Trump Administration What experts and White House officials will be searching for when the Mueller report dropsAxios - Mike Allen Bob Bauer, NYU law professor and former Obama White House counsel, told me this is the No. 1 thing he'll look for in the Mueller report: His focus: …
Concrete Researchers Made 25-Ton Boulders They Can Move by Hand, Giving More Insights Into Ancient EngineeringGizmodo - Andrew Liszewski How were giant ancient structures like Stonehenge, or the towering Moai heads on Easter Island, assembled at a time when cranes and trucks were still …
Recipes Thin Spaghetti with Garlic, Red Pepper and Olive Oil Recipeallrecipes.com Thin Spaghetti with Garlic, Red Pepper and Olive Oil Recipe by: Barilla "Thin spaghetti tossed with garlic, olive oil, red pepper flakes and grated …
Travel 20 of the most beautiful villages in FranceThe Guardian1. Locronan, Brittany A historic hemp-weaving village, Locronan is named after Saint Ronan, the Irish hermit who founded it in the middle ages. In the 15th century, the dukes of Brittany poured money building
Computer Science Mathematicians Discover the Perfect Way to MultiplyQuanta Magazine - Kevin Hartnett By chopping up large numbers into smaller ones, researchers have rewritten a fundamental mathematical speed limit. Four thousand years ago, the …
Play button You Only Need to Make 1 Small Change to Learn Any New Skill Twice As Fast, Johns Hopkins Research ProvesInc Magazine - By Jeff HadenWhere success is concerned, knowledge is important. Experience is important. But so is skill. No matter what your profession, some degree of physical skill is also required. So when you're trying to learn
Environment Norway refuses to drill for billions of barrels of oil in Arctic, leaving ‘whole industry surprised and disappointed’independent.co.uk - Harry Cockburn The largest party in Norway’s parliament has delivered a significant blow to the country’s huge oil industry after withdrawing support for …
Play buttonMathematics Mathematicians Just Discovered an 'Astonishing' New Way to Multiply Large NumbersScienceAlert - PETER DOCKRILL A pair of mathematicians from Australia and France have devised a new way to multiply numbers together, while solving an algorithmic puzzle that has …
Happiness 76 legit ways to make money on the side this yearLadders - Melissa Blevins Whatever your reasons are for wanting to make money on the side this year, they’re all legit. Here are 76 ways you can do it. Let’s face it. You’re …
Recipes Chimichurri (Argentinean Garlic Sauce)finecooking.com - By Steven Raichlen In Argentina, chimichurri is served with parrillada — a mixed grill of steak, chops, and sausages. Follow the Argentines’ lead and serve this herb …
Personal Finance Got an Idea for a T-Shirt? Here’s How to Earn Money From It on the Sidethepennyhoarder.com - Matt Reinstetle Josh Waldron is usually skeptical when he hears stories about people making colossal amounts of money working side hustles.While killing time at an …
Long-form Journalism They Had It ComingThe Atlantic - Caitlin FlanaganThe parents indicted in the college-admissions scandal were responding to a changing America, with rage at being robbed of what they believed was rightfully theirs. Updated at 5:23 p.m. ET on April 9,
Australian Universities Maths whiz solves 48-year-old multiplication problemunsw.edu.au A UNSW Sydney mathematician has helped solve a decades-old maths riddle that allows multiplication of huge numbers in a much faster time. Associate …
Science Why Isn't 1 a Prime Number?scientificamerican.com - Evelyn Lamb An engineer friend of mine recently surprised me by saying he wasn’t sure whether the number 1 was prime or not. I was surprised because among …
World News A group of teens taught a 5-year-old boy with autism how to ride a skateboard on his birthdayCNN - By Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN(CNN) — For Carter, a 5-year-old with high functioning autism and ADHD, it might have been the perfect birthday. The boy's mother, Kristen Braconi, took him to a skate park in South Brunswick, New Jersey,
We Are All Scutoids: A Brand-New Shape, ExplainedThe New Yorker - Alan BurdickUntil last week, the world of science was unaware of the scutoid. The scutoid is a basic three-dimensional shape, like a cube or a sphere but not like either of those things. It’s more like a column with
Science I'm taking Yale's class on happiness — and halfway through, these 4 tricks are already workingBusiness Insider - Justin Maiman, ContributorHappiness can be learned. That's the central idea behind Yale's most popular class ever. Professor Laurie Santos has collected all the psychological science out there and come up with a step-by-step process
Steven Pinker Here are cognitive scientist Steven Pinker's 13 tips for better writingboingboing.net - Mark Frauenfelder In January on Twitter, cognitive scientist Steven Pinker, author of Enlightenment Now, shared 13 tips for writing: Reverse-engineer what you read. If …
Christchurch Women All Over New Zealand Wore Headscarves in Solidarity With the Christchurch VictimsTIME - Madeline RoacheWomen across New Zealand are wearing headscarves in a show of support for the Muslim community, one week after 50 people were shot dead in two mosques in the city of Christchurch. Women and children have
Innovation The 7 Best CBD Products for SleepInverse - By Amber Roshay Good night, nurse! Filed Under Inverse Loot & Sleep Getting a good night’s sleep is the goal for most people, but for some of us, zzz’s are elusive. …
Social Work They Bribed College Coaches. I Collected Cans for Cash.The Atlantic - Bobbi DempseyFor parents without great wealth, the higher-education system looks much different. When my husband and I sent our first son to college a decade ago, we collected aluminum cans to help pay for his textbooks.
Jokes 75 Corny Jokes To Tell To Kids You Love (And Adults You Hate)Fatherly - Alicia Kort Remember: Dad jokes are funny as you long as you think they are. Kids love to laugh. And you love to make them laugh. Here are 75 jokes that are nearly …
Social Work How Inuit Parents Teach Kids To Control Their AngerNPR - Michaeleen Doucleff , Jane GreenhalghBack in the 1960s, a Harvard graduate student made a landmark discovery about the nature of human anger. At age 34, Jean Briggs traveled above the Arctic Circle and lived out on the tundra for 17 months.
Do study habits of people who consistently get A’s differ from those who consistently get C’s?Ladders - Michal Stawicki If you do your homework regularly, it’s so much easier to get better grades than those who neglect this chore. My IQ is well above average and I learn …
News California school district faces 'crisis' as students 'rage' without disciplineUSA TODAY - Calley CederlofVISALIA, Calif. – Valley Oak Middle School teachers were asked to answer two questions about the school's climate and culture. Overwhelmingly, the teachers said the school's discipline model is broken.
One Sheridan school increased teacher retention and decreased students “falling through the cracks” by adding mental healthchalkbeat.org - By Yesenia Robles At one school in the tiny district of Sheridan south of Denver, two social workers roam the hallways with handheld radios, responding to crisis after …
Play button Growing a year's worth of produce on 1000 sq. ft. in 4 hours a weektreehugger.com - Sami Grover The Plummery is an experiment. The results of that experiment look good. From a 23 year old forest garden to a 1 acre permaculture farm, Happen Films …
Play button Meet The Nonprofit Disrupting The Multibillion-A-Year Teacher Professional Development IndustryForbes - The 74When he started his job as an administrator in Tulsa Public Schools more than two years ago, Devin Fletcher experienced a disconnect. A great deal of attention was being paid to how well educators taught
Income and student test scores are bound togetherajc.com - Ty Tagami They couldn’t agree whether the 2017 scores on the biennial National Assessment of Educational Progress were bad or good — they were “flat” and …
Self-Care Seven ways to help someone through a panic attackThe Guardian - Amy SedghiEducate yourself According to the Mental Health Foundation (MHF), 13.2% of people have experienced a panic attack. If you know someone who suffers from them frequently, it can be helpful to better understand
