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19 Super Easy At-Home Life Hacks That Are Guaranteed To Make Your Life Better
BuzzFeed - Kevin Smith
These simple things will make life easier.
Circuit Board
Save 85% On The Complete Arduino Starter Kit & Course Bundle
geeky-gadgets.com - Roland Hutchinson
We have an awesome deal for our readers in the Geeky Gadgets Deals store today, you can save 85% off the Complete Arduino Starter Kit & Course Bundle. …
The Workplace
Here’s how to make DAILY progress toward your goals
Ladders - Kyle Young
When you’re chasing a big goal, the kind that takes months or years to accomplish, your biggest enemy will be complacency — letting days or weeks go …
Military History
Innovation, war, and glory: the soldier-scientist who unlocked the secrets of the Sahara
Popular Science - By Vince Beiser
Typography by Eric Heintz The amazing tale of Ralph Bagnold, a soldier, scientist, and scourge of the Axis Powers. The afternoon of January 11, 1941, was sleepy and quiet at the fort deep in the Sahara
Self-improvement
5 choices you’ll regret forever
Ladders - Travis Bradberry
Our days are filled with a constant stream of decisions. Most are mundane, but some are so important that they can haunt you for the rest of your …
Banksy
A Banksy Painting 'Self-Destructed' After Being Auctioned for $1.1 Million
VICE - Nicole Clark
“We’ve just been Banksy’ed,” a Sotheby's director said. In a trademark on-the-nose bit of anti-capitalist pranking, the street artist Banksy apparently destroyed one of his own iconic Girl with Balloon
Neutrons
Earth's First Nuclear Reactor Is 1.7 Billion Years Old And Was Made Naturally
Forbes - Ethan Siegel
If you were hunting for alien intelligence, looking for a surefire signature from across the Universe of their activity, you’d have a few options. You could look for an intelligent radio broadcast, like
Pulp Fiction
Someone mashed up Kavanaugh's testimony with 'Pulp Fiction' and it works disturbingly well
Mashable - Chloe Bryan
Are you a big Pulp Fiction fan? Let us ruin that for you. The production company Elara Pictures posted a disturbing video mashup to Instagram Friday: …
Long-form Journalism
‘This guy doesn’t know anything’: the inside story of Trump’s shambolic transition team
The Guardian - Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis, author of Moneyball and The Big Short, reveals how Trump’s bungled presidential transition set the template for his time in the White House Chris Christie noticed a piece in the New York
Board Games
Arkham Nights 2018 Coming Next Month
tabletopgamingnews.com - by Polar_Bear
Finally... Finally, the temperature is starting to go down. Monday is supposed to be 10 degrees cooler than today. And by then, we'll have more night …
Marvel Comics
17 Big Things Coming From Marvel and DC in December
IGN - Jesse Schedeen
2018 is closing out with a bang. December is shaping up to be another big month for the comic book industry. DC will be debuting major new creative …
Geek
TALES FROM THE LOOP’s Sequel Takes The Loop Into A Darker Decade (The 90s)
Geek & Sundry - Rob Wieland
Over the past two years, Tales From the Loop has become a genuine tabletop phenomenon. Simon Stålenhag’s first art book became a gorgeous RPG that …
3D
This Street Artist Paints Graffiti That's So Realistic It's Scary
BuzzFeed - Javier Moreno
Whoa!
Webcomics
Scientists Gave MDMA to Octopuses—and What Happened Was Profound
Gizmodo - Ryan F. Mandelbaum
When humans take the drug MDMA, versions of which are known as molly or ecstasy, they commonly feel very happy, extraverted, and particularly …
Pears
Scientists thought they had created the perfect tree. But it became a nightmare.
The Washington Post Magazine
Carole Bergmann pulls her small parks department SUV into an aging 1980s subdivision in Germantown, Md., and takes me to the edge of an expansive meadow. A dense screen of charcoal-gray trees stands between
Greek Philosophy
Carl Sagan's Problems With Plato
realclearscience.com - Ross Pomeroy
Aristotle, Plato, and Pythagoras are hailed as intellectual giants and great founders of scientific thought, and it would be difficult to deny them …
Lake Superior
Michigan Man Discovers Strange Glowing Rocks In The Upper Peninsula
Forbes - Trevor Nace
A Michigan man made the discovery of a lifetime when he stumbled on glowing rocks on the beaches of Lake Superior. The rocks, which he named “Yooperlites” emit an eerie glow, appearing to be partially
iOS
iOS 12 Is Out, Here Are The Coolest New Features
IGN - IGN Entertainment
Better performance, and new features. Be sure to visit IGN Tech for all the latest comprehensive hands-on reviews and best-of roundups. iOS 12 is now …
Public Speaking
7 Critical Public Speaking Tips (Source: The 'World Champion of Public Speaking,' Who Beat 30,000 People for the Title)
Inc Magazine - By Bill Murphy Jr.
There's a teacher in Houston who started going to Toastmasters events a few years ago. Her name is Ramona J. Smith, and it turns out she has a knack for public speaking. So much so that she beat out 30,000
Trump’s ties to the Russian mafia go back 3 decades
Vox - Sean Illing
Journalist Craig Unger talks Russia, Trump, and “one of the greatest intelligence operations in history.” On November 9, 2016, just a few minutes after Donald Trump was elected president of the United
Bill Gates
Bill Gates Loves These 4 Learning Hacks
Forbes - Zack Friedman
Bill Gates knows a thing or two about hacking. When it comes to learning hacks, in particular, here are a few of his favorites. Learning Hacks: An Overview Put simply, learning hacks are a quick way to
Rebuild The World On An Epic Scale With LEGACY: LIFE AMONG THE RUINS
Geek & Sundry - Rob Wieland
The end of the worlds is often depicted as a barren wasteland but it has proven to be fertile ground for storytelling. Films like Mad Max, video games …
The to-do list method for people with crazy lives and short attention spans
Quartz - Lila MacLellan
Productivity science is generally unkind to standard to-do lists. We’re told that they feed the impulses of our faulty brains in all the wrong ways. They call our attention to tasks that are easy to quantify
Libraries
11 places for thrifty bookworms to download free e-books
Mashable - Kyli Singh
Looking for the next great book to sink your teeth into? Look no further. As the year rolls on, you may find yourself wanting to set aside time to …
Try This Military Meditation Routine to Fall Asleep Fast
Lifehacker - Beth Skwarecki
Need to fall asleep fast? One mid-century relaxation technique, developed in the U.S. Navy Pre-Flight School, supposedly works within minutes. It may …
Physicists Say They've Come Up With a Mathematical Model For a Viable Time Machine
Science Alert - BEC CREW
"Mathematically, it is possible." Physicists have come up with what they claim is a mathematical model of a theoretical "time machine" - a box that …
Opinion (UK)
Skim reading is the new normal. The effect on society is profound
The Guardian - Maryanne Wolf
The negative effects of screen reading can appear as early as fourth and fifth grade We need to cultivate a new kind of brain Look around on your next plane trip. The iPad is the new pacifier for babies
Workouts
Think Abs Are Impossible After 40? All You Need Are These 5 Moves.
Esquire - By Sean Hyson, C.S.C.S.
Carve out a harder core—without doing situps—using a routine that spares your lower back. For decades, ab training meant situps, curling your upper body all the way up off the floor, rounding your lower
Self-improvement
A psychotherapist explains the 5 stages of changing your behavior
Ladders - Katherine Schafler
Wait, just thinking about changing is a stage of change? That’s how you start to change — by thinking about it without doing anything? YES. The idea …
Combat the pain of sitting at a desk all. day. long. with simple hip-opening stretches
Well+Good - by Mercey Livingston
How many of you have been here before? You manage to squeeze in that 6 a.m. pre-work fitness class (major props BTW) and you’re feeling great and …