Snapzu Life & Personal Interests: January 2018

Wednesday, 31 January 2018

13 Reasons You Are Failing At Life And Becoming A Bum

If your life is not where you expected it to be then there are plenty of reasons why. Today I’m going to explore a few of them with you so that you can get clear on what’s holding you back.
Read more: https://medium.com/personal-growth/13-reasons-you-are-failing-at-life-and-becoming-a-bum-785a6fcb20dc?source=Snapzu

Rare 'Super Blue Blood Moon' Eclipse | Pictures

A lunar eclipse over Oceanside, California.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/rare-super-blue-blood-moon-eclipse-idUSRTS1LX1W?source=Snapzu

When Teens Just… Snuck onto Antarctic Expeditions

The true story of one Antarctica-bound boat and several unexpected crew members. By Laurie Gwen Shapiro.
Read more: https://www.outsideonline.com/2275906/when-teens-just-snuck-arctic-expeditions?source=Snapzu

The Key to Robert E. Lee's Puzzling Death Might Be Hidden in a Photo of His Earlobe

The Confederate Army general's death stumped his doctors—but now we might have a clue about what happened.
Read more: http://mentalfloss.com/article/526291/key-robert-e-lees-puzzling-death-might-be-hidden-photo-his-earlobe?source=Snapzu

The Shallowness of Google Translate

The program uses state-of-the-art AI techniques, but simple tests show that it's a long way from real understanding.
Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/01/the-shallowness-of-google-translate/551570/?source=Snapzu

What happened next to create iconic image

Photojournalist Eddie Adams captured one of the most famous images of the Vietnam War - the very instant of an execution during the chaos of the Tet Offensive. It would bring him a lifetime of glory, but as James Jeffrey writes, also of sorrow.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42864421?source=Snapzu

2 Toronto police officers accused of stealing marijuana, getting stoned on the job

Two Toronto police officers have been suspended after allegedly consuming marijuana seized during a dispensary raid. A Toronto Police Services spokesperson confirmed that two officers from the midtown 13 Division are being investigated by the force’s professional standards unit, but wouldn’t reveal further details.
Read more: https://globalnews.ca/news/3993835/toronto-police-suspended-after-dispensary-raid/?source=Snapzu

Tuesday, 30 January 2018

Five Psychological Experiments That Prove Humanity is Doomed

A number of psychological experiments over the years have yielded terrifying conclusions about the subjects. By Alexandra Gedrose. (May 06, 2008)
Read more: http://www.cracked.com/article_16239_5-psychological-experiments-that-prove-humanity-doomed.html?source=Snapzu

Mark Salling, Actor Who Pleaded Guilty to Child Pornography, Dead at 35

Mark Salling, the 'Glee' actor who recently pleaded guilty to child pornography charges, has died at age 35.
Read more: https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/mark-salling-glee-actor-dead-at-35-w516136?source=Snapzu

This Fruit Tastes Like Custard

Fans of Central America's olosapo also compare it to butterscotch.
Read more: https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/olosapo-monkey-cap-fruit?source=Snapzu

Why backpacker parasite makes you so ill

Giardia parasites mimic human cells to help bacteria feed off nutrients in the gut, a study says.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-42830995?source=Snapzu

A man walked around Disney World with a T-Shirt that said 'In need of kidney' and it worked

The idea for the T-shirt was a Hail Mary, a play US man Rob Leibowitz made out of deep desperation. Leibowitz, 60, had been enduring dialysis for years while his kidneys failed. He was grateful the treatments were keeping him alive, but they were four hours long, three days a week, a challenging commitment for a single father of five working full time. He needed someone to give him a kidney.
Read more: https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/well-good/inspire-me/100999345/a-man-walked-around-disney-world-with-a-tshirt-that-said-in-need-of-kidney-and-it-worked?source=Snapzu

Algorithmic installation paints impressionist neighbourhood scenes with abstract brushstrokes.

‘It Was the First Time I Cried in the Operating Room’

When pediatric surgeon Allan Goldstein entered the operating room to separate conjoined twins, he did so with the knowledge that one would have to die in order to save the other. He recalls the enormous surgical and ethical challenges.
Read more: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/surgeon-on-separating-siamese-twins-the-first-time-i-cried-in-the-operating-room-a-1189755.html?source=Snapzu

How Goodyear Hid Evidence Of 'The Worst Tire Made In History' Linked To At Least 9 Deaths

In October 2003, Billy Wayne Woods and his family packed into a luxury $181,000 motorhome for a fun getaway to Florida. Call it a textbook American vacation: their destination was Disney World, and with his wife, Shirley, his son and daughter-in law and two grandchildren in tow, the trip would surely be one to remember. But on the return home for the Alabama family, the vacation took an abrupt turn for disaster.
Read more: https://jalopnik.com/how-goodyear-hid-evidence-of-the-worst-tire-made-in-his-1822200424?source=Snapzu

Monday, 29 January 2018

The World’s most Nutritious Foods

After analysing more than 1,000 raw foods, researchers ranked the ingredients that provide the best balance of your daily nutritional requirements – and they found a few surprises.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180126-the-100-most-nutritious-foods?source=Snapzu

What's behind rich people pretending to be self-made?

Americans reflexively link hard work with reward, but what happens as the two become ever more disconnected?
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/29/rich-people-wealth-america?source=Snapzu

The Top 10 Best Rockabilly Songs of All Time

When you think of rockabilly, who comes to mind? Elvis? Gene Vincent? Johnny Horton? Check out this list of the top 10 rockabilly songs and see if you're right!
Read more: https://pinupdresses.co.uk/blog/top-10-best-rockabilly-songs-time/?source=Snapzu

The Overlooked Danger of Delirium in Hospitals

The condition, once known as “ICU psychosis,” disproportionately affects seniors and those who have been heavily sedated—and the delusions can last long after they’re discharged.
Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/06/the-overlooked-danger-of-delirium-in-hospitals/394829/?source=Snapzu

What happened when a student sued over prayer

Kaylee Cole walks into school each morning and has breakfast with friends. Every day starts the same: Announcements, birthdays and school events are broadcast over the public address system. What comes next is what she dreads. "They say, 'Please stand for the Prayer and the Pledge.' And then we move right into it. And it's the Lord's Prayer," Cole says. Cole sits down. Raised as a Christian but now agnostic, she doesn't want to hear it.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/23/us/louisiana-school-prayer-lawsuit/index.html?source=Snapzu

Former employees say Lyft staffers spied on passengers

Similar to Uber's "God View" scandal, Lyft staffers have been abusing customer insight software to view the personal contact info and ride history of the..
Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/25/lyft-god-view/?source=Snapzu

What No One Tells You About Writing a Blog Post

Cut the preamble. The first couple sentences need to grab readers by the throat. No time to dilly-dally. Pull them in.
Read more: https://medium.com/@4MikeJohnston/what-no-one-tells-you-about-writing-a-blog-post-7cec2c95723b?source=Snapzu

AI fake porn could cast any of us

The faces of Daisy Ridley, Emma Watson, Gal Gadot and other celebrities have appeared near-seamlessly stitched onto porn videos using neural network tech.
Read more: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/01/26/ai-fake-porn-could-cast-any-of-us/?source=Snapzu

Reading Bad

Bruce Robbins reads Merve Emre’s “Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America.”
Read more: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/reading-bad/?source=Snapzu

You Can Now Download Thousands of Vintage Movie Posters in High Resolution

The University of Texas at Austin has a huge collection of film posters from the 20th century, and they’re being digitized.
Read more: http://mentalfloss.com/article/527165/you-can-now-download-thousands-vintage-movie-posters-high-resolution?source=Snapzu

Sunday, 28 January 2018

Droughts, storms and global demand tests America’s love affair with avocado

Raising production to meet demand will be tricky
Read more: https://www.economist.com/news/business/21735656-raising-production-meet-demand-will-be-tricky-droughts-storms-and-global-demand-tests?source=Snapzu

Hero neighbor pulls attacking pit bulls off 9-year-old boy

A woman is being credited with saving a boy’s life after three dogs attacked him in metro Atlanta. The boy was attacked Wednesday night in a Loganville neighborhood. Police said three pit bulls somehow got loose and first jumped on the 9-year-old boy. The neighbor saw what was going on, jumped in and was able get the pit bulls off of him.
Read more: http://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/hero-neighbor-pulls-attacking-pit-bulls-off-9-year-old-boy/689753982?source=Snapzu

Why is pop culture obsessed with battles between good and evil?

Pop culture today is obsessed with the battle between good and evil. Traditional folktales never were. What changed? By Catherine Nichols.
Read more: https://aeon.co/essays/why-is-pop-culture-obsessed-with-battles-between-good-and-evil?source=Snapzu

Fukushima heroes still fighting effects of radiation, stress and guilt

Following the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami of 2011, selfless Japanese workers battled nuclear-reactor meltdown, and thousands of US troops provided disaster relief. Today, many are counting the cost to their mental and physical health. By Rob Gilhooly.
Read more: http://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2130359/fukushima-heroes-both-sides-pacific-still?source=Snapzu

The death effect on artists prices actually occurs when they’re alive.

According to economists the death effect of artists prices is actually only observable for the five years before an artist dies. The theoretical underpinnings for their conjecture are simple, but sophisticated in their application. Prices are governed by the interaction between supply, the quantity and quality of a good or service, and the demand for it. In the art world, demand for an artist is influenced by many factors, such as critical reception, museum shows, and which collectors or institutions own works. But over the course of an artist’s lifetime, supply is governed chiefly by one factor: the artist who produces the work.
Read more: https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-death-effect-artists-prices-occurs-alive??source=Snapzu

Pin Up Style For the 21st Century - Pin Up Dresses

A travel through pin up style time as we explore how pin up dress sense has evolved over the years. Did the bicycle kick off the pin up trend?
Read more: https://pinupdresses.co.uk/blog/pin-up-style-for-the-21st-century/?source=Snapzu

Ikea founder Kamprad dies at 91

The billionaire Swede Ingvar Kamprad founded the pioneering furniture retailer at the age of 17.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42851668?source=Snapzu

The next camera revolution could let us see through walls and deep inside the brain

You might be really pleased with the camera technology in your latest smartphone, which can recognise your face and take slow-mo video in ultra-high definition. But these technological feats are just the start of a larger revolution that is underway.
Read more: https://thenextweb.com/syndication/2018/01/27/next-camera-revolution-let-us-see-walls-deep-inside-brain/?source=Snapzu

Tobacco, oil, and arms – where Imperial is investing its money

An analysis of Imperial College London’s endowment fund has revealed significant direct and indirect investments in the tobacco, fossil fuel, weapons, …
Read more: http://felixonline.co.uk/articles/2018-01-26-tobacco-oil-and-arms-where-imperial-is-investing-its-money/?source=Snapzu

Wanna Go to Mars? Get Ready for the Poop-and-Bacteria Diet

The process could be an efficient way to recycle waste during long space missions.
Read more: http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/green-tech/a15898239/researchers-want-to-make-astronaut-food-from-poop-and-bacteria/?source=Snapzu

The mystery of the rounder, sweeter chocolate bar.

People are known to associate sweetness with roundness and angularity with bitterness and, hence, making a traditionally rectangular food rounder may be expected to alter the perceived taste by priming notions of sweetness in the mind of the consumer. (2013)
Read more: https://flavourjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/2044-7248-2-28?source=Snapzu

Feds investigating select Ford Explorers after drivers complain of feeling sick

Dizziness, nausea, and vomiting are not things typically associated with a drive to the store. But after more than 1,300 complaints of similar symptoms reported, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ( NHTSA) says it is investigating Ford Explorer SUVs. They are looking at models from the years 2011-2017. Ford says they haven't found any problems that could explain why someone would develop those symptoms. The automobile manufacturer even says the SUVs are safe to use.
Read more: http://abcnews4.com/news/local/feds-investigating-select-ford-explorers-after-drivers-complain-of-feeling-sick?source=Snapzu

Saturday, 27 January 2018

Calls for "sharing bags" of sweets to be banned because people eat them all in one go

"Share bags" of sweets and chocolates should be banned because children simply eat them all in one go, campaigners have said. Action on Sugar has called for a total ban on price promotions on confectionery after it found retailers offering bumper "sharing packs" at better value than smaller "individual" sizes. More than one in five adults (22 per cent) eat the sharing bags alone, in one go, with the figure rising to 35 per cent among 16 to 24-year-olds, its survey found.
Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/26/calls-sharing-bags-sweets-banned-people-eat-one-go/?source=Snapzu

Sebastian Steudtner of Germany Drops in on a Large Wave

Big wave surfer Sebastian Steudtner of Germany drops in on a large wave at Praia do Norte in Nazare, Portugal.
Read more: https://snapzu.com/jcscher/sebastian-steudtner-of-germany-drops-in-on-a-large-wave?source=Snapzu

Week in pictures: 20 - 26 January 2018

A selection of the best news photographs from around the world, taken over the past week.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-42830985?source=Snapzu

Scotland to ban use of electric shock dog collars

The Scottish government has announced a ban on the use of electric shock collars on dogs. Environment secretary Roseanna Cunningham released a statement on Thursday 24 January confirming the decision. The move follows a campaign backed by Scottish Conservative MSP Maurice Golden and organisations including the Kennel Club, the Animal Behaviour and Training Council, and the Scottish SPCA.
Read more: https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/scotland-ban-use-electric-shock-dog-collars/?source=Snapzu

Alcoholics Who Use Cannabis Are Less Likely To Suffer Liver Disease

Medical cannabis patients have been reaping the healing benefits of pot for some time now, despite a lag or relative absence of high-quality research. A striking study released last week adds to the growing body of evidence supporting the medicinal benefits of marijuana, covering the potent anti-inflammatory benefits of cannabis use for patients suffering from alcohol-abuse related conditions.
Read more: https://botanika.life/alcoholics-use-cannabis-less-likely-suffer-liver-disease/?source=Snapzu

The next Kurdish war is on the horizon

Syria cannot countenance Kurdish presence on its territory and Turkey cannot tolerate a Kurdish enclave along its southern border, however secular, liberal and socialist it claims (not without reason) to be. By Robert Fisk. (Jan. 18, 2018)
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/syria-kurds-kurdish-turkey-border-security-force-war-on-the-horizon-a8165746.html?source=Snapzu

Husband with Alzheimer's forgot he was married to his wife of 38 years. He proposed, and they married again.

Michael Joyce's memory, and some of his speech have been snatched by Alzheimer's. The disease is so advanced that he forgot he was married to his wife of 38 years. But he is in love with her, and he is also an honorable man, so he proposed to her on a recent morning. She said yes. "You don't say, 'Oh, we're already married,' " Linda Joyce, 64, told the New Zealand news site Stuff. "So, I said, 'Of course I will,' thinking he might not remember."
Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/ct-husband-with-alzheimers-marriage-proposal-20180125-story.html?source=Snapzu

Test of ‘God Helmet’ at Music Fest Yields Strange Results

Attendees at a Dutch music festival volunteer to be tested while wearing something called a 'God helmet' and some of the results were surprising. By Paul Seaburn.
Read more: http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/01/test-of-god-helmet-at-music-fest-yields-strange-results/?source=Snapzu

Exclusive: ICE is about to start tracking license plates across the US

The system gives the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency access to billions of license plate records and new powers of real-time location tracking.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/26/16932350/ice-immigration-customs-license-plate-recognition-contract-vigilant-solutions?source=Snapzu

Friday, 26 January 2018

What gig workers can learn from romance writers

With the median income for romance authors tripling in the e-book era, other gig workers could stand to take a page from these novelists' books.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20180119-what-gig-workers-can-learn-from-romance-writers?source=Snapzu