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Saturday 27 January 2018

Be A Doll

Chefs who'd rather not cook with meat for whatever reason shouldn't be made to feel like they're showing up with a rubber knife to a gunfight.
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Morning · Sat, Jan 27
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CHEW IT OVER
SQUASHING THE BEEF
Where Are All The Vegetarian TV Shows?
thrillist.com
Chefs who'd rather not cook with meat for whatever reason shouldn't be made to feel like they're showing up with a rubber knife to a gunfight.
A FEAST FOR THE EYES
'Phantom Thread' Is The Best Food Movie In Ages
newyorker.com
In Paul Thomas Anderson's story of an obsessive couturier and the woman who fights to love him, the kitchen is a site of pleasure and war.
THE HUNGRY MONSTER
Can Planet Earth Feed 10 Billion People?
theatlantic.com
Humanity has 30 years to find out.
MONSTER: IT CLIPS YOUR WINGS
The Monsters At Monster
huffingtonpost.com
The women say they were bullied, harassed and even assaulted. They're out of work, but the men who allegedly behaved badly? They still have jobs.
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THE WEEK IN PHOTOS
PICTURE THIS
The Best Photography Of The Week
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The Spanish ghost towns that Hollywood left behind, a fantastic feast with elephants and flamingos, and the coldest city in the world.
WHEN GALAXIES COLLIDE
The Week's Coolest Space Images
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Every day satellites are zooming through space, snapping incredible pictures of Earth, the solar system and outer space. Here are the highlights from this week.
BODIES OF EVIDENCE
SHAMING IN GAMING
How Video Games Demonize Fat People
theoutline.com
In 2018, the AAA video game remains our most persuasive and powerful cultural product. And yet it almost exclusively depicts the fat body, my body, as a noxious threat, a monstrosity, an object of ridicule, something to be dealt with violently. But why?
A REAL FUCKER-UPPER
The Mr. Fix-Its Who Save Broken Sex Dolls
melmagazine.com
Manufacturers don't want to get their hands dirty, so these Real Doll artisans come to the rescue
A MATTER OF TASTE
Do I Dare to Eat A Tide Pod?
nymag.com
What literally eating poison says about the state of meme culture.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
MAGNETS ARE MAGIC
Whoa, Magnets Can Do Some Pretty Crazy Stuff When They Get Near Copper
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Copper isn't magnetic, but its electrons can generate enough resistance to make magnets literally float.
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It's the last weekend of January. You made it.

Friday 26 January 2018

Please Remove Your Hat

Hats are fun. They make you look nice and they can keep you warm. So what's the harm in always wearing one?
Digg Editions
Morning · Fri, Jan 26
WHAT COMPLACENCY GETS YOU
APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE HEAD
What Would Happen If You Never Took Off Your Hat?
digg.com
Hats are fun. They make you look nice and they can keep you warm. So what's the harm in always wearing one?
JET SET ON GOING NOWHERE
The Lost Art Of Staying Put
thebaffler.com
We've been fed a bunch of fake reasons to travel by evil geniuses determined to use up all the fossil fuels as fast as possible, so as to coerce us all into accepting nuclear power as soon as possible.
WHAT 'BAD SEX' MEANS FOR WOMEN
The Female Price Of Male Pleasure
theweek.com
The world is disturbingly comfortable with the fact that women sometimes leave a sexual encounter in tears.
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THERE ARE DAMORE
The Dirty War Over Diversity Inside Google
wired.com
Advocates of greater diversity at Google say they are being harassed and targeted on right-wing websites.
WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK
The Wind Is Making Planes Fly Faster, And Other Facts
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Welcome to What We Learned This Week, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: Jets are flying faster, social media is forcing mountain bikers to send it higher and Facebook has finally gone too far.
GETTING SMASHED IN NORTH KOREA
Inside The Growing, Booze-Fueled Market Of Dark Tourism
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For just $2,500, you too could be responsible for a geopolitical calamity.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
POIGNANT AND MOVING
Rat Overlords Create Emotionally Intelligent Robots In This Gorgeously Animated Short Film
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"As EI units we are doomed to love."
IN THE NEWS
Trump Ordered Mueller Fired, But Backed Off When White House Counsel Threatened To Quit
CNN Is Closing Down Beme, YouTube Star Casey Neistat's Video Company
White House Asks For Van Gogh Loan – But Guggenheim Offers Gold Toilet Instead
Life May Have Been Possible In Earth's Earliest, Most Hellish Eon
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From all of us at Digg, here's to a short Friday and a merciful Sunday. Have a lovely weekend.