The Polish Halloween: All You Need to Know about Dziady

Dziady, Halloween’s Polish counterpart, has a rich tradition dating back to old Slavic times. Rather than Jack-O’-Lanterns, it’s linked to Karaboshka masks, the great literature of the Romantic era and, by some, to the Greek god Dionysus. Read on to find out what this grave custom is about and what place it holds in the universe of Poles.
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There Is No Perfect

How to Accept and Appreciate Our Imperfect Art
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Ocean Shock: Fish Flee the Carolinas as Waters Warm. People lose out.

‘There ain’t no flounder around here no more – they all up there in Rhode Island.’: As warming oceans make summer flounder scarce, a town loses its livelihood.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ocean-shock-flounder/?source=Snapzu

When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Improves

When researchers convinced a group of young people to stop smoking pot, their cognition quickly improved. This adds to research warning against teen pot use, despite marijuana's growing acceptance.
Read more: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/10/30/662127406/when-adolescents-give-up-pot-their-cognition-quickly-improves?source=Snapzu

A timehackers' guide to starting a journal - everything you need to know

An indepth, hardhitting guide to improving your productivity with the help of a journal. Learn how to start a journal, what journal you should be using & more.
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For Halloween, Google scares up its first multiplayer Doodle game

Invite seven friends or family members to play Great Ghoul Duel or join random strangers from around the world.
Read more: https://www.cnet.com/news/for-halloween-google-doodle-scares-up-first-multiplayer-game-ghoul-duel/?source=Snapzu

Cephalopods could become an important food source in the global community

With a growing world population and climate challenges that are causing agricultural areas to shrink, many are wondering where sustainable food will come from in the future. A professor of gastrophysics from the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen and a chef offer a suggestion in a new research article: The cephalopod population (including squid, octopus and cuttlefish) in the oceans is growing and growing – let’s get better at cooking them so that many more people will want to eat them!
Read more: https://food.ku.dk/english/news/2018/cephalopods-could-become-an-important-food-source-in-the-global-community/?source=Snapzu

Common chemical linked to language delay in children

Children may suffer delayed language skills if their mothers come in contact with common chemicals called phthalates in early pregnancy, new research suggests.
Read more: https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2018/10/29/Common-chemical-linked-to-language-delay-in-children/4861540870761/?source=Snapzu

Skull-shaped asteroid will fly past earth after Halloween

'Halloween Asteroid' shaped like a skull is late for the party this year, flying past Earth on 11 November.
Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/45787257?source=Snapzu

Moss-like plant may help with pain more than medical marijuana

A moss-like plant grown only in a few countries may offer better pain relief than medical marijuana, animal research suggests.
Read more: https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2018/10/26/Moss-like-plant-may-help-with-pain-more-than-medical-marijuana/7921540580182/?sl=5?source=Snapzu

Rooms

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Disgusting Food Museum - 80 of the world’s most disgusting foods. Opening October 31 in Malmö.

Disgusting Food Museum invites visitors to explore the world of food and challenge their notions of what is and what isn’t edible. Could changing our ideas of disgust help us embrace the environmentally sustainable foods of the future? The exhibit has 80 of the world’s most disgusting foods. Adventurous visitors will appreciate the opportunity to smell and taste some of these notorious foods. Do you dare smell the world’s stinkiest cheese? Or taste sweets made with metal cleansing chemicals?
Read more: https://disgustingfoodmuseum.com/?source=Snapzu

World's top fishing nations to be given millions to protect oceans

Bloomberg Philanthropies to launch major grant for coastal communities to improve the health of oceans
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/29/worlds-top-fishing-nations-to-be-given-millions-to-protect-oceans?source=Snapzu

The Haunting Mystery of ‘Edwin Drood’ That Charles Dickens Left Behind

When Charles Dickens died, he left behind an unfinished book containing unresolved mysteries. In ‘The Mystery of Edwin Drood,’ who killed Drood—and is Drood really dead?
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-haunting-mystery-of-edwin-drood-that-charles-dickens-left-behind?source=Snapzu

The Library of Congress Lets You Stream Hundreds of Free Films

Viewers worldwide can now download or stream free movies from the library’s National Screening Room website.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/23/movies/library-of-congress-national-screening-room.html?source=Snapzu

As Bill Freehan lies in hospice care, his wife reveals their love story

Detroit Tigers great Bill Freehan taught us how to live. Now, at the end stages, his wife is teaching us something even more important.
Read more: https://www.freep.com/story/sports/columnists/jeff-seidel/2018/10/28/bill-freehan-dementia-wife-detroit-tigers/1739616002/?source=Snapzu

Why Are We Still Teaching Reading the Wrong Way?

Teacher preparation programs continue to ignore the sound science behind how people become readers.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/opinion/sunday/phonics-teaching-reading-wrong-way.html?source=Snapzu

Sweet discovery: New UBC study pushes back the origins of chocolate

As Halloween revelers prepare to feast on chocolate, a new study from an international team of researchers, including the University of British Columbia, is pushing back the origins of the delicious sweet treat. The study, published online today in Nature Ecology & Evolution, suggests that cacao—the plant from which chocolate is made—was domesticated, or grown by people for food, around 1,500 years earlier than previously thought. In addition, the researchers found cacao was originally domesticated in South America, rather than in Central America.
Read more: https://news.ubc.ca/2018/10/29/sweet-discovery-new-ubc-study-pushes-back-the-origins-of-chocolate/?source=Snapzu

Steve Mnuchin stole Cesar Sayoc's house

Before Steve Mnuchin was in charge of the nation's economy, he was a foreclosure kingpin who left Goldman Sachs to found OneWest Bank (with money from George Soros!) in 2008; after the crisis, OneWest Bank acquired busted mortgage lender IndyMac, and became a notorious foreclosure mill, using robo-signed, back-dated, fraudulent documents to steal peoples' houses.
Read more: https://boingboing.net/2018/10/26/roosting-chicken-bomber.html?source=Snapzu

Study: Psychopaths are attracted to other psychopaths

New psychology research suggests that most people do not view psychopathic personality traits as particularly desirable in a romantic partner. But the ...
Read more: https://www.psypost.org/2018/10/study-psychopaths-are-attracted-to-other-psychopaths-52414?source=Snapzu

Just a few drinks can change how memories are formed

Researchers at Brown found that alcohol hijacks a conserved memory pathway in the brain and changes which versions of genes are made, forming the cravings that fuel addiction.
Read more: https://news.brown.edu/articles/2018/10/alcohol?source=Snapzu

The art museum entirely dedicated to cats

Fluffy felines may have ruled the internet for years, but they have influenced the art world for centuries. Amsterdam’s KattenKabinet exclusively showcases the art inspired by cats.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p06kws0b/the-art-museum-entirely-dedicated-to-cats-?source=Snapzu

Your Kid’s Apps Are Crammed With Ads

In a new study of the most downloaded apps for children ages 5 and younger, researchers found advertising in almost all of them.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/30/style/kids-study-apps-advertising.html?source=Snapzu

The year's best astronomy photos

Some of the winning images from the Royal Observatory Greenwich's annual competition.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-45978380?source=Snapzu

The meat industry is hiding a dark secret, as workers at 'America's worst job' wade through seas of blood, guts, and grease

A recent report from Bloomberg highlights the awful working conditions that sanitation workers experience in the meat industry.
Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/meat-industry-sanitation-workers-2018-1?source=Snapzu

The Surprising Power of The Long Game

In everything we do, we play the long or the short game. The short game is easy, pleasurable, and offers visible and immediate benefits. But it almost never leads to success. Here's how to play the long game.
Read more: https://fs.blog/2018/10/long-game/?source=Snapzu

My Father Says He’s a ‘Targeted Individual.’ Maybe We All Are

I was 11 when my father destroyed the condominium where he was living. Searching for hidden transistors or other devices that might be beaming voices into his skull, he took a hammer to the walls, shoved his fists into the holes, and pulled off chunks of plaster. He shut off the power generator and cut the electrical wires in the walls. He put his ear to the floor. He ripped up the carpet. He called 9-1-1.
Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/my-father-says-hes-a-targeted-individual-maybe-we-all-are?source=Snapzu

Louisiana teacher donates kidney to student she never met

A Louisiana science teacher is set to donate a kidney to a student who previously attended the school she teaches in, but never had her for class. Heather Mallet, who teaches at F.K. White Middle School, said it doesn’t matter that Hayden Diaz never sat in her classroom, she just knew she had to help him.
Read more: https://www.okaynews.info/2018/10/louisiana-teacher-donates-kidney-to.html?source=Snapzu

Is it OK to be average?

Why does nobody want to be normal? It turns out sometimes it’s good to be ordinary.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1XDvM0PtCW8kMw8FhHtmYYY/is-it-ok-to-be-average?source=Snapzu

Sting - Fields Of Gold (HD) Ten Summoner's Tales

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Your DNA Is Out There. Do You Want Law Enforcement Using It?

On the afternoon of Nov. 18, 1987, Jay Cook and Tanya Van Cuylenborg left Saanich, B.C., their hometown, to pick up some furnace equipment in Seattle for Cook’s father. Saanich and Seattle are a little more than 100 miles apart, but the trip takes almost five hours: a ferry into the U.S. across the Strait of Juan de Fuca, another across Puget Sound, and between them a winding coastal drive through evergreen forests and fishing towns. The young couple planned to make an overnight jaunt of it.
Read more: https://www.bloombergquint.com/businessweek/your-dna-is-out-there-do-you-want-law-enforcement-using-it?source=Snapzu

‘Would robot sex count as infidelity? Technically no…’

Kate Devlin, computer scientist and sex-tech expert, talks about teledildonics, the possible futures of human relationships and the intersection of AI and sex. Dr Kate Devlin is a computer scientist at Kings College London whose work includes delving into the overlap between sex, intimacy and technology as well as human-computer and human-robot interactions. She has organised two sex-tech hackathons, and has recently written a book about sex robots called Turned On.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/oct/27/kate-devlin-robot-sex-infidelity-teledildonics-relationships?source=Snapzu

Every story in the world has one of these six basic plots

Researchers analysed over 1700 novels to reveal six story types – but can they be applied to our most-loved tales? Miriam Quick takes a look.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180525-every-story-in-the-world-has-one-of-these-six-basic-plots?source=Snapzu

Why peanut reactions have become 'almost epidemic' — and what to do about food allergies

Allergies to peanuts and other types of food continues to climb, but experts say there is some progress in controlling or preventing life-threatening reactions.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/26/why-peanut-food-allergies-have-become-almost-epidemic.html?source=Snapzu

PINK FLOYD - Is there anybody out there?

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The 21 Best 404 Error Pages Ever

See the 21 best 404 Not Found error pages ever created. From funny jokes, to frozen monkeys, to holes in the internet itself — they're all here!
Read more: https://www.lifewire.com/best-404-error-pages-2625172?source=Snapzu

The bookshops of Scotland

Photographer Celeste Noche's pictures of bookshops and libraries in Scotland.
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We Need to Completely Change Agriculture to Adapt to Climate Change

We’re not managing our crops to support global nutritional needs: In fact, we use a disproportionate amount of land used to grow grains, fats, oils, and sugar, and not enough land to grow the fruits and vegetables that we need to survive, a new research paper asserts.
Read more: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/598x83/we-need-completely-change-agriculture-adapt-climate-change-food-global-warming?source=Snapzu

Google’s smart city dream is turning into a privacy nightmare

Sidewalk Labs promised 'privacy by design' in Quayside. Will it actually happen?
Read more: https://www.engadget.com/2018/10/26/sidewalk-labs-ann-cavoukian-smart-city/?source=Snapzu

Robert Downey Jr. Celebrates Halloween With Iron Man And Spider-Man Pumpkins

Avengers love Halloween too, and the hero that kicked off the Marvel Cinematic Universe is celebrating with some superhero pumpkins. The movie world has changed considerably since Robert Downey Jr's turn as Tony Stark in the original Iron Man, and all these years later it is still going strong. His Marvel alter ego has also managed to work its way into his decorations for Halloween this year, though as he revealed in a new photo he also had some help from his pal Spider-Man.
Read more: https://comicbook.com/marvel/2018/10/27/robert-downey-jr-halloween-iron-man-spider-man-pumpkins/?source=Snapzu

Demi Lovato Is 90 Days Sober, Her Mother Says

Demi Lovato has reached 90 days of sobriety, according her mother, Dianna De La Garza. "She has 90 days," she confirmed in an interview on Maria Menounos‘ Sirius XM show Friday. "I couldn't be more thankful or more proud of her because addiction being a disease, it's work. It's very hard. It's not easy, and there are no shortcuts."
Read more: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/demi-lovato-is-90-days-sober-her-mother-says-1155728?source=Snapzu

The secret to being more likeable on first dates and job interviews revealed

People who need to make a good impression on dates or in job interviews should concentrate on communicating the hard work and effort behind their success, rather than just emphasising their talent, new research from Cass Business School has found. In Impression (Mis) Management When Communicating Success, published in Basic and Applied Social Psychology, Dr Janina Steinmetz investigated how people attribute their success on dates and job...
Read more: https://www.city.ac.uk/news/2018/october/the-secret-to-being-more-likeable-on-first-dates-and-job-interviews-revealed?source=Snapzu

Scientists Processed 109 Hours of Oral Sex to Develop an AI that Sucks Dick

Anonymous machine learning engineers wrote 'The Blowjob Paper' to try to make this bj machine more lifelike.
Read more: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pa9nvv/the-blowjob-paper-scientists-processed-109-hours-of-oral-sex-to-develop-an-ai-that-sucks-dick-autoblow?source=Snapzu

'No pencils, no lunch': why teachers dip into their own pockets

Mandy Wells teaches refugee children whose parents can't afford to buy pencils, stationery or school bags. They certainly don't have felt pens, pencil sharpeners or erasers. So, to ensure they don't miss out, she dips into her own pocket. "Every term I will stock up on the things that their parents can't buy for them," she says. "I can spend anywhere from $900 to $1800, $2000 a year – depending on the needs of the class. I work with colleagues who spend more.
Read more: https://www.smh.com.au/education/no-pencils-no-lunch-why-teachers-dip-into-their-own-pockets-20181025-p50bs5.html?source=Snapzu

Overlooked No More: Yamei Kin, the Chinese Doctor Who Introduced Tofu to the West

Long before veggie burgers and soy lattes were fashionable, Kin was sent on a mission by the United States government to uncover the benefits of the soybean for Americans. In 1917 Yamei Kin, a Chinese-born doctor then living in New York, visited her homeland to study a crop that was virtually unknown to Americans: the soybean.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/obituaries/yamei-kin-overlooked.html?fbclid=IwAR01nOrI4oCPBbdaPj9WSJWbw4DwtJAVMpYb7a_M6ohPeOUbZw3KLdgDudQ?source=Snapzu

Use these adventure skills to survive the zombie apocalypse

Hone these talents and you just might live. By Lindsay N. Smith.
Read more: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/features/skills-survive-zombie-apocalypse-adventure-sports/?source=Snapzu

An anonymous 4chan post could help solve a 25-year-old math mystery

A 4chan poster may have solved part of a very tricky math problem that mathematicians have been working on for at least 25 years. The user was just trying to figure out the most efficient way to watch episodes of a nonlinear anime series, but the result has generated considerable interest from mathematicians around the world who have no way to identify the anonymous user.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/24/18019464/4chan-anon-anime-haruhi-math-mystery?source=Snapzu

Hong Kong Street Food. Chopping Piglets, Ducks, Pigeons, Chickens in Sham Shui Po

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Shredding the Girl and Balloon - The Director’s half cut

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Can Eating Organic Food Lower Your Cancer Risk?

In a study, those who ate more organic produce, dairy, meat and other products had 25 percent fewer cancer diagnoses over all, especially lymphoma and breast cancer.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/23/well/eat/can-eating-organic-food-lower-your-cancer-risk.html?source=Snapzu