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  • Crying to Your Favorite Sad Songs Is Good for You
    Crying is a great way to let out all your pent up emotions and, according to a new study, boost your mood considerably. All you need is a sad song that gets the tears flowing.Read more...
    - 12 Apr 17, 11:45pm -
  • How Negative Thinkers Can Train Themselves to Stop Being Grumps
    Positive thinking has a ton of benefits, from expanding your creativity to boosting your health, but if you’re prone to a more negative outlook, it can be hard to see the glass as half full. Here’s how you can retrain your brain to become a more…
    - 12 Apr 17, 11:00pm -
  • Are Video Games Keeping You Unemployed?
    Video games keep getting more complex and visually appealing, so it’s no wonder more people are drawn to them nowadays. But this new era of compelling digital entertainment could have a dark side for unemployed young men.Read more...
    - 12 Apr 17, 10:10pm -
  • The Grapevine Comedians Pay Tribute to Charlie Murphy | Deadspin The Browns Can’t Possibly Fuck This
    The Grapevine Comedians Pay Tribute to Charlie Murphy | Deadspin The Browns Can’t Possibly Fuck This Up...Right? | Jezebel Woman Charged for Having Sex With Dogs Claims She Didn’t Know It Was Illegal | Fusion Black Panther & The Crew Is What…
    - 12 Apr 17, 9:57pm -
  • Five Umami Bombs You Should Always Have Stocked In Your Kitchen
    “Umami,” also known as “the fifth taste,” is a flavor that is kind of hard to describe. It’s savory, but not salty, though it is usually accompanied by salt. It’s been described as “meaty,” “mushroom-y,” and “brothy,” but I pr…
    - 12 Apr 17, 9:00pm -
  • I'm Brad Smith, CEO of Intuit, and This Is How I Work
    Brad Smith knows karate. Not “business karate” or any overwrought metaphor about teamwork; he literally teaches karate. Or at least he used to before he became chairman and CEO of Intuit.Read more...
    - 12 Apr 17, 8:44pm -
  • How to Prevent iMessages From Accidentally Appearing On Other Devices
    If you own multiple Apple devices, you’ve probably signed into all of them with your Apple ID. You’ve also probably noticed that when you get a Facetime call your computer rings, or when you get an iMessage your iPad beeps. For most of us, this i…
    - 12 Apr 17, 6:13pm -
  • Microwaving Your Tea Boosts Its Antioxidants, But How Does It Taste?
    It’s been a rough news week, and it’s only Wednesday. Fortunately, though, today’s raging controversy is about tea. Is it okay to microwave it? Is it better to microwave it? Australian research says yes, while tea aficionados worldwide recoil i…
    - 12 Apr 17, 5:30pm -
  • These Are Your Favorite Home Theater Surge Protectors
    After some charged debate in this week’s nomination round, three models surged past the competition in our hunt for the best home theater surge protector. Check out the finalists below, and don’t forget to vote at the bottom of the post.Read more…
    - 12 Apr 17, 4:50pm -
  • Tape That Allen Wrench to the Bottom of Whatever It Came With
    There’s never an Allen wrench around when you need one, which is why they come with nearly every Ikea item. But years down the line, when you need to disassemble that TÄRENDÖ or even tighten a few bolts, it’s disappeared again.Read more...
    - 12 Apr 17, 4:00pm -

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  • From vibranium to unobtainium: the periodic table of made-up stuff
    Science fiction has always needed materials that don't exist. How else do you explain a lightsaber, power a warp drive, or make a superhero's shield indestructible? Over a century of storytelling has produced a shadow periodic table of invented eleme…
    - 2 hours ago 14 Dec 25, 9:09pm -
  • Hero wrestles gun from terrorist at Bondi Beach
    It's been a terrible week for gun violence, both here and around the world. Early Sunday, two shooters opened fire at Australia's Bondi Beach, killing 15 people. Most people run from danger — understandably. Plenty of armchair commandos and…
    - 3 hours ago 14 Dec 25, 9:00pm -
  • Social media posts may stop you from visiting the United States
    Despite travel warnings from your government, are you thinking about visiting the United States? Can you remember posting anything on Facebook, Xitter, or Bluesky about Trump's love for creating trauma in young people, the notion that white isn't the…
    - 3 hours ago 14 Dec 25, 8:55pm -
  • Pixel 10 Pro Fold replaces laptop for digital nomad productivity
    I am a mobile productivity junkie. Living as a nomad for over a decade, I have tried and replaced a variety of mobile productivity solutions. I've got a laptop, sure. But I'm always on the lookout for a setup that allows me to leave my PC behind and…
    - 3 hours ago 14 Dec 25, 8:49pm -
  • Book data reveals most readers quit almost immediately
    In 2014, mathematician Jordan Ellenberg invented a way to quantify something publishers and authors had long suspected: most people don't finish the books they buy. He called it the Hawking Index, named after Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Tim…
    - 6 hours ago 14 Dec 25, 5:21pm -
  • North Korea's zoo features a smoking chimp and a dog trained to use an abacus
    The Korea Central Zoo in Pyongyang offers visitors a unique blend of wildlife and ideology. Among its 5,000 animals across 650 species, you can find Azalea, a cigarette-smoking chimpanzee, basketball-playing monkeys, doves incorporated into a figure…
    - 6 hours ago 14 Dec 25, 5:12pm -
  • The Roman who promised to die for Caligula and lived to regret it
    Publius Afranius Potitus learned the hard way that some promises should come with fine print. The Roman plebeian publicly vowed to sacrifice his own life if Emperor Caligula recovered from a serious illness that struck just six months into his reign.…
    - 6 hours ago 14 Dec 25, 5:08pm -
  • The British pastry named after its resemblance to dead insects
    At some point in British culinary history, someone looked at a pastry filled with currants and raisins and thought: those look exactly like dead flies. Rather than keeping this observation to themselves, they told everyone, and now "flies' graveyard"…
    - 7 hours ago 14 Dec 25, 4:56pm -
  • This all-in-one AI studio is here to tidy up your creativity
    TL;DR: Get lifetime access to the Creatiyo All-in-One AI Creation Platform Pro Limited Plan for $79 (reg. $199) and turn ideas into finished work faster, neater, and with far fewer "wait… what was I doing?" moments.If your idea of content creat…
    - 8 hours ago 14 Dec 25, 4:00pm -
  • Why do bookstores make some people urgently need the bathroom?
    In 1985, a 29-year-old Tokyo woman named Mariko Aoki wrote to a Japanese magazine called Book Magazine with an embarrassing confession: for years, walking around bookstores had inevitably made her need to rush to the bathroom. The editors published h…
    - 23 hours ago 14 Dec 25, 12:30am -

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