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Recipe: Cheesy Mashed Potato Puffs
The Kitchn - Faith Durand
Arrange a rack in the middle of oven and heat to 400°F. Lightly coat the cups of a mini-muffin tin with cooking spray or butter. Place the mashed …
A former Navy SEAL commander says you can transform your life with 5 simple choices in the next 24 hours
Business Insider - Richard Feloni
• Jocko Willink is a retired Navy SEAL commander, best-selling author, and popular podcast host.• His new book is a "field manual" for instilling discipline into your life.• He shared simple habits can
26 time-management tricks I wish I'd known at 20
Business Insider - Shana Lebowitz
Time-management skills can take a while to learn. Étienne Garbugli, a Montreal-based product and marketing consultant, the author of "Lean B2B: Build Products Businesses Want," and the creator of a course
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Everything you know about police shootings is wrong
New York Post - By Joseph Loughlin and Kate Flora
The woman with the advanced Harvard degree says, “Why did the cops shoot him so many times? Why not just wound him?” The sophisticated lawyer, …
Spam heists in Hawaii prompt retailers to put the wildly popular 'mystery meat' in locked cases
The Washington Post - By Fred Barbash
Last month in the Pearl City community on Oahu, Safeway customer Arlene Sua watched as a man suddenly grabbed eight cases of Spam and headed for the door. She thought “‘Okay, this isn’t real. No, he’s
Las Vegas, NV
Mystery hero who was seen saving lives in Las Vegas attack identified as young US soldier who ran back into danger zone
The Telegraph - By Helena Horton
A picture made its way around the world after the Las Vegas shooting, of a man who bravely shielded a woman from bullets with his body as the concert he was at turned into a warzone. Even as bullets rained
Tokyo Is Preparing for Floods ‘Beyond Anything We’ve Seen’
The New York Times - By HIROKO TABUCHI
KASUKABE, Japan — The cavernous underground cisterns here north of Tokyo could hold the Statue of Liberty, a scale that underscores the site’s immense task: protecting the world’s most populous metropolis
Apple's design chief thinks its about time you put down the iPhone
TNW - Bryan Clark
Speaking at The New Yorker’s annual tech shindig,TechFest, Apple design guru Jony Ive hit us with some hard truth: we’re using our phones too much. Granted, we didn’t need Ive to tell us this: multiple
Scientists Discover 60 Ancient Ships Preserved in the Black Sea
NBC News - Dan Corey
Science News Dozens of ancient ships scattered across the bottom of the Black Sea were discovered after a nearly three-year excursion that researchers are calling “one of the largest maritime archaeological
Technology
Equifax has been directing victims to a fake phishing site for weeks
Mashable - Jack Morse
In failing to correctly patch a known vulnerability and exposing the personal data of potentially 143 million Americans to hackers, Equifax made a security blunder of epic proportions — however, it appears
How California gun owners are legally keeping their AR-15 rifles
Fox News - Hollie McKay
It seems California lawmakers’ efforts to force rifle owners to register their personal details, or resort to cumbersome reloading or giving up their arms altogether, may have missed the mark. Although
Mexico Raid Uncovers Thousands of Gallons of Tainted Alcohol
NBC News - NBCNews.com
Authorities have seized 10,000 gallons of tainted alcohol after raiding more than 30 hotels and night clubs in popular tourist spots in Cancun and Playa Del Carmen. *An earlier version of this video mistakenly
Phone Survives Fall from Plane While Recording, Confuses Man on Ground
petapixel.com - Michael Zhang
A Tennessee man named Blake Henderson was recently flying in a small plane and recording some video of another plane on his Samsung Galaxy S5 when …
Black woman writes about getting a gun for protection. NY Times readers don't like that one bit.
TheBlaze
Antonia Okafor wanted a gun. During her first year of graduate school at the University of Texas, Dallas, she wrote in a New York Times op-ed that she worked during the day and took all her classes at
21 Classic Camping Tips From Field & Stream
fieldandstream.com - By H.G. Tapply
For 35 years, in each issue of Field & Stream, H.G. “Tap” Tapply served up tidbits of hard-earned outdoor knowledge, in his extremely popular “Tap’s …
The Brain
Harvard Study Shows Smoking Marijuana Improves Cognitive Function
Inc Magazine - Cynthia Than
Editor's note: This column has been updated to provide attribution to original sources. Preliminary evidence from a new study led by Harvard Medical School Affiliate McLean Hospital's Staci Gruber, PhD,
35 science jokes that are so cringe-worthy they might make a scientist groan
Business Insider - Dave Mosher
Whether it's charting the possible consequences of climate change, helping predict when we might die, or keeping tabs on nuclear weapons stockpiles, their work can take on a huge gravitas. But we all to
The horrors of communist China under Mao Zedong that most Westerners don't know about
Business Insider - Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.
How many died as a result of persecutions and the policies of Mao? Perhaps you care to guess? Many people over the years have attempted to guess. But they have always underestimated. As more data rolled
Erdogan urged use of 'legitimate' actors in Syria in talks with Tillerson - sources
Reuters - by Tulay Karadeniz
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan meets with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Ankara, Turkey March 30, 2017. Yasin Bulbul/Presidential Palace/Handout via REUTERS ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President
Artificial Intelligence
The Singularity Could Be Closer Than You Think
Inverse - By Madison Margolin
A.I. evolution may be decades away -- or happening already. Sci-fi depictions of the future would have us thinking of the singularity — when A.I …
The best ways to store marijuana: Containers, ideal conditions and more
Mic News - By Miles Klee
So, you've figured out how to get a medical card for marijuana, or just walked into a legal recreational pot shop. You've settled on how and where to …
Trunk Escape: Arrest Made in Kidnapping of Alabama Nursing Student Brittany Diggs
NBC News - Daniella Silva
U.S. news A man was arrested on Wednesday in connection with the kidnapping of an Alabama nursing student who was locked in the trunk of her car before a dramatic escape that was caught on camera. Manuel
Codes
Iran Charges Russia With Selling Out its Air Defense Secrets to Israel
Popular Mechanics - Kyle Mizokami
The Islamic Republic says Russia sold codes to Israel that neutralize its air defenses. An Iranian government official claimed earlier this week that its Russian-made air defenses were compromised by leaving
A Russian Former MP And Putin Critic Was Just Shot And Killed In Ukraine
BuzzFeed
A former Russian MP who fled to Ukraine last year and was known to be a critic of President Vladimir Putin was shot and killed outside an upscale hotel in Kiev on Thursday, the Associated Press reported.
Big Sur is once again coping with natural disaster and looming economic catastrophe
Los Angeles Times - By Robin Abcarian
I want to tell you about how awful things have been for hundreds of people in Big Sur, trapped now for more than a month by a broken bridge to the north and various mud and rock slides to the south. The
Amazing images of San Francisco before it was a city
Business Insider - Leanna Garfield
Golden Gate Park, the 1,000-acre green space south of the famous bridge, is located on what was once the largest sand dune ecosystem in the western hemisphere. These dunes spanned seven miles, essentially
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4 Crazy Predictions About the Future of Art
Inc Magazine - Kevin J. Ryan
Futurist (and current director of engineering at Google) Ray Kurzweil has made a lot of predictions about the future--and many of them have come true. In his 1990 book The Age of Intelligent Machines,
Scientists discovered crystals that defy physics, and we don't know what to believe anymore
Hello Giggles - Johnni Macke
Today in your daily dose of science, scientists discovered crystals that defy physics. Prepare to have your mind blown, because we have no idea what …