hH

Why 'Star Wars,' And 'Doctor Who,' Had To Go Into The Wilderness To Survive Every endless franchise needs to get weird to survive and remain relevant. August 20, 2019 at 05:12PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2Z6QMcD

Colossal Crabs May Hold Clue To Amelia Earhart Fate Does the secret of the famed aviator’s disappearance lie in the underground haunts of the world’s largest land invertebrate? August 20, 2019 at 04:34PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2zcrcUa

Cloudflare Uses Lava Lamps To Generate A Fundamental Resource: Randomness "It turns out that computers are really bad at generating random numbers. The only thing worse than generating random numbers on computers is humans generating random numbers." August 20, 2019 at 04:25PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2PlsZS3

I Tried Prolon's Starvation Diet So You Wouldn't Have To A diet based on caloric restriction might make you live longer. It’ll certainly feel like longer. August 20, 2019 at 04:10PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2ZiGGVw

Silicon Valley's Crisis Of Conscience Inside Esalen, where Big Tech goes to ask deep questions (and do ketamine and have secret full-moon dance parties). August 20, 2019 at 03:54PM Continue: https://ift.tt/30osmYM

Nobody Knows Why Hundreds of People Died at This Creepy Himalayan Lake Hundreds of people mysteriously died over a millennium at "Skeleton Lake" in the Himalayas according to a new study, making the creepy location even more mysterious. August 20, 2019 at 03:26PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2NqN9Hk

The Puzzling Search for Perfect Randomness Does objective, perfect randomness exist, or is randomness merely a product of our ignorance? August 20, 2019 at 03:06PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2P3uNic

When a $2.1 Million Drug Could Cure Your Child’s Fatal Disease Gene therapy Zolgensma is the world’s most expensive medicine. Here’s how parents are fighting to get it. August 20, 2019 at 02:56PM Continue: https://ift.tt/30irfK4

Beware The Epiphany-Industrial Complex In an age when religion and philosophy are on the wane, social science has stepped in to fill a void. August 20, 2019 at 02:56PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2ZcXqNP

Virgin Plastic Pellets Are The Biggest Pollution Disaster You've Never Heard Of In a world where buying virgin plastic is often cheaper than using the recycled stuff, the new product will likely find an eager manufacturing market. And it will exist virtually forever, crumbling into microplastics that show up most everywhere scientists look for them. August 20, 2019 at 02:56PM Continue: https://ift.tt/30irbKk

In The Straits: The Story of the Inmate Turned Millionaire Turned Lone Survivor He was a convicted felon who found a niche in Seattle's construction boom. As the region's fortunes rose and fell — and rose again — so did his. Then a fatal boating accident came for Michael Powers' fairy-tale ending. August 20, 2019 at 02:41PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2P4Ndis

Trump, QAnon And An Impending Judgment Day: Behind The Facebook-fueled Rise Of The Epoch Times Started almost two decades ago with a stated mission to "provide information to Chinese communities to help immigrants assimilate into American society," The Epoch Times now wields one of the biggest social media followings of any news outlet. August 20, 2019 at 02:11PM Continue: https://ift.tt/30kMz1J

What Do Rally Playlists Say About The Candidates? Presidential campaigns have a sound. We analyzed the playlists of 10 presidential candidates to see how the songs align with their core message. August 20, 2019 at 01:34PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2Zfu7Gv

The World's Oldest Webcam Is Shutting Down After A Quarter Of A Century FogCam, which is believed to be the oldest webcam on the internet, will be shut down at the end of August after 25 years of near-continuous operation. August 20, 2019 at 01:24PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2zc1yyS

The Cult Of Columbine: How An Obsession With School Shooters Led To A Murder Plot How two lonely outsiders met online and discovered their passion — planning a massacre at a shopping mall. August 20, 2019 at 01:05PM Continue: https://ift.tt/30ljMKj

The Bondo Landslide and the Future of Climate Disasters Two years ago, a massive river of mud and granite swept over thousands of feet of alpine terrain, killing eight hikers before swamping the alpine village of Bondo, Switzerland. This type of disaster is often fueled by climate change, and it will happen again. August 20, 2019 at 12:59PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2zaVlmR