Author: timbatchelder
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Urban Animals Are Becoming Nocturnal
Even non-threatening activities like hiking are changing creatures’ sleep cycles. Source: Urban Animals Are Becoming Nocturnal – The Atlantic
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Here’s the Hourly Wage You’ll Need to Afford a Two-Bedroom in the US
There is nowhere in the U.S. where a full-time worker earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 could afford a two-bedroom rental apartment working 40 hours per week, according to a study released Wednesday from the National Low Income Housing Coalition. In fact, workers need to make on average of $22.10 per hour to…
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It’s not you, it’s them: How to survive a gaslighting boss
Whether it’s the boss that overshares, the boss without work/life balance, or the one who micromanages, bad bosses are the subject of happy hour grievances and the top cause of employee turnover at companies across the country. Source: It’s not you, it’s them: How to survive a gaslighting boss | Ladders
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HandyShower – Your very own portable bathroom.
HandyShower is an innovative 3-in-1 personal hygiene system that serves as a faucet, a bidet or a shower. In other words, your very own portable bathroom. Source: HandyShower – Your very own portable bathroom.
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Zendesk’s New AI-Powered Knowledge Management Product Looks Set To Power Their Next Stage Of Growth
Zendesk has gone from $100 to $500 million in annualised sales in the last four years. This makes them one of the fastest growing customer experience platforms on the market. They are betting that knowledge management and their new AI-powered tool will be key to their their next stage of growth. Source: Zendesk’s New AI-Powered…
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Exposure to the bacteria in soil can be good for mental health, and could treat depression and prevent PTSD
No one would blame you for not wanting your body to be infested with creatures from your garden. But maybe you should rethink your position. Source: Exposure to the bacteria in soil can be good for mental health, and could treat depression and prevent PTSD — Quartz
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Airbnb Partners with City of San Jose to House Potential Disaster Victims
Hotel Business | Posts Source: Airbnb Partners with City of San Jose to House Potential Disaster Victims | Hotel Business
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Can You Get An Exorcism From a Catholic Priest Over the Phone?
This year’s Catholic course in exorcism suggest the answer might be…yes? Source: Can You Get An Exorcism From a Catholic Priest Over the Phone?
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New Study Shows Full Extent of Radiation Damage to Hiroshima Victims
A study decades in the making shows victims may have absorbed double a deadly dose. Source: New Study Shows Full Extent of Radiation Damage to Hiroshima Victims
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This Device Will Capture Ideas from Your Dreams
A MIT-designed device can prolong and capture memories during a semi-lucid dream state that has inspired geniuses throughout history. Source: This Device Will Capture Ideas from Your Dreams
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Snapping a photo impairs our ability to remember the subject (and scientists can’t figure out why)
Photographers use their equipment as a means of showing the world to others through their eyes. But those snapping the pictures may be altering their own memory of the subject, according to a new study. Julia Soares and Benjamin Storm, two researchers from the University of California, documented their findings in the most recent issue…
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Religion isn’t the opiate of the masses — AI is
Overall leisure time has increased by over an hour per day in the past ten years. How are we spending these extra 365 hours per year? Not playing with our kids, working on passion projects, exercising, or any other wholesome activity you may have guessed — we’re spending it in front of screens. In 2007,…
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