Now There's a Water Gun That Shoots Liquid Bullets and Refills Itself

Until the Super Soaker came along in 1990, water guns hadn’t changed much in over a century. But the Super Soaker was 28 years ago, and a group of German engineers and designers think it’s finally time for water guns to evolve again. They’ve created the self-filling Spyra One that fires quick bursts of water instead of a steady stream, which promises to improve accuracy and distance.
Read more: https://gizmodo.com/now-theres-a-water-gun-that-shoots-liquid-bullets-and-r-1827691645?source=Snapzu

How to Stay Broken Up

The following are tried-and-tested rules for surviving the end of a romantic relationship, whether it be an intense-but-brief fling or a fifteen-year marriage.
Read more: https://www.theodysseyonline.com/how-to-stay-broken-up?source=Snapzu

Home Depot workers build lemonade stand for boy with cancer

An 8-year-old Florida boy wanted to raise money for a family friend who is battling an aggressive form of childhood cancer. So he and his mother went to a Home Depot for supplies to build a lemonade stand, except they received a lot more than that. Dawn Redmon and her son, Christian, called the Home Depot store in Apopka with the hope that they'd considering making some sort of donation or giving a discount on the items to build the lemonade stand.
Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/good-news/home-depot-workers-build-lemonade-stand-for-boy-with-cancer/ar-BBMDoZu?OCID=ansmsnnews11?source=Snapzu

The Future of Pointless Work

Some years ago, I had a colleague who would frequently complain that he didn’t have enough to do. He’d mention how much free time he had to our team, ask for more tasks from our boss, and bring it up at after-work drinks. He was right, of course, about the situation: Although we were hardly idle, even the most productive among us couldn’t claim to be toiling for eight (or even five, sometimes three) full hours a day.
Read more: https://newrepublic.com/article/150506/universal-basic-income-future-of-pointless-work?source=Snapzu

Inside The Trump Administration’s Secret War On Weed

The Marijuana Policy Coordination Committee wants to counteract positive marijuana messages and identify problems with state legalization initiatives, according to documents obtained by BuzzFeed News.
Read more: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/dominicholden/trump-secret-committee-anti-marijuana?source=Snapzu

ER actress who criticized George Clooney shot dead after pulling BB gun on cops

Vanessa Marquez was shot dead after pointing a BB gun that looked like a semiautomatic on police at her home in Pasadena Thursday. She accused former co-star George Clooney of blacklisting her from working last year, but he has denied doing so
Read more: https://metro.co.uk/2018/08/31/er-actress-who-criticized-george-clooney-shot-dead-after-pulling-bb-gun-on-cops-7901488/?source=Snapzu

CRISPR halts Duchenne muscular dystrophy progression in dogs

Scientists for the first time have used CRISPR gene editing to halt the progression of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) in a large mammal, according to a study by UT Southwestern that provides a strong indication that a lifesaving treatment may be in the pipeline. The research published in Science documents unprecedented improvement in the muscle fibers of dogs with DMD – the most common fatal genetic disease in children, caused by a mutation that inhibits the production of dystrophin, a protein critical for muscle function.
Read more: https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2018/dmd-dogs.html?source=Snapzu

Sex on the Brain: Frequent Sex Might Have Cognitive Benefits

Frequent sex might enhance our performance on certain cognitive tasks. A growing body of research on both humans and animals published in the last decade points to this conclusion, including a new study in the Archives of Sexual Behavior. Here's a look at the accumulated evidence and what it suggests about how sex might benefit the brain.
Read more: https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/the-myths-sex/201808/sex-the-brain-frequent-sex-might-have-cognitive-benefits?source=Snapzu

Homeless man files lawsuit against couple who helped raise $400k for him

Lawyers for a homeless man have taken legal action against a couple who raised more than $400,000 to help him get back on his feet. Johnny Bobbitt’s attorneys filed a lawsuit against Mark D’Amico and Kate McClure Tuesday, saying the couple used the "substantial portions of the money raised," through a GoFundMe campaign as their "personal piggy bank," instead of putting the money toward helping him, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Read more: http://www.ksla.com/2018/08/29/homeless-man-files-lawsuit-against-couple-who-helped-raise-k-him/?source=Snapzu

Sticking to the path

Sticking to the path. For those who might not be aware of this yet, let me enlighten you. To get good at anything, there’s a certain path one must stick to, in order to achieve success.
Read more: https://www.thriveglobal.com/stories/28941-sticking-to-the-path?source=Snapzu

Many young adults lack financial literacy, economic stability, study finds

Nearly a third of young adults in a recent study were found to be “financially precarious” because they had poor financial literacy and lacked money management skills and income stability. Only 22 percent of the 18- to 24-year-olds in the study sample were deemed to be financially stable, according to lead author Gaurav Sinha, a graduate student in social work at the University of Illinois.
Read more: https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/686400?source=Snapzu

More than half of Michigan students failed M-STEP literacy exam

The Michigan Department of Education on Wednesday released the results of the M-STEP and SAT exams.
Read more: https://www.freep.com/story/news/education/2018/08/29/mstep-literacy-test-michigan/1115750002/?source=Snapzu

Head of Human Rights Campaign Foundation resigns after using racial slur -

Mary Beth Maxwell used the slur while recounting upsetting instances where the word was used. Extremism.
Read more: https://www.metroweekly.com/2018/08/head-hrc-foundation-resigns-after-using-racial-slur/?source=Snapzu

Ellie Mannette dies at 91 - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

Pan pioneer Elliot “Ellie” Mannette, 91, passed away this morning at 10.50 am at a hospital in West Virginia, USA. He was surrounded by people who loved him up until the very end. His family thanked everyone for all their thoughts and prayers, stating that Mannette was truly touched to see how much he was loved around the world.
Read more: https://newsday.co.tt/2018/08/29/ellie-mannette-dies-at-91/?source=Snapzu

The 4 Pillars of Good Writing

Which hard skill do recent college grads lack the most? In 2016, PayScale asked employers this question. The top response was “writing proficiency.” Wow. Our education system teaches few practical skills, but it does emphasize writing. So what gives? Incompetent teachers? Unteachable students? Actually, the problem for many college graduates is having absorbed their academic training all too well. The challenge for them is to unlearn the bad writing habits picked up from 16-plus years of school.
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/the-4-pillars-of-good-writing/?source=Snapzu

Goats Like It When You Smile at Them, Extremely Heartwarming Study Says

Empirical observation told us years ago that goats were slowly becoming the new dog, and according to a new study, they are truly qualified to be man’s best friend. On Wednesday, the Royal Society released heartwarming research showing that just like humans, goats have no desire to interact with people who come off as angry or upset, and that they’re much more attracted to those with big smiles plastered across their faces.
Read more: https://www.thecut.com/2018/08/goats-like-it-when-you-smile-at-them-science-says.html?source=Snapzu

New U.S. Sexual Misconduct Rules Bolster Rights of Accused and Protect Colleges

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is preparing to propose new sexual misconduct rules that cement the rights of the accused and reduce liability for institutions.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/29/us/politics/devos-campus-sexual-assault.html?source=Snapzu

Recent Study Found Plant-Based Diet Decreases Environmental Impact By 42 to 84 Percent!

As the environmental, animal welfare, and human health concerns involved with eating meat, dairy, and eggs have come to light in recent years, many Americans have begun embracing a plant-based diet. However, some are still skeptical as to whether swapping out meat and dairy for plants actually does THAT much to help our Earth. They wonder, does following a plant-based diet significantly reduce environmental impact as compared to eating in the traditional, meat-centric American way?
Read more: http://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/recent-study-found-plant-based-diet-decreases-environmental-impact/?source=Snapzu

Should evil AI research be published? Five experts weigh in.

Should you sacrifice your livelihood to save the world? Or is there a responsible way to bring your work to life?
Read more: https://futurism.com/should-evil-ai-research-be-published-five-experts-weigh-in/?source=Snapzu

Logged off: meet the teens who refuse to use social media

Generation Z has grown up online – so why are a surprising number suddenly turning their backs on Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat?
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/aug/29/teens-desert-social-media?source=Snapzu

These Cultural Treasures Are Made of Plastic. Now They’re Falling Apart.

Museum conservators are racing to figure out how to preserve modern artworks and historical objects that are disintegrating.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/28/science/plastics-preservation-getty.html?source=Snapzu

Take My Drink… Please

The Carol Burnett Show
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Purpose

It takes a lot of variables to create the perfect environment for true purpose.
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The School Shootings That Weren't

How many times per year does a gun go off in an American school? We should know. But we don't. This spring the U.S. Education Department reported that in the 2015-2016 school year, "nearly 240 schools ... reported at least 1 incident involving a school-related shooting." The number is far higher than most other estimates.
Read more: https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/08/27/640323347/the-school-shootings-that-werent?source=Snapzu

Countering the Achievement Society

It has almost become a cliché to characterize the time in which we live as the Age of Burnout. An increasing number of books, articles, and opinion editorials are being written on the subject of “the epidemic of vital exhaustion” (see for example, The Guardian’s recent piece, “How Burnout Became a Sinister and Insidious Epidemic”). My own interest and research into fatigue stems in large part from my work and observations in a university setting, where a common complaint (or perhaps boast?) of faculty, staff, administrators, and students is how exhausted we are. But fatigue is often linked to a host of other problems...
Read more: https://iainews.iai.tv/articles/should-we-rediscover-education-as-leisure-auid-1109?access=ALL?source=Snapzu

The Student Debt Problem Is Worse Than We Imagined

New data reveals how colleges are benefiting from billions in financial aid while students are left with debt they cannot repay.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/25/opinion/sunday/student-debt-loan-default-college.html?source=Snapzu

Legal Weed Is a Reality in America, but Congress Refuses to Admit It

As New York moves toward legal recreational cannabis, the failure to enact nationwide reforms is becoming more glaring.
Read more: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/gy37x7/legal-weed-is-a-reality-in-america-but-congress-refuses-to-admit-it?source=Snapzu

Why It's OK For Vegans To Support The Impossible Burger

Yes, Impossible Foods tested heme, their new ingredient found in the Impossible Burger, on animals. This was done in order to receive their no questions letter from the FDA, which they recently received. Find out why it's OK for vegans to support Impossible Foods and the Impossible Burger.
Read more: https://veganvoyagers.com/2018/08/why-its-ok-for-vegans-to-support-the-impossible-burger/?source=Snapzu

Thieves replace rifles with toy replicas

Thieves in Paraguay have stolen 42 powerful rifles from the police armoury. During an inspection, officers found that the FN FAL battle rifles had been replaced with wooden and plastic replicas. The inspection had been ordered after the rifles started appearing a year ago on the black market, where they can fetch up to $10,000 (£7,785). The rifles had been put into storage but were still in working order.
Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-45320202?source=Snapzu

A Lost Childhood: To Auschwitz and Back

One morning in June, with the smell of an approaching thunderstorm in the air, an elderly man, his hair carefully parted to one side and wearing a freshly ironed, collared shirt, rings the doorbell of a farmhouse in the Bohemian Forest, a low mountain range in the Czech Republic. He has a long journey behind him, across two international borders and hundreds of kilometers, the last few hundred meters of which lead down an alley lined with pear trees.
Read more: http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/a-holocaust-survivor-tells-his-story-to-auschwitz-and-back-a-1224276.html?source=Snapzu

Olympia 6-year-old ends up in hospital after standing up to bullies

A 6-year-old boy in Olympia was assaulted after he says he stood up to a group of kids who were bullying his friend. Carter and his mother Dana English left Harborview Medical Center in Seattle on Friday afternoon after a morning surgery to repair a laceration in his eye. “It’s been hell,” Dana said. “I haven’t slept. I haven’t eaten. I can’t do anything. I can’t even leave his side.”
Read more: https://komonews.com/news/local/olympia-6-year-old-ends-up-in-hospital-after-standing-up-to-bullies?source=Snapzu

I know why rejection emails suck. I write them.

In this employee-friendly market, lots of things about the hiring process have changed to accommodate candidates. But companies don’t seem interested in the goodwill they could earn by giving honest, individual feedback. I work at Triplebyte, and over the last year I’ve written over 3,000 detailed, individual rejection emails. When I started, I wondered why no one else did this. Now, I think I know.
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Dunkin' is dropping the 'Donuts' from its name — and people are freaking out

Dunkin' Donuts began testing the name Dunkin' at a few Massachusetts locations in late 2017. I donut think this is a good idea.
Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/dunkin-donuts-name-changing-to-dunkin-2018-8?source=Snapzu

1 Change Could Make Your Writing More Readable. Unfortunately, People Will Tell You You're Wrong

New research casts doubt on what's become a standard practice.
Read more: https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/two-spaces-after-sentences-skidmore-rebecca-johnson-grammar-writing-style.html?source=Snapzu

Study finds parents tend to be more socially conservative and judgmental than non-parents

New research has found that parenthood is associated with harsher moral judgments and greater social conservatism. The study has been published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences. “Parenting is obviously very important to humans, and it makes sense from an evolutionary perspective that parenthood would influence your motivations and priorities. Yet there is relatively little research on the relationships between parenthood and social attitudes, and even less that examines parenting motivation as a psychological factor,” said study author Nicholas Kerry of Tulane University.
Read more: https://www.psypost.org/2018/08/study-finds-parents-tend-to-be-more-socially-conservative-and-judgmental-than-non-parents-52061?source=Snapzu

John McCain: “American Hero”

Journalists and politicians venerating John McCain’s civility and decency have a short memory. By Branko Marcetic.
Read more: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/07/john-mccain-donald-trump-obama-republican-party-presidential-campaign?source=Snapzu

Here comes Harmony: AI sex robots with new 'X-Mode' ship in September

Last year, CNET traveled to San Marcos, California, for an early, behind-the-scenes look at a new generation of artificially intelligent sex robots from Abyss Creations, maker of the popular "RealDolls" line of customizable sex dolls. Now, customers can expect to start receiving those same sexbots within the next month.
Read more: https://www.cnet.com/news/harmony-ai-sex-robots-with-x-mode-from-abyss-creations-ship-in-september/?source=Snapzu

The memoir by Steve Jobs' daughter makes clear he was a truly rotten person whose bad behavior was repeatedly enabled by those around him (AAPL)

It's no surprise that Steve Jobs was a jerk. There have been plenty of accounts over the years that have detailed his cruelty, rudeness, and miserliness to workers, business partners, and even family and friends. Still, the stories that have come out so far from "Small Fry," the new autobiography from his daughter Lisa Brennan-Jobs are shocking. Jobs comes across not just as someone who could be self-centered and mean, but someone who was a truly terrible human being.
Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/amphtml/finance/news/memoir-steve-jobs-apos-daughter-133000491.html?source=Snapzu

The Illegal Ramen Vendors of Postwar Tokyo

Black markets and American wheat imports popularized ramen.
Read more: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-did-ramen-become-popular?source=Snapzu

The Dangers of Ignoring Cognitive Inequality

On Sunday 28 April 1996, Martin Bryant was awoken by his alarm at 6am. He said goodbye to his girlfriend as she left the house, ate some breakfast, and set the burglar alarm before leaving his Hobart residence, as usual. He stopped briefly to purchase a coffee in the small town of Forcett, where he asked the cashier to “boil the kettle less time.” He then drove to the nearby town of Port Arthur, originally a colonial-era convict settlement populated only by a few hundred people.
Read more: https://quillette.com/2018/08/25/the-dangers-of-ignoring-cognitive-inequality/?source=Snapzu

He’s 101, Unless He’s Only 98. And He Just Wrote Another Novel.

A.E. Hotchner, who grew up to be pals with Ernest Hemingway and Paul Newman, just published a mystery about a boy, a long-ago summer and a jewelry heist.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/26/nyregion/hes-101-unless-hes-only-98-and-he-just-wrote-another-novel.html?source=Snapzu

The Powerful Practice of Writing by Hand

The author Laura van den Berg on what inspired her newest novel, "The Third Hotel," and how she accesses the part of the mind that fiction comes from.
Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/08/laura-van-den-berg-by-heart/567964/?source=Snapzu

'It's not right': Shoppers angry over Walmart charging more for plus-size clothing

Walmart Canada is facing criticism for charging more for plus-size clothing, a policy some shoppers consider an unjust "fat tax." "It's unacceptable," said Walmart shopper Shannon Mozak, of Edmonton, who sometimes buys plus sizes. "It's a form of shaming people." Walmart and some other retailers mark up their plus-size clothing with the justification that bigger sizes cost more to produce.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/walmart-plus-size-clothing-price-1.4796192?source=Snapzu

Neil Simon, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright and Screenwriter, Dies at 91

The playwright drew on his own experiences and astute observations to transform American comedy with work including The Odd Couple and Barefoot in the Park.
Read more: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/08/neil-simon-dead-91-obituary?source=Snapzu

What is this weird Twitter army of Amazon drones cheerfully defending warehouse work?

Here is a strange little online community to puzzle at. By Devin Coldewey.
Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/23/what-is-this-weird-twitter-army-of-amazon-drones-cheerfully-defending-warehouse-work/?source=Snapzu

I Worked With Richard Russell at Horizon Air, and I Understand Why He Did What He Did

I was surprised to wake up last Saturday morning to the headlines. Not completely shocked, but surprised nonetheless. By Todd Bunker.
Read more: https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/08/17/30824665/i-worked-with-richard-russell-at-horizon-air-and-i-understand-why-he-did-what-he-did?source=Snapzu

Phone Numbers Were Never Meant as ID. Now We’re All At Risk.

Services increasingly rely on your phone number to know who you are—and that's increasingly a problem.
Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/phone-numbers-indentification-authentication/?source=Snapzu

Plato’s Theory of Justice

Plato’stheory of justice quite different from and contrary to the justice as we understand it in constitutional-legal terms, can be precisely summed in following two quotes from the Republic: “Justice is having and doing what is one’s own”and “A just man is a man just in the right place doing his best and giving full equivalent of what he receives”.
Read more: https://countercurrents.org/2018/08/25/platos-theory-of-justice/?source=Snapzu

'They are taking out a generation of tuna': overfishing causes crisis in Philippines

Raul Gomez is an old man who fishes with five crew on a clipper in the seas known as the coral triangle, and he has spent two months now without taking enough to feed his family. Riding out storms and searing heat in western Pacific waters, the burly, sun-inked Filipino uses a pole and line to reel in yellowfin tuna the size of an adult human. This has been his trade for 40 years, but it is becoming tougher as fisheries in this region – one of the planet’s most important centres of tuna production – face the prospect of total collapse.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/23/they-are-taking-out-a-generation-of-tuna-overfishing-causes-crisis-in-philippines?source=Snapzu

John McCain, influential US senator and presidential candidate, dies aged 81

John McCain, prisoner of war, presidential candidate and one of the most influential American politicians of his generation, has died after suffering from brain cancer. The six-term senator from Arizona, who was 81, had been absent from Washington since last December but remained outspoken to the end, railing against Donald Trump and urging defence of of the post-war liberal democratic order.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/25/john-mccain-influential-us-senator-and-ex-presidential-candidate-dies-aged-81?source=Snapzu