Monday, March 5, 2018

The Hot, Hot Heartland

Thousands of people think that the government is using implanted chips and electronic beams to control their minds. They are desperate to prove they aren't delusional.
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THEY'RE COMING
MIND GAMES
The Tortured Lives Of 'Targeted Individuals'
wired.com
Thousands of people think that the government is using implanted chips and electronic beams to control their minds. They are desperate to prove they aren't delusional.
THE FASCIST CREEP
It Never Went Away
jacobinmag.com
In Italy, where fascism was born, far-right violence is a growing feature of political life once again.
HOPEFULLY
The Gun-Control Debate After Parkland
newyorker.com
This time feels different. Will things finally change?
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THE NEW WORLD
'OH MY GOD, THIS IS SO CUTE!'
Silicon Valley Is Over, Says Silicon Valley
nytimes.com
About a dozen venture capitalists recently took a bus tour through the Midwest, and a funny thing happened: They caught the heartland bug.
OVERFEEDING
Has Dopamine Got Us Hooked On Tech?
theguardian.com
Silicon Valley is keen to exploit the brain chemical credited with keeping us tapping on apps and social media.
GUST OF ENERGY
Scotland's Floating Wind Farm Is Showing How Powerful Offshore Wind Can Be
arstechnica.com
The turbines withstood some serious gusts.
'WHAT I FEEL IS DEEP SADNESS'
A Journey On A Caravan Of Misery
reuters.com
A Reuters reporter and photographer traveled with a group of migrants as they fled Venezuela, a nation in stomach-dropping free fall.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
DOES THAT COUNT AS SHUFFLING?
Slicing 10 Decks Of Cards With A Hydraulic Press Is So Much More Satisfying Than We Expected It To Be
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The Hydraulic Press Channel has found a whole new lease on life by attaching big blades to its namesake.
IN THE NEWS
Here Are The 2018 Oscar Winners
West Virginia Teachers Will Strike For Eighth Day
Trump Says Tariffs Will Come Off If New NAFTA Deal Is Signed
Kim Jong Un Welcomes South Korean Envoys To Dinner
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Happy Monday. You're finally free to talk about something besides Oscars movies.

Sunday, March 4, 2018

The Shaolin Show

A Shaolin Monk Throwing A Needle Through A Pane Of Glass Is One Of The Craziest Things We've Seen In A While, What Would Happen If You Tried To Bite Through A Chicken Bone?, All The Essentials, All For $3, Gambler Takes His $50k In Poker Winnings And Bets It All On One Spin Of Roulette, Dropping A Piece Of Ice Down A 90-Meter Antarctic Borehole Sounds So Much Cooler Than We Expected, Impatient Driver Uses Shoulder To Bypass An Undercover Cop, Gets Some Instant Karma
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Sunday, March 4, 2018
A Shaolin Monk Throwing A Needle Through A Pane Of Glass Is One Of The Craziest Things We've Seen In A While
THIS IS BONKERS
A Shaolin Monk Throwing A Needle Through A Pane Of Glass Is One Of The Craziest Things We've Seen In A While
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The Slow Mo Guys can make anything look cool, but they barely needed to do anything with this one — the needle doesn't shatter the glass pane, it literally goes straight through it.
A BONE TO PICK (WITH YOUR TEETH)
What Would Happen If You Tried To Bite Through A Chicken Bone?
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Finally, an answer to the one question everyone was asking in response to that one KFC ad from 2013.
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ONCE YOU GO BLACK...
Gambler Takes His $50k In Poker Winnings And Bets It All On One Spin Of Roulette
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After you win a poker tournament, what do you do with your spoils? If you're pro gambler Jake Cody, you go double or nothing and bet it all on black at the roulette table.
PEW PEW PEW
Dropping A Piece Of Ice Down A 90-Meter Antarctic Borehole Sounds So Much Cooler Than We Expected
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To be clear, we expected it to sound pretty cool, but the noise the ice makes when it hits the bottom of the borehole is unexpected and really nifty.
SOME NSFW LANGUAGE
Impatient Driver Uses Shoulder To Bypass An Undercover Cop, Gets Some Instant Karma
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If you've ever gotten angry at someone who tried to bypass traffic on the side of the road, here's some instant karma action for you.
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PLAYING PEEKABOO WITH GRIZZLIES
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We can't get over how casual this man is about wrestling two giant bears. Credit: Storyful Rights Management
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Saturday, March 3, 2018

Attack Of The Good Boy Clones

Rose McGowan suffered from the worst of the Hollywood machine and reclaimed her body and her narrative. But her all-for-one methods have alienated fellow activists.
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Morning · Sat, Mar 03
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TROUBLE IN TINSELTOWN
EVEN ROSE HAS HER THORNS
Under The Hollywood Gaslight
hazlitt.net
Rose McGowan suffered from the worst of the Hollywood machine and reclaimed her body and her narrative. But her all-for-one methods have alienated fellow activists.
GETTING TO THE WOKEN PLACE
'Get Out' Should Win Best Picture, But Does The Movie Actually Need The Oscars?
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The Jordan Peele-directed social thriller is already a crowning achievement in so many ways. Does it really need the Oscars to validate it?
THE FOUR SAMANTHAS
Barbra Streisand Explains: Why I Cloned My Dog
nytimes.com
Barbra Streisand had one wonderful dog. Then, sort of, she had four. She explains.
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SHOW ME THE MONEY
WE'VE GOT A COIN WE'D LIKE TO SELL YOU
Inside The Bizarre ICO Bubble
wired.co.uk
In the booming world of crypto startups, you don't need a business plan to get rich. You just need an idea, and a coin
WHERE THE WHITE PEOPLE ARE
These Are The Zip Codes That Have Gentrified The Most Since 2000
digg.com
This gentrification top 10 list might surprise you — Brooklyn doesn't show up till number 7.
'I'M EXTREMELY DISCOURAGED'
A Small Town Kept Walmart Out. Now It Faces Amazon
citylab.com
How can local businesses compete with a company so local it lets people shop from their couches?
EXCEPT THE PAUL BROTHERS, UNFORTUNATELY
Almost No One Is Making A Living On YouTube
washingtonpost.com
Reaching the top 3.5 percent of YouTube's most-viewed channels — which means at least 1 million video views a month — is worth only about $12,000 to $16,000 a year in advertising revenue.
THE WEEK IN PHOTOS
PICTURE THIS
The Best Photography Of The Week
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A 75-year-old Christian interracial farming experiment, the invisible glow of flowers and the world of Lebanon's top 1 percent.
THE JOVIAN 'TWILIGHT ZONE'
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.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
NOW THIS IS SOME GOOD CRAFTSMANSHIP
Whoever Designed This Cheat Sheet Eraser Is A Genius
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We're going to give her or him an A+ for sheer ingenuity.
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Tired: Having a chill weekend. Wired: Cloning your dog.