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Donald Trump is really quite good at one special skill: Branding. He has slapped his name on a ridiculous range of consumer merch – from teddy bears to a urine test. His policies and behavior, however, have turned the brand…

ift.tt/2UBqQAc NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer) has found water on the asteroid Bennu. Bennu is OSIRIS-REx’s only target, and though the spacecraft arrived at the asteroid on December 3rd, some of its instruments have been trained…

ift.tt/2Pw5y2S Monday morning, the New York Times published a horrifying investigation in which the publication bought an huge, “anonymized” dataset of smartphone location data from a third-party vendor, de-anonymized it, and tracked ordinary people through their day-to-day lives—including sensitive stops…

ift.tt/2QHyolJ GEORGE BARAHONA THE PRESS DEMOCRAT | December 7, 2018, 3:43PM | Updated 32 minutes ago.…

ift.tt/2BVrFMH Niche Site Project 4 continues to roll on!  Over the past few months, I’ve been working diligently on my site and today I’ll be sharing the results for the previous month (November). In some regards, I was able to…

ift.tt/2QAvSh3 The question Mark Zuckerberg has been asked ad nauseum—after each and every new scandal that has affected Facebook—is “why should users trust Facebook with their data?” It’s been asked by members of Congress, rhetorically by journalists in dozens of…

ift.tt/2zL2g78 According to Greenpeace East Asia, more than 17 million pieces of waste plastic are flushed into the sea via Hong Kong’s Shing Mun River every year. Mandy Barker, Hong Kong Soup:1826. Transform. Recovered Transformers action figures reflect the inadequate…

ift.tt/2Rwyc5S HiPOD (4 December 2018): Chocolate Sundae, Anyone?    – These lovely dunes and their tantalizing frost are inside the massive Proctor Crater. (Alt: 252 km. Black and white is less than 5 km across;…

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ift.tt/2Qy50hv Rebecca Schuman | Longreads | December 2018 | 11 minutes (2,795 words) The ’90s Are Old is a Longreads series by Rebecca Schuman, wherein she unpacks the cultural legacy of a decade that refuses to age gracefully. * *…

ift.tt/2PiEjZC Hugo, the oldest man in the town of Las Cascadas, spends time sitting in his couch watching how the wind moves the trees on his farm on a cold winter day on July 25th, 2016. From his farm in…

ift.tt/2RvYw04 The Hallmark channel’s viewing statistics indicate that you are one of our most treasured movie customers this time of year. We really appreciate your business! However, due to some unfortunate incidents, our legal team would like you to agree…

ift.tt/2DXadsI The 45th President and His Administration Investigating Trump’s Promises to America’s Veterans Newly released emails about the three Trump associates who secretly steered the Department of Veterans Affairs show how deeply the trio was involved in some of the…

ift.tt/2U3qCBo Science entertainer Neil deGrasse Tyson on Saturday posted a lengthy statement on Facebook denying a trio of sexual misconduct allegations leveled against him. He decried presumption of guilt in #MeToo accusations, pledged to cooperate with an impartial investigation, and…

ift.tt/2Q4nNlf Simply Recipes 2018 Meal Plan: December Week 1 Welcome to December! Here’s what we’ve got cooking for this week’s meal plan: braised lamb shanks, roasted broccoli salad, chicken and dumplings, and more. Happy cooking! This month, we welcome back Marta…

ift.tt/2SmqgEj We got our first dusting of snow this past weekend as we pulled out holiday lights and hunted for a Christmas tree, and a week of hearty soups sounds like the most soul-filling meal plan imaginable. I’m also taking…

ift.tt/2Rs1jHC These beautiful polychrome woodblock prints are Meiji era copies (ca. 1900) of original designs (ca. 1771) by Itō Jakuchū (1716–1800), a Japanese painter of the mid-Edo period notable for his striking modern aesthetic. Born in Kyoto, Jakuchū was strongly…

ift.tt/2QaXkCR Among followers of “urban sketching”, there is an often associated practice known as “journaling”, or the keeping of a visual diary of one’s travels, day to day activities or random thoughts and ideas. The idea of visual journals or…