I attended preschool nearly 30 years ago, but three things about the experience stick out in my mind: (1) Monkey bars are magical and should be commandeered the entirety of recess. (2) Cottage cheese is the exact inverse of monkey bars. (3) You will never be able to capture the lightning in a bottle that is an afternoon …
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Now that the Republican health care bill has managed to pass through the House, it heads to the Senate, where it’s expected to face stiff resistance from a unified Democratic caucus and a number of Republicans who have expressed doubts about the attempt to kill some of Obamacare’s most popular and essential provisions. Leading that …
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THE GOOD NEWS: Jimmy Kimmel reminded Trump that he’s paying attention to the wrong ratings. Conservative media seemed to be overjoyed this week when it was reported that the 90th Academy Awards, on March 4, were the lowest rated since Nielsen started measuring them in 1974. The show’s host, Jimmy Kimmel, has been a vocal …
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Remember Obama? Seems like a thousand years ago when he was president, when basic politics and essential freedoms—including that of the press and transgender populations—were generally respected? Those sepia-toned memories came rushing back on Friday afternoon in New York City, when President Barack Obama made a brief appearance on Fifth Avenue while exiting an unknown office building. The …
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Some of the best inventions the world has ever known exist by chance alone. The mighty Post-It Note only exists because a lab engineer at 3M failed to make a strong adhesive. The childhood wonder that is the Slinky was born after a naval engineer dropped a tension spring and watched it snake down the …
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There’s some good news and some bad news. When it comes to your diet, you’ve likely been doing everything wrong. On the bright side, you’ll never have to endure another pitiful juice cleanse again. A guide recently published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology aims to dispel some of the myths and …
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There is perhaps no community that deserves more credit for “making America great” than our scientists, whose innovations have contributed trillions of dollars to the U.S. economy, launched the world’s most advanced military force, and saved millions of lives. In case you need it, here’s a refresher on the greatest hits: Benjamin Franklin deepened our understanding of electricity; Thomas …
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The #DeleteUber hashtag has been on repeat since January. First it was the taxi strike at John F. Kennedy International Airport. Then an engineer went public about sexual harassment and gender discrimination. Next, CEO Travis Kalanick’s hostile exchange with an Uber driver went viral and its seriously shady business practices were exposed. Every time Uber …
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An expansive aerial survey of the Australian coastline has just revealed that 93 percent of the Great Barrier Reef is suffering from bleaching—a severe environmental catastrophe tantamount to mass coral death—and the scientists who worked on the research are not hiding their dismay. The survey was conducted by the ARC Center of Excellence for Coral …
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Cloudflare, a behemoth web service that describes itself as an entity that “speeds up and protects millions of websites” found itself in an ironic place in February when it failed all protections and accidentally leaked sensitive personal information of millions of unsuspecting internet users. The Cloudflare system was inadvertently placing data from sites like OkCupid into …
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