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Behind The Scenes At Earth's Most Beautiful Rocket Launch Site Rocket Lab's Launch Complex-1 is *not* easy to get to — but the views are worth any lost sleep. August 26, 2019 at 08:54PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2ZjbXbI

25 Years Later, 'natural Born Killers' Still Has Nothing To Teach Us About Violence Back in 1994, Oliver Stone wanted to make a big, bold satire about serial killers, celebrity and the media. But in light of our recent deadly shootings, the film just feels hollower than ever. August 26, 2019 at 08:49PM Continue: https://ift.tt/33YWqfQ

Judge Rules Against Johnson & Johnson In Landmark Opioid Case In Oklahoma Calling the opioid crisis an "imminent danger and menace," District Judge Thad Balkman said "the state met its burden that the defendants Janssen and Johnson & Johnson's misleading marketing and promotion of opioids created a nuisance as defined by [the law]." August 26, 2019 at 08:49PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2U6d1tJ

Learn To Rock Out On Guitar With This Clever App Fender Play is an excellent tool for anyone interested in learning to play the guitar. Best of all, you can try it out for free on iPhone, iPad or Android. August 26, 2019 at 08:44PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2LdcOAE

The 50 Greatest Coming-of-Age Novels When you're young, you don't measure time in calendar years — you measure it in school years. So, as we embark on a new one, the Literary Hub office put their heads together to consider some of the greatest coming-of-age novels ever written. August 26, 2019 at 07:49PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2NxsnpD

The Untrue But Prevailing Joy of Back-to-School Weather I was at the park over the weekend when I felt it — a fragrant, earthy chill interrupting the warmth. It felt like possibility. It felt like inspiration. It felt like erasers. It felt like pens. August 26, 2019 at 07:34PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2U6MPPG

China's Spies Are On The Offensive China's spies are waging an intensifying espionage offensive against the United States. Does America have what it takes to stop them? August 26, 2019 at 07:24PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2Ld3EV3

Did a Brooklyn Home’s Tunnel Provide Passage to Escaped Slaves? Underground Railroad participation is hard to prove. Activists battling to save 227 Duffield Street from demolition say its fate will show what New York values. August 26, 2019 at 07:24PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2MF7IjZ

A Podcast Digging Up Environmental Stories In The South Season One of "Broken Ground" gives the mic to Southerners on the front lines of today’s environmental issues. You'll hear first-hand stories from those facing environmental injustices and rising above challenges. August 26, 2019 at 07:19PM Continue: https://ift.tt/30z1RA4

No, You Can't Just Nuke A Hurricane. But There Are Other Options Scientists are looking into ways to weaken hurricanes to limit their destruction. Scientists are looking into ways to weaken hurricanes to limit their destruction. August 26, 2019 at 06:54PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2ZsTXLd

Inside The Deeply Weird Fake Seed Scams That Are All Over Amazon Amazon has a well-documented fake item problem, from counterfeit versions of AirPods, books, and designer clothes to items that simply do not exist at all. Unfortunately, a packet of "blue strawberry seeds" — yes, strawberries that are blue — is one of the latter. August 26, 2019 at 06:49PM Continue: https://ift.tt/33UIraV

What's Wrong With This Picture? Commuter rail stations in the San Francisco Bay Area should be some of the most valuable land in the region (and by extension, the world). So why are there so many parking lots and one-story buildings right next to them? August 26, 2019 at 06:34PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2HrWsTF

Unfulfilled At The Amazon Tour The tech behemoth recently opened its doors so visitors could see for themselves how happy and not-dead its workers are. August 26, 2019 at 05:59PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2HrDbSh

What Would Jesus Eat? How a Sketchy 'Biblical' Diet Was Sold to MAGA America Inside the rise and fall of a popular diet marketed as "Donald Trump's Plan to Make America Thin Again." August 26, 2019 at 04:34PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2ZqX1aJ

I Understand Why Andrew Luck Retired, Because I've Been In His Shoes Retired NFL lineman Geoff Schwartz describes just how awful it feels to go through the rigors of constant rehab. August 26, 2019 at 04:20PM Continue: https://ift.tt/349zHxM

An Iconic Diner May Soon Be Developed Into Housing. The Owner Couldn’t Be More Relieved. Preservationists in Denver wanted to save Tom’s. The problem: Tom didn’t want to be saved. August 26, 2019 at 04:20PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2U1TdaA

The Spy In Your Wallet: Credit Cards Have A Privacy Problem In a privacy experiment, we bought one banana with the new Apple Card — and another with the Amazon Prime Rewards Visa from Chase. Here’s who tracked, mined and shared our data. August 26, 2019 at 04:20PM Continue: https://ift.tt/342ZN5h

10,000-year-old Beans Could Avert The Catastrophe Lurking In Our Food Greedy modern crops suck nutrients out of soils at a terrifying rate. Now researchers are turning to ancient crops to find more sustainable ways of growing food August 26, 2019 at 04:20PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2U1TFWk

There's No Room In The Residence Halls At Virginia Tech. That's Why Freshmen Are At Hotels Swamped with a surge of incoming freshmen it hadn't foreseen, Virginia Tech this summer tried all kinds of dorm-maximizing tricks to squeeze in its largest class ever. But when dorm space ran out, it shunted more than 500 students into a pair of hotels. August 26, 2019 at 04:05PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2U3ZP8u

Disappearing Act: Device Vanishes On Command After Military Missions A polymer that self-destructs? While once a fictional idea, new polymers now exist that are rugged enough to ferry packages or sensors into hostile territory and vaporize immediately upon a military mission's completion. August 26, 2019 at 03:44PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2HsV2s7

New Orleans Police Claim Not To Use Facial Recognition Tech. Emails Reveal That’s Not Totally True In at least one NOPD investigation, facial recognition was used to identify and indict a suspect. August 26, 2019 at 03:29PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2KVCUJs

Whoa, This Stylish Chore Coat Is Actually Made From Hemp And Organic Cotton As it turns out, you can look good and be eco-conscious at the same time. Made from a hemp and organic cotton blend with a little spandex thrown in for stretch, it's hard to find anything to dislike here. August 26, 2019 at 02:59PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2ZoczvD

Lambda School's For-Profit Plan To Solve Student Debt By now, the tagline "free until you get a job" has burrowed deep into not only the subconscious of Silicon Valley investors, but basically anyone who has Googled "how to learn programming" in the past three years. But it’s also, largely, an untested model. August 26, 2019 at 02:39PM Continue: https://ift.tt/2HtvfzY