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Saturday, 2 February 2019

Life Comes At You Fast

Saturday's top stories are here.
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The White Flight From Football, Breakfast Is Not The Most Important Meal Of The Day, Scientists Confirm, and more.
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Morning · Sat, Feb 02
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A REVERSAL OF FORTUNE
'IT'S GOING TO HELP HIM IN COLLEGE'
The White Flight From Football
theatlantic.com
Parents know that football comes with a risk of brain damage. But many black families feel that the sport is still the best option for their kids.
*SIPS TEA*
Breakfast Is Not The Most Important Meal Of The Day, Scientists Confirm
vox.com
Cereal companies created a myth about the first meal of the day. Researchers keep debunking it.
WHEN YOU'RE SUDDENLY THE BOSS
What Happens When You Age Out Of The Cool Kids' Club At Work
melmagazine.com
The early-twenties debauchery is easy to let go. What's harder is accepting that you're no longer hip.
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ON A LIGHTER NOTE
'THE DOG OF THE SOUTH'
The Funniest Book You've Never Heard Of Is Turning 40
theringer.com
Adored by generations of writers as well as the likes of Bill Hader and the Coen brothers, this wonder of American literature is four decades old this year. How is it that this absurd and hilarious 1979 novel can say so much about our current collective psyche?
BUST DOWN JOHN MULANEY, BUST DOWN
This Week's Best Memes, Ranked
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It's an internet fight and only the funniest meme will emerge victorious. This week's challengers? Mulaney, Shaggy, Thotiana and Fyre Fest.
THEY'RE TRYING TO CHANGE FOR THE BETTER
'Family Guy' Is 20 Years Old And America Still Can't Decide If It Sucks
vice.com
Seth MacFarlane's animated sitcom has been offending people for 20 years, today.
LOOKING GOOD
DRAW THE LINE
The Evolution Of The Alphabet, And More Of The Week's Coolest Design
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Waves made out of 168,000 used straws, a clever poster campaign for breast cancer awareness and other coolest design of the week.
PICTURE THIS
The Beach Bums Of Tel Aviv, And More Of The Best Photography Of The Week
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The Arctic village with satellite TV and no running water, the first albinism Kenya pageant and other best photos of the week.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
HYSTERICAL
This Dog That Just Went Swimming, Uh, Got Some Water Up His Keister
digg.com
Is this the most high-brow content we've ever published? No. But is it hilarious? Yes, and that's what counts.
FROM THE DIGG STORE
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Thank a groundhog today.

Friday, 1 February 2019

One Month Down, 11 To Go

After switching to the AMC Stubs A-List service, I found myself, for some reason, going to the movies less than before.
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Morning · Fri, Feb 01
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DON'T LET LIFE PASS YOU BY
DIFFERENT FRAME OF MIND
What I Miss About MoviePass
digg.com
After switching to the AMC Stubs A-List service, I found myself, for some reason, going to the movies less than before.
WOAH... IT'S LIKE YOU CAN SEE TIME
A Wall Calendar Will Change Your Life
thecut.com
I can always depend on the healing qualities of organization to make me feel like I'm regaining power. And this is why I love my wall calendar.
WE MISS VIN ALREADY
Here's The First Trailer For 'Hobbs & Shaw,' The Rock And Jason Statham's 'Fast & Furious' Spin-Off
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Yup, they're getting their own movie sans-'Fast' familia. Maybe the producers realized that between Statham, Diesel and Johnson, there was way too much BGE (bald guy energy) to keep in one movie.
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THE BRANDS ARE STRONG
WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK
The Future Of Logo Design Is Squished, 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: The logos have gone from spaced-out to squished, Lego is a commodity and every brand wants to be inside the Instagram Egg.
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The Untold History Of Budweiser's 'Whassup?' Super Bowl Commercial
melmagazine.com
How a grainy VHS tape became one of the most famous ads of all time — and went viral before viral was even a thing.
IT'S NOW IMPOSSIBLE TO TURN OFF THEIR BIZ
I Cut Microsoft Out Of My Life — Or So I Thought
gizmodo.com
Microsoft is virtually impossible to completely avoid without also retreating from society entirely, which, at least for me, isn't an option.
STUCK IN PLACE
COOPED-UP WITH CORTISOL
Cabin Fever Is Real
theatlantic.com
In extreme cold, people are lucky to have shelter — but being cooped up for days brings its own psychological stresses.
GOTTA GET UP, GOTTA GET OUT...
What The Reviews Have To Say About 'Russian Doll,' Natasha Lyonne's Time-Looping Netflix Show
digg.com
Sure, Netflix is dropping the show on February 1, and any time-loop story is inevitably going to draw some "Groundhog Day" comparisons, but the trailer has us hoping that Lyonne, Leslye Headland and Amy Poehler have a few more tricks up their sleeves...
THREE HOTS AND A COT
Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail
bbc.com
Japan is in the grip of an elderly crime wave — the proportion of crimes committed by people over the age of 65 has been steadily increasing for 20 years.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
A BIRD'S GOTTA EAT
Holy Crap, We Didn't Expect This Owl To Be Such A Lethal Killer
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For us, owls may be all cuteness and associations with magic and Hogwarts. For the mouse that has just been swallowed whole, not so much.
IN THE NEWS
Trump, In Interview, Calls Wall Talks 'Waste Of Time' And Dismisses Investigations
Cory Booker Joins The 2020 Presidential Race
FBI Warned Law Enforcement Agencies Of Threat Posed By Non-Existent 'Pro-Choice Extremists'
Apple Blocks Google From Running Its Internal iOS Apps
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Yes, we're only a month into 2019. We can't believe it either.