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Tuesday, 3 January 2017

Be Careful On The Hippie Trail

A young man quit his cushy startup job and took up adventuring. Three years later, he disappeared on a mountain in Northern India.
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FAR FROM HOME
A SOBER UTOPIA
A Radical Experiment To End Homelessness
psmag.com
In a remote corner of Colorado, an initiative is underway to rehabilitate the state's most downtrodden residents.
WHEN NOMADS GO MISSING
Death On The Hippie Trail
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A young man quit his cushy startup job and took up adventuring. Three years later, he disappeared on a mountain in Northern India.
GOODBYE BAKU
How To Erase A Neighborhood
motherboard.vice.com
Sovetsky, a historic neighborhood in Baku, Azerbaijan, has been demolished as the city restyles itself as a shiny metropolis similar to Dubai.
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FROM HERE TO THERE
CHOO CHOO CHOOSE THIS ROUTE
This Map Reveals The Ultimate Sub-$250 US Train Trip
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For those about to ride the rails, we salute you.
'TRAIN SURFERS'
WATCH: The Boys Doing Dangerous Stunts On High-Speed Trains
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Follow a group of young men who are risking their lives for a chance at feeling the wind in their hair on Mumbai's high-speed railway in this AFI-honored short.
JUNO WHAT I'M SAYIN'
An MIT Study Says 3,000 Ride-Shares Could Replace Every NYC Cab
theverge.com
There are 13,000 licensed taxis in operation in New York City. Dropping that number down to 3,000 cars takes some carpooling — and an algorithm.
THE JIG IS UP
FOODPOCALYPSE NOW
There's A Massive Restaurant Industry Bubble, And It's About To Burst
thrillist.com
RIP independent sit-down restaurants.
SO-KALLED 'TRUTH'
Anatomy Of A Hoax
chronicle.com
How a group of humanists fell for a physicist's sham article, and why it still matters.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
THE SHIT HITS THE FAN
A Hilariously Gross Short About Pooping In Public
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A good way to avoid situations like this one is to never leave the house.
IN THE NEWS
House Republicans Vote To Rein In Independent Ethics Office
Finland Starts Guaranteed Basic Income Trial Program For The Unemployed
In France, Organs Will Now Be Donated By Default
CNN Showed A Computer From 'Fallout' In A Russian Hacking Story
China Says It Will Shut Down Its Ivory Trade In 2017
We're still writing 2016 on our newsletters.

Monday, 2 January 2017

Tumblr Is Not For Work

Harry Dexter White made a name for himself organizing the world's most important economic conference, only to have it tarnished by an outrageous accusation.
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SECRET LIVES
INTERNATIONAL MONETARY DISORDER
The Soviet Spy Behind The Bretton Woods Conference
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Harry Dexter White made a name for himself organizing the world's most important economic conference, only to have it tarnished by an outrageous accusation.
OVER THE EDGE
Bankruptcy, Suicide And A Billion-Dollar Tech Dream
thestar.com
A charming financier used a promising Canadian tech startup in a global investment scheme to ensnare savvy investors and Bay Street executives. But when the funding dried up, the dream came crashing down.
TUMBLING OUT OF EVERYTHING
There Is A Lot Of Porn On Tumblr
motherboard.vice.com
A new study found that nearly a quarter of Tumblr users directly consume or produce porn on the site, while another 28% are exposed to porn indirectly.
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The Mattress Industry Doesn't Want You To Learn These 3 Secrets (So Here They Are)
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Here's the deal, most mattress retailers charge you 6-12x their manufacturing costs, plus you have to deal with a cheesy salesman pressuring you to buy. Cue Lull, the smarter way to buy a mattress — online with free shipping to your doorstep and a 100-night trial.
HITTING THE SWEET SPOT
A BITTERSWEET EXPERIMENT
A Month Without Sugar
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"It wasn't easy, but it was worth it. It reset my sugar-addled taste buds and opened my eyes to the many products that needlessly contain sugar"
RUB A DUB DUB
WATCH: Lynx Gets All Sleepy-Happy While Caretaker Gives Him His Morning Brushing
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Max has truly appreciated the extra help as he sheds his winter coat.
THE WOMAN IN THE MACHINE
Why Do Bots Have A Gender?
newyorker.com
As AI bot writers like me have struggled to create entities whose fundamental quality — captivity — must entice consumers rather than unnerve them, some have alighted on gender as a solution.
BIG TECH TO THE RESCUE
HIT THE ROAD, TECH
In 2017, Cars Will Be At The Frontier Of Technology
theverge.com
The biggest shift in the perception of the automobile in America is that in 2016 cars became part of the tech industry's mission.
ATTACKING THE FIBER OF THEIR BEING
How Amazon, Google, And Facebook Will Bring Down Telecom Companies
wired.com
If you hate big telecoms, you'll feel schadenfreude at their demise. But you might end up with more of the same as the new guard becomes the old guard.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
FLASH FROM THE PAST
How Old-School CRT TV Screens Worked, Illustrated At 1000 FPS
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We don't really use cathode ray tube (CRT) TVs anymore, but this slow motion video shows how the screen refreshes to display moving images. It's pretty cool.
IN THE NEWS
ISIS Claims Responsibility For Istanbul Nightclub Attack That Killed 39
The Titanic May Have Actually Sank Due To An Enormous Fire
Hollywood Sign Vandalized To Read 'Hollyweed'
Man Files Lawsuit Against Tesla Claiming His Model X Spontaneously Accelerated Into His Living Room
New year. New you? Same us. Hey.

Sunday, 1 January 2017

The Best Videos Of 2017 (So Far)

The Most Awkward TV News Bloopers Of 2016, Maybe Don't Let Your Kid Talk To Your Amazon Echo, The Mattress Industry Doesn't Want You To Learn These 3 Secrets (So Here They Are), Watch A Prince Rupert's Drop Shatter A Bullet, This Cardistry Pro Is So Good We've Forgotten The Laws That Govern Reality, This Domino Brick Laying Technique Is The Most Satisfying Thing You'll Watch Today
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Sunday, January 1, 2017
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The Most Awkward TV News Bloopers Of 2016
YOU CAN'T SAY THIS SHIT ON TV
The Most Awkward TV News Bloopers Of 2016
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​If you paid close attention to TV news in 2016, you probably had a rough year. As a recourse, here are all the slips of the tongue, ill-advised double entendres, and run-ins with derpy animals that make the local news what it is.
SUCH A DIRTY MOUTH, ALEXA
Maybe Don't Let Your Kid Talk To Your Amazon Echo
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This kid just wanted Alexa to play "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" for him. He got something very, very different.
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The Mattress Industry Doesn't Want You To Learn These 3 Secrets (So Here They Are)
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Here's the deal, most mattress retailers charge you 6-12x their manufacturing costs, plus you have to deal with a cheesy salesman pressuring you to buy. Cue Lull, the smarter way to buy a mattress — online with free shipping to your doorstep and a 100-night trial.
FILMED AT 150,000 FPS
Watch A Prince Rupert's Drop Shatter A Bullet
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Seeing the (glass) Prince Rupert's Drop obliterate a bullet is pretty cool, even if it ends up shattering itself after the impact.
GOTTA HAND IT TO HIM
This Cardistry Pro Is So Good We've Forgotten The Laws That Govern Reality
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We've posted a lot of videos of this same kid doing card illusions and, ya know what? We're gonna keep doing it because it's magical every time.
JUST WATCH IT
This Domino Brick Laying Technique Is The Most Satisfying Thing You'll Watch Today
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And we say that as connoisseurs of everything satisfying.
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IT'S SUPERHUMAN
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Tesla autopilot reacts insanely quick to a crash. Credit: DVHardware via Gizmodo
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