Science The Amazon Fires Are PoliticalThe Atlantic - Robinson MeyerThe fires blazing in Brazil are part of a larger deforestation crisis, accelerated by President Jair Bolsonaro. The Amazon is burning. There have been more than 74,000 fires across Brazil this year, and
Vaping Years ago, this doctor linked a mysterious lung disease to vapingNBC News - Victoria Knight, Kaiser Health NewsIn 2015, a West Virginia doctor treated a patient with vaping-linked breathing problems. Dr. John E. Parker was working at a West Virginia hospital in 2015 when a 31-year-old female patient was admitted
Apple Watch If you're not using AirDrop on your iPhone yet, you're sorely missing outCNET - by Patrick Holland We show you how to set up, use and even troubleshoot AirDrop.
Play buttonAviation FAA threatens $25,000 fine for weaponizing dronesTechCrunch - Devin ColdeweyIt’s perfectly natural for a red-blooded American to, once they have procured their first real drone, experiment with attaching a flame thrower to it. But it turns out that this harmless hobby is frowned
Quentin Tarantino Tarantino's gruesome revenge fantasies are growing more puerile and misogynisticThe Guardian - Caspar SalmonCompare and contrast two screen deaths. In Quentin Tarantino’s second film, Pulp Fiction in 1994, John Travolta’s Vincent Vega accidentally shoots Marvin, a minor character, in the face. The killing happens
Vaping Illinois patient's death may be first in US tied to vapingAssociated Press - By DON BABWIN and MIKE STOBBE, Associated PressCHICAGO (AP) — Health officials said Friday that an Illinois patient who contracted a serious lung disease after vaping has died and that they consider it the first death in the United States linked to
David Koch David Koch Escaped the Climate Hell He Helped CreateGizmodo - Brian Kahn The billionaire died this week at age 79 of causes yet unknown. While he certainly enjoyed the fruits of his labors to deregulate U.S. industry and …
Lightroom The Best Lightroom Tool For Improving Composition in Photospetapixel.com - Mark Denney How many times have you returned from what you felt was a productive photography trip only to find that some of the compositions of your favorite …
Tesla Forget range anxiety, this couple drove across the country in a TeslaMashable - Sasha LekachVivianna and Peter Van Deerlin became something of Tesla evangelists after buying a Model S in 2012. They loved the car, its message, and the community around it so much they started volunteering at a
HomePod HomePod lands in Japan and TaiwanCult of Mac - Killian BellHomePod is now on sale in Japan and Taiwan for the first time. The smart speaker can be purchased from Apple Stores, the Apple Online Store, and from select cellphone retailers. HomePod is considered flop
IPad Pro iPad Pros are on sale for up to $199 off at WalmartMashable - Jayla AndrulonisSo there's good news and there's bad news. But let's start with the bad first, just like ripping off a Band-Aid, shall we? Summer is almost over. Yep, we don't know how it happened either. The good news
News Brazil's Government Is Wrong About The Fires In The Amazon, And This Data Proves Itbuzzfeednews.com - Tatiana Farah 2019 isn't a year of extreme drought like Bolsonaro's government has claimed. If that were the case, the number of forest fires we're seeing would be …
Debit Cards Why You Should Stop Paying For Gas With Your Debit CardForbes - Suzanne Rowan KelleherAnother week, another data breach. The latest happened at Hy-Vee, an Iowa-based chain of gas pumps, coffee shops and restaurants operating throughout the Midwest. Consequently, about 5.3 million stolen
Sleep Sleep better: how to fall back asleep when you wake up too earlyLadders - Shelly Ibach Welcome to Sleep Better, a new advice column to answer your most pressing questions about sleep — how to get more of it, how to improve the quality …
Geek Watch: Great White Sharks Swim Close to Oblivious SurfersGeek - By Genevieve Scarano Aerial footage captured by a photographer shows hydrofoil surfers riding yards away from great white sharks and they are completely unaware of the …
Emphysema Vaping linked to lung changes that cause emphysema in smokersslashgear.com - Brittany A. Roston The bad news about vaping continues to roll in with a new study from the University of North Carolina Health Care, where researchers identified …
Selfies People Who Post Selfies are Seen as Insecure & Less Likeable, Study Showspetapixel.com - DL Cade File this under “well… obviously” news. A new study conducted by Washington State University psychologists and published in the Journal of Research …
Amazon Basin Live updates: Rainforest fires in the Amazon - CNNCNN - Meg Wagner and Mike Hayes, CNNOur live coverage has ended. Here's what you need to know about the fires in Brazil: The Amazon is currently facing record-breaking wildfires: Brazil's space research center (INPE) said this week that
Instagram There really are more ads on Instagram nowMashable - Karissa BellFeel like Instagram has more ads than ever? It's not just you. Facebook executives last year instructed Instagram to "roughly double" the number of ads in the app, according to a new report in The Information.
Doxxing How to remove your data from people-finder sitesPopular Science - Whitson GordonYou may not realize this, but a lot of your personal information might be publicly available online to anyone who searches for you. This includes your name, age, address, phone number, email address, status,
This Simple iPhone Hack That Makes Your Music Play Louder Is Blowing The Internet's Mindbrobible.com - by Douglas Charles Are you one of those people who likes to listen to their music at an eardrum-splitting level? Or are you just one of us who basically blew out our …
Selfies Study: People Who Post Selfies Are Seen As Less Likeable, Insecurecbslocal.com - CBS New York PULLMAN, Wash. (CBS Local) — People who post more selfies than posies to their social media accounts tend to be viewed more negatively by others, a …
Great Pacific garbage patch This is what it's like to swim through the Great Pacific Garbage PatchNational Geographic - Mary Anne PottsLong-distance swimmer Ben Lecomte is helping collect scientific samples in a vortex of ocean plastic. Roughly a thousand miles southwest of San Francisco, Ben Lecomte, a 52-year-old French long-distance
Amazon You Probably Know The Amazon Is Burning - Here's Why It Matters To YouForbes - Marshall ShepherdI was not really paying attention to the fires in the Amazon until my daughter's high school volleyball coach Jason Berube, who is also a world history teacher at Dacula High School, asked me about it.
MicroplasticsMicroplastics in drinking water: UN's World Health Organization study finds more microplastics in bottled water than tapCBS News - Pamela Falk Just when you thought it was safe to drink bottled water, a new U.N. report raises concerns about what you may be consuming: tiny particles of …
Rivian This electric truck is the ultimate camping companion in new videoMashable - Stan SchroederElectric car startup Rivian has a new video out, and it will surely warm the hearts of outdoorsy types (who also don't mind high-tech solutions in their travels). Rivian's R1T electric pickup hasn't launched
News Vegan parents whose strict diet left baby 'severely malnourished' avoid jailCNN - By Jessie Yeung, CNN(CNN) — An Australian couple, who fed their baby daughter a strict vegan diet resulting in severe malnourishment, have avoided jail time, according to CNN affiliate Seven News. The mother and father, are
