‘It’s really embarrassing and gross for them’

A MELBOURNE landlord has been blasted online after a tenant revealed he had installed a coin-operated toilet in the house, requiring the tenants to pay per flush. That’s right, the stingy landlord and owner of an apartment property in Thornbury has reportedly equipped the toilet with a mechanism that means residents have to pay $1 to flush the dunny. Unsure about the legality of such a contraption, the tenant posted the story on forum-based social media website reddit to ask the community if the landlord was allowed to do this.
Read more: http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/social/melbourne-landlord-blasted-for-installing-coinoperated-toilet/news-story/780c0048f0bf87afa325438ffaf6aa56?source=Snapzu

5 Reasons Ginger Belongs In Your Belly Now

The holidays are a time when gingerbread men and houses reign supreme, but there are plenty of reasons to incorporate ginger into your diet all year round.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2016/12/21/5-reasons-to-add-ginger-to-your-diet-now/?utm_hp_ref=au-food?source=Snapzu

Things you were taught at school about grammar that are wrong

Were your teachers right about when to use commas, and about not starting sentences with 'and'?
Read more: https://theconversation.com/things-you-were-taught-at-school-that-are-wrong-70327?source=Snapzu

Your Life in Weeks

All the weeks in a human life shown on one chart. Sometimes life seems really short, and other times it seems impossibly long. But this chart helps to emphasize that it’s most certainly finite. Those are your weeks and they’re all you’ve got. Given that fact, the only appropriate word to describe your weeks is precious. There are trillions upon trillions of weeks in eternity, and those are your tiny handful. Going with the “precious” theme, let’s imagine that each of your weeks is a small gem, like a 2mm, .05 carat diamond.
Read more: http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html?source=Snapzu

French workers win legal right to avoid checking work email out-of-hours

From Sunday, French companies will be required to guarantee their employees a “right to disconnect” from technology as the country seeks to tackle the modern-day scourge of compulsive out-of-hours email checking. On 1 January, an employment law will enter into force that obliges organisations with more than 50 workers to start negotiations to define the rights of employees to ignore their smartphones.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/dec/31/french-workers-win-legal-right-to-avoid-checking-work-email-out-of-hours?source=Snapzu

To save books, librarians create fake ‘reader’' to check out titles

Chuck Finley appears to be a voracious reader, having checked out 2,361 books at the East Lake County Library in a nine-month period this year. But Finley didn't read a single one... By Jason Ruiter.
Read more: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/lake/os-chuck-finley-lake-library-fake-reader-20161227-story.html?source=Snapzu

How to Become a ‘Superager’

Sudoku isn’t enough. You have to push yourself.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/31/opinion/sunday/how-to-become-a-superager.html?source=Snapzu