Social Work Johns Hopkins professor issues dire warning against allowing children to change genders: 'Comparable to doing frontal lobotomies'TheBlaze - Sarah TaylorPaul McHugh, professor and psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins University, has condemned the act of allowing children to transition from one gender to another. McHugh told the College Fix that there will likely
Chewbacca Dog that sounds like Chewbacca doesn't get his way and throws a tantrumMashable - Andy MoserTo have a Chewbacca-sounding dog has to be a Star Wars fan's dream. A video uploaded to YouTube channel Juicy Trey has given us Ginsburg the Chewbacca dog, straight from the adoption center on Kashyyyk.
Long-form Journalism How Did Lauren Duca’s Revolution Backfire?buzzfeednews.com - Scaachi Koul The viral writer wants to galvanize young people with her new book, How to Start a Revolution. But past controversies — and a new complaint filed by …
Cholesterol The truth about eating eggsBBC Future - Jessica BrownAre eggs helpful to our health… or a cause of heart disease? BBC Future examines the evidence. If there was such a thing as a perfect food, eggs would be a contender. They’re readily available, easy to
Technology Google Warns LastPass Users Were Exposed To ‘Last Password’ Credential LeakForbes - Davey WinderGoogle Project Zero is a team of highly talented security analysts with a brief to uncover zero-day vulnerabilities. If a vulnerability is found, Project Zero reports to the vendor concerned and starts
Poetry When Milton met Shakespeare: poet's notes on Bard appear to have been foundThe Guardian - Alison FloodAlmost 400 years after the first folio of Shakespeare was published in 1623, scholars believe they have identified the early owner of one copy of the text, who made hundreds of insightful annotations John
Chun-Li Twitch Suspends Streamer After She Wears Chun-Li Cosplay [Updated]Kotaku - Cecilia D'Anastasio Last night, Twitch suspended art streamer Quqco after she livestreamed herself wearing cosplay of Chun-Li from Street Fighter, Dexerto first …
Science How to Jump from a Moving Train Using SciencePopular Mechanics - By Popular Mechanics EditorsDon’t ask why—you need to escape, stat. So how do you make a break without breaking every bone? We asked Rhett Allain, an associate professor of physics of Southeastern Louisiana University, to walk us
Military History A Dead Russian Submarine Armed with Nuclear Torpedoes was Never Recoverednationalinterest.org - Robert Farley A permanent watery grave.Key point: She rests at a depth of 15,000 feet—too deep to make recovery practical.The Bay of Biscay is one of the world’s …
Technology Artificial Intelligence Only Goes So Far In Today’s Economy, Says MIT StudyForbes - Joe McKendrickArtificial intelligence and machine learning may be ideal for picking up the day-to-day tasks of running enterprises, but still fall flat when it comes to innovation or reacting to unforeseen or one-off
Women's News A textbook case of sexism in medicine?The Guardian - Emine SanerIn case you are unaware of the potentially sexually charged atmosphere of an orthopaedic clinic, we point you in the direction of the erotic tome that is Advanced Examination Techniques in Orthopaedics.
Play buttonHumanity Staring Into Someone's Eyes For 10 Minutes Can Induce Altered State of ConsciousnessScienceAlert - Bec Crew In 2015, a psychologist in Italy figured out how to induce a drug-free altered state of consciousness by asking 20 volunteers to sit and stare into …
Jeffrey Epstein Director of MIT’s Media Lab steps down over Epstein tiesLos Angeles Times - Associated PressThe director of a prestigious research lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology resigned Saturday, and the school’s president ordered an independent investigation amid an uproar over the lab’s
History The finding of the oldest human skull changes evolution scienceQuartz - Hester HanegraefThe recent discovery of a 3.8m-year-old cranium (skull without the lower jaw) is the hottest topic of conversation among palaeoanthropologists right now. But fossils are found all the time, so why is cranium
Grieving This Grieving Dad Wrote a Letter About the True Meaning of Work-Life BalanceFatherly - Cameron LeBlanc His letter has struck a chord with many working parents. Work-life balance is often framed as the goal to balance personal enrichment and professional …
Instagram What Does It Mean to Be a ‘VSCO Girl’?thecut.com - Sarah Spellings Gun to my head, if I had to sum up what a “VSCO girl” is in one word, it would be “basic.” But gun to my head, I would probably use my last breath to …
Photos The Unbuilt Streets of California's Ghost MetropolisWIRED - Condé Nast In 1958, a Czech-born sociology professor named Nat Mendelsohn purchased 82,000 acres of land in the Mojave Desert, about 100 miles north of Los …
Psychedelia Holotropic breathwork is like tripping without the psychedelicsMic News - Tracey Anne Duncan A few months ago I was going through a terrible breakup. I was heartbroken, despondent, not sleeping, and plagued by intrusive thoughts — the usual. …
Language Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per secondsciencemag.org - Catherine Matacic Italians are some of the fastest speakers on the planet, chattering at up to nine syllables per second. Many Germans, on the other hand, are slow …
Jeremy Renner Two Parrots Have An Incredibly Detailed Discussion With One Another - DiggDigg - Via Rumble
Science Aleks Krotoski: The art of good storytellingsciencefocus.com - Aleks Krotoski With a potential audience of millions at our fingertips, it’s important not to be flippant with the facts. There’s a story I have been trying to write …
ISPs 13 ways to screw over your internet providerTechCrunch - Devin ColdeweyInternet providers are real bastards: they have captive audiences whom they squeeze for every last penny while they fight against regulation like net neutrality and donate immense amounts of money to on
Opinion God save us from the smug fortysomethingsThe Guardian - Will SelfIf Johnson appears decadent, it’s because he is channelling his own inner 45-year-old It’s a truth pretty universally unacknowledged – but for all that, blindingly obvious once you’ve been told by One
Horses Meet the oldest winner of the world's longest horse raceCNN - By Ben Church, CNN(CNN) — Standing at the finish line, 70-year-old Bob Long took a moment to reflect on what he'd just achieved. Behind him lay more than 600 miles of Mongolian steppe, a vast expanse of wild grassland stretches
Great White Shark South Africa’s cowardly great white sharks flee in terror following spate of attacks by killer whales rippingthesun.co.uk - Jon Lockett SOUTH Africa’s great white sharks have gone into hiding after a spate of horror attacks by killer whales tearing out their livers. The normally …
trump news update Trump signals his desire to illegally stay in office as he rages against James Comey over ‘stolen time’rawstory.com - Common Dreams Not the first time he has done this, President Donald Trump on Friday morning insinuated he would like to extend his term beyond the four years …
Offbeat News The Longest Walkable Distance on Earthlaughingsquid.com - Lori Dorn Joseph Pisenti of RealLifeLore (previously) offers a “brief overview” of the longest pedestrian distance between two points on the Earth’s surface. …
Gaming How I Gamed My Youth AwayVICE - Marvin Xin KuI ran towards the defence towers and thrust my sword into my opponent, killing him. The clock was ticking; the dreaded moment when my enemy would be resurrected drew closer. There was no time to lose,
Play buttonFyre Festival From Fyre festival to Hustlers: why are we so obsessed with scammers?The Guardian - Adrian Horton2019 is shaping up to be the year of the scam. This is not a new idea; scams have been on the mind since at least January, when the mother of all Schadenfreude cannons, Fyre festival, was memorialized
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