What Would You Like to Hear on The Upgrade? 

What Would You Like to Hear on The Upgrade? 
We’re all about self-improvement on The Upgrade, whether we’re learning how to embrace boredom, how to have a better sex life, or how to be more resilient. So it’s only sensible that we’d take a step back and look at how to improve the podcast itself. That’s right: we’re upgrading The Upgrade. Read more... from Lifehacker...
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To Get Your Kids to Take Your Advice, Have Someone Else Give it to Them 

To Get Your Kids to Take Your Advice, Have Someone Else Give it to Them 
On the parenting podcast What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood, co-host Amy Wilson told a childhood story about how she loved to poop in a diaper “until a pretty ripe old age.” She knew she shouldn’t do it, and her mom and dad knew she knew, but their efforts to get her to stop weren’t working. And so… Read...
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Read Reddit's Favorite Life Hacks

Read Reddit's Favorite Life Hacks
Redditors are sharing their favorite “life pro tips” in an AskReddit thread, and we’ve collected the best below. Strung together, they feel like a mundane modern Art of War: briefly worded tactics and strategies for fighting the good fight. Learn tricks for falling asleep, starting hard tasks, and calculating… Read more... from...
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This Ginger Dressing Tastes Exactly Like it Came From a Japanese Restaurant

This Ginger Dressing Tastes Exactly Like it Came From a Japanese Restaurant
I am obsessed with ordering side salads at sushi restaurants. Not because I feel the need to keep my body running with leafy greens—because I love that damn ginger dressing. I’ve tried to make it at home before, never quite getting it right, until I stumbled on the secret while trying to make a dipping sauce. The key,… Read...
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Staircases in Space: Why Are Places in Science Fiction Not Wheelchair-Accessible?

Staircases in Space: Why Are Places in Science Fiction Not Wheelchair-Accessible?
Space, as we all know, is the final frontier. It’s the star-spangled playground in which our imaginations run amok, and the setting for stories that made us fall in love with sci-fi. Some of us spent hours pretending we were the Doctor’s companions, helping him find Gallifrey from the TARDIS. Some of us imagined the...
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The Easiest Way to Load a Broken Webpage

The Easiest Way to Load a Broken Webpage
Say a webpage isn’t loading right. Maybe it’s collapsed from too much traffic after going viral on Reddit. Maybe it’s blocked in your country thanks to a law like GDPR. Maybe it was recently deleted. Usually Google has a saved copy of that page. And the quickest way to get that saved copy is to type cache: in the… Read...
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Deadspin Bryce Harper Is Available | Jezebel Alaska Airlines Made a Same-Sex Couple Move so a Straig

Deadspin Bryce Harper Is Available | Jezebel Alaska Airlines Made a Same-Sex Couple Move so a Straig
Deadspin Bryce Harper Is Available | Jezebel Alaska Airlines Made a Same-Sex Couple Move so a Straight Couple Could Sit Together | Splinter Jesse Watters Says We Don’t Want ‘Some Guy’s Uncle From Zimbabwe’ in America | The Root Betsy DeVos Doesn’t Give a Damn About Students, Education or the Cost Thereof...
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Get Free Guac at Chipotle Today

Get Free Guac at Chipotle Today
Amid the whirlwind of festivities around National Avocado Day, you might have missed the news that Chipotle is offering free guacamole with purchases through their mobile app or website today. Read more... from Lifehacker https://ift.tt/2OuRV4V https://ift.tt/2LVpE...
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Deadspin Why Your Team Sucks 2018: Cleveland Browns | Splinter Medicare for All Will Save Trillions,

Deadspin Why Your Team Sucks 2018: Cleveland Browns | Splinter Medicare for All Will Save Trillions,
Deadspin Why Your Team Sucks 2018: Cleveland Browns | Splinter Medicare for All Will Save Trillions, Conservative Wonks Forced to Admit | The A.V. Club “Hitler was liberal” is just one insight offered by Dinesh D’Souza’s fraudulent Death Of A Nation | Very Smart Brothas Things Black People Say When...
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Did Twitter Shadow Ban You?

Did Twitter Shadow Ban You?
Last week the president, alluding to a poorly researched article by VICE News, accused Twitter of “shadow banning prominent Republicans.” Twitter didn’t shadow ban anyone. But they did hide some Republican politicians’ accounts, not because they were Republicans, but for two more embarrassing reasons. Read more... from...
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Jezebel ‘I Don’t Have to Explain Shit to You’: Restaurant Manager Fired After Ordering a Black Woman

Jezebel ‘I Don’t Have to Explain Shit to You’: Restaurant Manager Fired After Ordering a Black Woman
Jezebel ‘I Don’t Have to Explain Shit to You’: Restaurant Manager Fired After Ordering a Black Woman to Leave [Update] | The Root White Fox News Guest: ‘There’s Nothing Worse Than Being Called A Racist’ | Splinter Why Income Inequality in the US Is Way Worse Than in Europe | Deadspin Braves Announcers...
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Can You Get Sick From Air Conditioning?

Can You Get Sick From Air Conditioning?
At the peak of summer, when just walking to and from the corner store necessitates a shower and a change of clothes, air-conditioning can seem almost too good to be true. It is one of the few staples of modernity without severe and readily apparent downsides: all it does, or all it seems to do, is make things cooler,… Read...
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Should You Drop Your Traditional Bank for Amazon?

Should You Drop Your Traditional Bank for Amazon?
Amazon is expected to start offering a “checking-account-like product” for consumers who don’t already have bank accounts, the Wall Street Journal reported back in March. Other tech companies, like investing platform Stash and student loan refinancer SoFi, are also trying to get into the checking account game. Read more... from...
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Tell Us Your Portland, OR Travel Tips

Tell Us Your Portland, OR Travel Tips
Even if you live in a “hipster” city like Austin, Brooklyn, Seattle, and San Francisco, you should take a trip to the prime hipster city, Portland. It’s an easy city to visit, with affordable food and entertainment, fun options for splurging, beautiful parks, temperate weather, efficient transportation (even from the… Read...
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This Feature-Packed Dyson Air Purifier Costs Less New Today Than It Does Refurbished

This Feature-Packed Dyson Air Purifier Costs Less New Today Than It Does Refurbished
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