NFL community mourns passing of Mitchell Henry after he dies of leukemia at age 24

He played for Ravens, Packers, and Broncos in his brief career as an NFL tight end.
Read more: http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-community-mourns-passing-of-mitchell-henry-after-he-dies-of-leukemia-at-age-24/?source=Snapzu

The USPS is an extremely dangerous place to work

The U.S. Postal Service reports more severe injuries than any other employer, according to OSHA.
Read more: https://theoutline.com/post/1836/the-usps-is-an-extremely-dangerous-place-to-work?source=Snapzu

Since no one is really working on Friday afternoons, some employers just say go home

Some workplaces have not only embraced the summer doldrums, they've turned those agonizingly slow Friday afternoons into a cheap perk dubbed the "summer Friday." A number of employers, acutely aware of the fact that workers are daydreaming of being anywhere but at the office, let them take the day off or leave early on Friday afternoons in an effort to boost morale and productivity.
Read more: http://www.kgw.com/news/nation-world/since-no-one-is-really-working-on-friday-afternoons-some-employers-just-say-go-home/453294449?source=Snapzu

The Early 1900s Movement to Build Schools Without Walls

Take that, tuberculosis!
Read more: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/open-air-schools-tuberculosis-movement-1900s?source=Snapzu

1 in 5 L.A. community college students is homeless, survey finds

One in every 5 of the Los Angeles Community College District’s 230,000 students is homeless, and nearly two-thirds can’t afford to eat properly, according to a new survey commissioned by the system’s board of trustees. The study looked at students with unstable housing and ”food insecurity,” which is defined by the U.S. Department of Agriculture as lacking enough to eat to sustain an active, healthy life.
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-homeless-community-college-20170628-story.html?source=Snapzu

'I Want The Pages To Turn': Librarian Nancy Pearl's Summer Reading List

Ahead of the July 4th weekend, the Seattle-based librarian shares a stack of eight recent favorites. She includes thrillers, mysteries, family sagas and an homage to the game rock, paper, scissors.
Read more: http://www.npr.org/2017/06/29/534709986/i-want-the-pages-to-turn-librarian-nancy-pearls-summer-reading-list?source=Snapzu

Low-income workers who live in RVs are being 'chased out' of Silicon Valley streets

In the ‘highest income region of the universe’, people trying to make ends meet face a ban on vehicles from parking in the same spot for longer than 72 hours. In a Silicon Valley town where the median home value is $2.5m, next to a university with a $22.5bn endowment, not far from a shopping mall with Burberry and Cartier outlets, they present an eye-popping sight: dozens of run-down RVs and trailers parked in a line along a main road.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/29/low-income-workers-rvs-palo-alto-california-homeless?source=Snapzu

Paris’ Dusty Diary : A Peek Inside the City's Most Secret Library

Guarded by a fortress of medieval walls cut from thick ominous sandstone, Les Archives Nationales means business. The former humble abode to a member of the French aristocracy, today this decadent sprawling chateau houses France’s most precious documents, each securely locked behind layers of mahogany-framed, etched-glass bookshelves.
Read more: http://www.messynessychic.com/2017/06/23/paris-dusty-diary-a-peek-inside-the-citys-most-secret-library/?source=Snapzu

Sydney Opera House sails to light up every sunset with Indigenous art

The late Aboriginal artist Lin Onus hoped his art would create “some sort of bridge” between Indigenous and European cultures, yet it is unlikely he would have imagined his work flying across the sails of the Sydney Opera House every sunset. By Julie Power.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/sydney-opera-house-sails-to-light-up-every-sunset-with-indigenous-art-20170627-gwze06.html?source=Snapzu

In Detroit, Artists Explore the Riches of the 99-Cent Store

For a summer exhibition titled “99 Cents or Less,” the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit has begun to resemble a dollar shop. By Chris Hampton.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/28/arts/design/museum-of-contemporary-art-detroit-99-cents-or-less.html?rref=collection/sectioncollection/arts?source=Snapzu

Five Eyes Unlimited

What A Global Anti-Encryption Regime Could Look Like. By Danny O’Brien, EFF.
Read more: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/06/five-eyes-unlimited?source=Snapzu

The Highest Form of Disagreement

The best way to argue is to take on your opponents’ strongest arguments, not their weakest ones. By Conor Friedersdorf.
Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/the-highest-form-of-disagreement/531597/?source=Snapzu

One’s Self-Washed Drawers: Ida John

Bohemia was never a safe country for women. If they didn’t all die of consumption in a garret, many of them might as well have done. In the 1890s, when the ‘new woman’ sprang, as Max Beerbohm put it, ‘fully armed from Ibsen’s brain’, their cases tended to follow a pattern. Attracted by the idea of freedom from social and sexual convention and the chance to live among artists, even to be artists, they found themselves not in a new world but in a mirror image of the old, with as many constraints and fewer comforts.
Read more: https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n13/rosemary-hill/ones-self-washed-drawers?source=Snapzu

Trump’s crackdown on immigration is terrible news for anyone who eats food

And it’s particularly bad news for farmers. By Tom Philpott.
Read more: http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/06/immigration-farm-workers-employment-trump/?source=Snapzu

Boy, 5, saves brother from choking (video)

Oliver Bevans, who lives near Cheadle, Staffordshire, used first aid training taught at school to hit three-year-old brother Stanley on the back three times to dislodge a meatball that was choking him. The boys had been at their gran’s, who had left the room briefly when the incident unfolded.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/video_and_audio/must_see/40430970/boy-5-saves-brother-from-choking-on-meatball?source=Snapzu

Type 1 Diabetes Finally Explained

Let me say this with no exaggeration. My whole life, all day, all night, every day and each night is about keeping my blood sugar between the red and yel...
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/riva-greenberg/type-1-diabetes_b_4869238.html?source=Snapzu

Pesticides damage survival of bee colonies, landmark study shows

The world’s largest ever field trial demonstrates widely used insecticides harm both honeybees and wild bees, increasing calls for a ban. By Damian Carrington.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/29/pesticides-damage-survival-of-bee-colonies-landmark-study-shows?source=Snapzu

Inside the Museum of Failure

NBC Left Field
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ABC, meat producer settle in $1.9B 'pink slime' libel suit

ABC and a South Dakota meat producer announced a settlement Wednesday in a $1.9 billion lawsuit against the American network over its reports on a lean, finely textured beef product that critics dubbed "pink slime." The terms of the settlement are confidential. Dakota Dunes-based Beef...
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/abc-settlement-reached-pink-slime-defamation-lawsuit-48325389?source=Snapzu

Kid calls 911 for help with math.

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Billionaire Warren Buffett says 'the real problem' with the US economy is people like him

Warren Buffett says people like him are the problem with the U.S. economy. With a net worth of more than $75 billion, Buffett is currently the second richest man alive, according to Forbes. As the CEO of investing house Berkshire Hathaway, he is hallowed as the Oracle of Omaha. But for all his personal success, Buffett says the issue really is the 1 percent.
Read more: http://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/27/warren-buffett-says-the-problem-with-the-economy-is-people-like-him.html?source=Snapzu

Smartphones Are a Scam (Yes, All of Them)

Expensive smartphones have become a new normal. So why do we keep buying them?
Read more: http://www.mensjournal.com/gear/articles/smartphones-are-a-scam-yes-all-of-them-w436159?source=Snapzu

The Gross Reason Why Flight Attendants Never Drink Hot Drinks During Flights

Just when you thought flying couldn't get any worse. Have you ever noticed that flight attendants never drink hot water during the flight?
Read more: http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/the-gross-reason-why-flight-attendants-never-drink-hot-drinks-during-flights/?source=Snapzu

More than 30 nuclear experts inhale uranium after radiation alarms at a weapons site are switched off

Most were not told about it until months later, and other mishaps at the Nevada nuclear test site followed. By Patrick Malone, Peter Cary, R. Jeffrey Smith. Part Four of a series.
Read more: https://apps.publicintegrity.org/nuclear-negligence/inhaled-uranium/?source=Snapzu

The EPA Quietly Approved Monsanto’s New Genetic-Engineering Technology

It’s the first time RNA interference will be used to kill insect pests. By Sarah Zhang.
Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/06/monsanto-rna-interference/531288/?source=Snapzu

Veganism has grown 500% since 2014 in the US

Veganism is growing rapidly around and the world, and now we know that six percent of Americans identify as vegan - up from only one percent in 2014 according to a highly regarded industry report released this month. The report, titled Top Trends in Prepared Foods in 2017 was prepared by research company GlobalData and shows the explosion in veganism over the last 3 years.
Read more: https://www.riseofthevegan.com/blog/veganism-has-increased-500-since-2014-in-the-us?source=Snapzu

Half of Americans are spending their entire paycheck (or more)

Nearly half of Americans say their expenses are equal to or greater than their income, according to a new study from the Center for Financial Services Innovation. And for those 18 to 25 the percentage is over half, up to 54%.
Read more: http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/27/pf/expenses/index.html?source=Snapzu

Millennials are the most likely generation of Americans to use public libraries

About half of U.S. Millennials have visited a public library or bookmobile in the past year.
Read more: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/06/21/millennials-are-the-most-likely-generation-of-americans-to-use-public-libraries/?source=Snapzu

Paddington Bear author Michael Bond dies aged 91

Michael Bond, the creator of the beloved children’s character Paddington Bear, has died aged 91. Bond, who published his first book, A Bear Called Paddington, about the marmalade-loving bear from deepest, darkest Peru, in 1958, died at home after a short illness.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jun/28/paddington-bear-author-michael-bond-dies-aged-91?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other?source=Snapzu

Why are 13 men in charge of healthcare for all American women?

A decade or two ago, the notion that 13 men would be plotting the fate of American women’s healthcare behind closed doors, that they would delight in defunding the women’s health organization Planned Parenthood and impeding healthcare access for millions of American women, would have felt like the politics of a bygone era.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/28/womens-healthcare-republican-senate-bill?source=Snapzu

Michael Nyqvist, 'Dragon Tattoo' Star, Dies at 56

The Swedish actor also starred in 'John Wick' and 'Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol.' Michael Nyqvist, who starred as Mikael Blomkvist in the original Swedish The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo movie thrillers with Noomi Rapace, died Tuesday after battling lung cancer, his family said. He was 56.
Read more: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/michael-nyqvist-dead-girl-dragon-tattoo-actor-was-56-1017014?source=Snapzu

Italy bails out two banks for 5.2bn euros

Italy's government is bailing out two banks in the Venice region at a cost of 5.2bn euros (£4.6bn; $5.8bn). The move comes two days after the European Central Bank warned that Banca Popolare di Vicenza and Veneto Banca were failing or likely to fail. The banks' "good" assets will be taken on by Intesa Sanpaolo banking group.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-40400210?ocid=socialflow_twitter?source=Snapzu

Groundbreaking discovery confirms existence of orbiting supermassive black holes

For the first time ever, astronomers at The University of New Mexico say they’ve been able to observe and measure the orbital motion between two supermassive black holes hundreds of millions of light years from Earth – a discovery more than a decade in the making.
Read more: http://news.unm.edu/news/groundbreaking-discovery-confirms-existence-of-orbiting-supermassive-black-holes#.WVLIDMt_c0U.reddit?source=Snapzu

The Truth About “Lactose Intolerance”

I’ve wanted to address this one for a while. I consider lactose intolerance to be one of the most universally mischaracterized and misunderstood concepts in all of nutrition and health.
Read more: https://mrheisenbug.wordpress.com/2014/08/24/the-truth-about-lactose-intolerance/?source=Snapzu

Boyz II Men - End Of The Road

(C) 1993 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
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The Magus of Paris

Joséphin Péladan’s mystical art exhibitions, in Paris, set the stage for everything from Kandinsky’s abstractions to Eliot’s “The Waste Land.” By Alex Ross.
Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/06/26/the-occult-roots-of-modernism?source=Snapzu

Science: regular consumption of marijuana keeps you thin, fit, and active

An apple a day keeps the doctor away. Here’s a new health-related adage to consider: Regular consumption of marijuana keeps you thin and active. According to researchers at Oregon Health and Science University, people who use marijuana more than five times per month have a lower body mass index (BMI) than people who do not use marijuana.
Read more: http://www.salon.com/2017/06/26/science-regular-consumption-of-marijuana-keeps-you-thin-fit-and-active_partner/?source=Snapzu

Did Civil War Soldiers Have PTSD?

One hundred and fifty years later, historians are discovering some of the earliest known cases of post-traumatic stress disorder
Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ptsd-civil-wars-hidden-legacy-180953652/?source=Snapzu

Seattle's $15 minimum wage may be hurting workers, report finds

As companies look for ways to cut costs, Seattle's $15 minimum wage law may be hurting hourly workers instead of helping them, according to a new report.
Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/nation-now/2017/06/27/report-finds-seattles-15-minimum-wage-may-hurting-workers/431424001/?source=Snapzu

Ringless voicemail spam won’t be exempt from anti-robocall rules

After heavy opposition, robocall company gives up attempt to avoid FCC rules.
Read more: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/ringless-voicemail-spam-wont-be-exempt-from-anti-robocall-rules/?source=Snapzu

Franz Kafka Agonized, Too, Over Writer’s Block

Poor Kafka, born too early to blame his writer’s block on 21st-century digital excuses: social media addiction, cell phone addiction, streaming video… Would The Metamorphosis have turned out differently had its author had access to a machine that would have allowed him to self-publish, communicate facelessly, and dispense entirely with typists, pens and paper?
Read more: http://www.openculture.com/2017/06/franz-kafka-agonized-too-over-writers-block.html?source=Snapzu

9 Ways to Get Better at Writing

Writing well is hard. Very hard. There are no short-cuts or “hacks.” The only way to improve is practice.
Read more: https://medium.com/personal-growth/9-ways-to-get-better-at-writing-ff6525cd163a?source=Snapzu

Chicago LGBT march bans Jewish pride flags: 'They made people feel unsafe'

Three people carrying Jewish Pride flags were asked to leave the annual Chicago Dyke March on Saturday. The Chicago-based LGBTQ newspaper Windy City Times quoted a Dyke March collective member as saying the rainbow flag with the Star of David in the middle "made people feel unsafe," and that the march was "pro-Palestinian" and "anti-Zionist."
Read more: http://www.haaretz.com/us-news/1.797650?source=Snapzu

The origin of the ’80s aesthetic

The design phenomenon that defined the decade.
Read more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCI8lPvr6SM?source=Snapzu

Infarm wants to put a farm in every grocery store

To paraphrase science fiction writer William Gibson, the farm of the future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.
Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/26/infarm/?source=Snapzu

Where is the Outrage? Inside the Battle for Freedom From Religion

Organized religion in this country does a lot of good, but it can also cause much pain and suffering. I realized just how much when I discovered everything the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, with help from the Catholic Church, had done in 2008 to take away civil rights from LGBT people in California. That’s when these two religions successfully led the effort to qualify and pass Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage in California.
Read more: http://www.playboy.com/articles/pride-essay-fred-karger?source=Snapzu

Publishers rejected me, but I went on to earn six-figures selling 1,000 books a day

Millions dream of quitting the grind and replacing their income through a rewarding, creative endeavour.
Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer-affairs/publishers-rejected-went-earn-six-figures-selling-1000-books/?source=Snapzu

Sausage roll row: US 'invents' new summer snack -

An American supermarket has created a "new" summer snack that look very familiar to Britons.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40392410?source=Snapzu

‘It came up from behind them and attacked’: Biologists ‘courageous’ in battle against bear

Erin Johnson, 27, of Anchorage, was killed Monday by a black bear while she was doing contract work for Pogo Mine in Interior Alaska.This was the second fatal bear attack in a two day span.
Read more: https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2017/06/22/anchorage-woman-27-idd-as-victim-of-fatal-interior-black-bear-mauling/?source=Snapzu

This Machine Prints Free Short Stories for You to Read While You Wait

This cool little machine was recently spotted at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, France
Read more: http://twistedsifter.com/2017/06/machine-prints-free-short-stories-for-you-to-read/?source=Snapzu