Apple trolls CES with a giant dig at Android and Alexa privacy

There’s a giant ad on the side of a building in Las Vegas, making a wordplay on the classic “what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas” line. Nothing unusual about that, except it’s been set up by Apple just in time for the Consumer Electronics Show’s arrival in town, an event that the iPhone maker traditionally pretends isn’t even happening.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/5/18169781/apple-google-privacy-troll-billboard?source=Snapzu

The Norwegian art of the packed lunch

Could we all learn something from Norway's culture of ‘matpakke’?
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20190103-the-norwegian-art-of-the-packed-lunch?source=Snapzu

Facebook Knows How to Track You Using the Dust on Your Camera Lens

Facebook has long said that it doesn’t use location data to make friend suggestions, but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t thought about using it.
Read more: https://gizmodo.com/facebook-knows-how-to-track-you-using-the-dust-on-your-1821030620?source=Snapzu

Margit Korondi - 1952 Olympics Gymnastics - Beam

Hungarian Margit Korondi, bronze winner at the Helsinki 1952 Olympic Games.
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Honey Langtree, 60s Female Drummer for The Honeycombs dies aged 75

Anne ‘Honey’ Langtree was unique in music in the 60s. She was a drummer. Honey has died after a battle with breast cancer at the age of 75.
Read more: http://www.noise11.com/news/honey-langtree-60s-female-drummer-for-the-honeycombs-dies-aged-75-20190106?source=Snapzu

Artificial Soil Made from Lava Rock Allows Growing of Food in Space

Fresh greens in space? Recent research has looked into how plants respond to low levels of gravity and a particular hormone which can help plants grow in challenging space conditions. Now, new research has succeeded in growing plants in high-tech planters which use artificial soil made from lava rock.
Read more: https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/artifical-soil-planters-food-in-space/?source=Snapzu

In A Congress Full Of Firsts, Still No Open Atheists

The 116th Congress is the most diverse in history, with incoming members expanding political representation on a number of fronts. For the first time, Congress now includes Muslim women, Native American women, an openly bisexual senator and the youngest woman ever elected to serve in either chamber. Yet despite that progress, Congress is once again beginning a new session without a single member who openly identifies as atheist, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of the latest CQ Roll Call “Faith on the Hill” survey.
Read more: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/congress-atheists-representation_us_5c2f9b03e4b0bdd0de588425?source=Snapzu

Something You Should Hear and Think About

something you should hear No matter if youre a king or a street sweeper, we are all going to end up as dust. So with much love and respect, i challenge you to rethink your live, rethink how youre living, rethink your values, rethink your mountaintop. Most people's goals are to pay lousy bills, get by, survive, get
Read more: https://findinggod.site/something-you-should-hear-and-think-about/?source=Snapzu

R.I.P., Judith Rich Harris: The Woman Who Showed Us How Little Parents Matter

Judith Rich Harris once had a job writing psychology textbooks. She’d been kicked out of Harvard before earning a Ph.D. and suffered from chronic health issues, and this was something she could do from home. Then she quit that job, having decided to upend the field rather than “teaching the received gospel to a bunch of credulous college students.”
Read more: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/r-i-p-judith-rich-harris-the-woman-who-showed-us-how-little-parents-matter/?source=Snapzu

Caroline Lucas urges parliament to 'seriously consider' tax on meat

Parliament must “seriously consider” levying a tax on meat to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help to render the farming industry carbon neutral, the Green party MP, Caroline Lucas, is urging. She will say on Friday that a meat tax in the UK could be offset for more sustainable meat producers, such as organic livestock farmers, through more money for sustainable agriculture schemes.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/04/caroline-lucas-green-mp-meat-tax-oxford-farmers-conference-prioritise-sustainability?source=Snapzu

Will the world embrace Plan S, the radical proposal to mandate open access to science papers?

Since the September 2018 launch of the Europe-backed program to mandate immediate open access (OA) to scientific literature, 16 funders in 13 countries have signed on. That's still far shy of Plan S's ambition: to convince the world's major research funders to require immediate OA to all published papers stemming from their grants.
Read more: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/01/will-world-embrace-plan-s-radical-proposal-mandate-open-access-science-papers?source=Snapzu

Turkey’s magical hangover cure

Pickles are an integral staple of Turkish cuisine, and a glass of pickle juice is famed as a quick, tasty and natural cure for even the fiercest of headaches.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20181218-turkeys-magical-hangover-cure?source=Snapzu

Word of the Year 2018 is...

The Oxford Word of the Year 2018 is… toxic. The adjective toxic is defined as ‘poisonous’ and first appeared in English in the mid-seventeenth century from the medieval Latin toxicus, meaning ‘poisoned’ or ‘imbued with poison’. But the word’s deadly history doesn’t start there. The medieval Latin term was in turn borrowed from the Latin toxicum, meaning ‘poison’, which has its origins in the Greek toxikon pharmakon – lethal poison used by the ancient Greeks for smearing on the points of their arrows.
Read more: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/word-of-the-year/word-of-the-year-2018?source=Snapzu

J.R.R. Tolkien on Fairy Tales, Language, the Psychology of Fantasy, and Why There’s No Such Thing as Writing “For Children”

“I do not believe that I have ever written a children’s book,” the great Maurice Sendak once said in an interview. “I don’t write for children,” he told Colbert. “I write — and somebody says, ‘That’s for children!’” This sentiment — the idea that designating certain types of literature as “children’s” is a choice entirely arbitrary and entirely made by adults — has since been eloquently echoed by Neil Gaiman, but isn’t, in fact, a new idea.
Read more: https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/12/05/j-r-r-tolkien-on-fairy-stories/?source=Snapzu

Christians and Jews overrepresented in new U.S. Congress — nonreligious most underrepresented

More than 6 percent of the new Congress is Jewish, with 34 Jews among the total of 535 lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate. Jews make up 2 percent of the U.S. population, so Congress as a whole is more than thrice as Jewish as the country in general, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center on religion in the new Congress, which was inaugurated Thursday.
Read more: https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/christians-and-jews-overrepresented-in-new-u-s-congress-1.6808102?source=Snapzu

Corona beer to replace plastic packaging with biodegradable alternative

Mexican lager brand Corona is launching a pilot program to replace it’s plastic 6-pack ring packaging with a biodegradable alternative. The new packaging is 100% plastic-free and made from plant-based biodegradable fibres, with a mix of by-product waste and compostable materials.
Read more: https://www.adventurelifestylenetwork.com/environment/corona-beer-replace-plastic-packaging-biodegradable-alternative/?source=Snapzu

New food guide to encourage Canadians to eat more plant-based protein

A draft document of Canada's upcoming food guide emphasizes plant-based sources of protein.
Read more: https://globalnews.ca/news/4816615/new-food-guide-plant-protein/?source=Snapzu

Why You Should Start A Blog In 2019

The independent blog has been in decline for years. It doesn’t have to be that way. Here’s why you should start a blog in 2019—and host it yourself.
Read more: https://tedium.co/2019/01/01/2019-independent-blogging-trends/?source=Snapzu

Where to Download All the Books That Just Entered the Public Domain

Starting at midnight on January 1, tens of thousands of books (as well as movies, songs, and cartoons) entered the public domain, meaning that people can download, share, or repurpose these works for free and without retribution under US copyright law. Per the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998, “corporate” creations (like Mickey Mouse) can be restricted under copyright law for 120 years. But per an amendment to the act, works published between 1923 and 1977 can enter the public domain 95 years after their creation. This means that this is the first year since 1998 that a large number of works have entered the public domain.
Read more: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qvq99b/how-to-download-the-books-that-just-entered-the-public-domain?source=Snapzu

What Will Writing Look Like in 2019?

Identifying change is a difficult thing when you’re looking through a microscope at a sliver in time. But if you think back to five or…
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