Will Meyer | Longreads | January 2019 | 15 minutes (4,073 words) “At the museum steps Didn’t we establish That all this blood is not a dream This is progress And we are not that high We could almost be redeemed” — unreleased song by The Lentils * For years, changes in butterfly populations and…

Steve Jobs Never Wanted Us to Use Our iPhones Like This The devices have become our constant companions. This was not the plan. Mr. Newport is a computer scientist and author. Credit Zak Tebbal Smartphones are our constant companions. For many of us, their glowing screens are a ubiquitous presence,…

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On May 18, 1980, Mount St Helens erupted in the US state of Washington. The blast, which measured 5 on the Volcanic Explosively Index, has been declared as the most disastrous volcanic eruption in modern US history. An huge column rose 80,000 feet into the atmosphere and deposited ash in 11 states,…

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One day after reports of drone activity near Newark Liberty International Airport temporarily halted flights, there are questions about whether the unmanned object spotted in the New Jersey sky was indeed a drone. Officials with the Federal Aviation Administration said at about 4:45 p.m. on Tuesday…

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AddThis Sharing Buttons The Moon Phenomenon of May 19, 1780-No. 1 R.E. Delafield By RICHARD E. DELAFIELD, Pastor-Evangelist, Texico Conference Under the sixth seal of Revelation 6, four great phenomena of nature were to occur. "There was a great earth­quake ; and the sun became black as sackcloth of…

VERSAILLES, France (Reuters) - President Emmanuel Macron told dozens of the world’s most powerful executives on Monday that he would not follow the path of guillotined French royals and would continue to reform the French economy despite a sometimes violent popular revolt. For the second year…

German chancellor Angela Merkel gave a deeply disturbing speech at the Konrad Adenaur Foundation in Berlin, where she stated in no uncertain terms that the traditional idea of a nation-state is dead. Zero Hedge: "Nation states must today be prepared to give up their sovereignty" , according to…

Digital company INE Entertainment has fired a journalist who publicly wished for the death of several Covington Catholic High School students and their parents in a pair of tweets over the weekend. Aside from his job as a post-production supervisor at INE, Erik Abriss is a contributor to New York…

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news analysis Donald J. Trump at the Trump Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City in 1990. People who worked with him before he was elected said they saw several parallels between Mr. Trump the businessman and Mr. Trump the steward of the country’s longest government shutdown. Credit Ángel Franco/The New…

Kolesov Sergei / Shutterstock / The Atlantic Mort Felix liked to say that his name, when read as two Latin words, meant “happy death.” When he was sick with the flu, he used to jokingly remind his wife, Susan, that he wanted Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” played at his deathbed. But when his life’s end…

Reuters Like many people who spend too much time on Twitter, I watched with indignation Saturday morning as stories began appearing about a confrontation near the Lincoln Memorial between students from Covington Catholic High School and American Indians from the Indigenous Peoples March. The story…

President Trump blasts 'disgraceful' Buzzfeed after Mueller disputes Cohen report Buzzfeed News stands by Cohen report, says there's 'no indication' the story is inaccurate; Kevin Corke reports from the White House. BuzzFeed, a popular “news” website, has once again been shamed for publishing fake…

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For someone who has a day job and a side hustle… Diana Li Oct 3, 2018 “person operating black audio mixer” by Laurent Perren on Unsplash I Am “Not Allowed” to Get up at 5am. There’s a popular practice of getting up at 5am , well described by Benjamin P. Hardy . I believe that. I just can’t do it.…

Morning Book Benjamin Hardy Jan 10, 2018 While serving a humanitarian and ecclesiastical mission at the age of 20, I learned potentially the most important lesson of my life. How you spend your morning determines your success in life. How you spend your morning determines who you will become. How…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The celestial curtain will be rising soon on a lunar extravaganza. Sunday night, the Earth will slide directly between the moon and the sun, creating a total lunar eclipse. There won’t be another until 2021. It will also be the year’s first supermoon, when a full moon…

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Here comes a total lunar eclipse and supermoon, all wrapped into one. The moon, Earth and sun will line up this weekend for the only total lunar eclipse this year and next. At the same time, the moon will be ever so closer to Earth and appear slightly bigger and brighter…

Yuri Gripas / Reuters As the longest government shutdown in American history lurches toward its fifth week, a grim but growing consensus has begun to emerge on Capitol Hill: There may be no way out of this mess until something disastrous happens. This is, of course, not a sentiment lawmakers are…

The Sexts of Jeff Bezos and the Death of Privacy We can’t look away. But we should. Contributing Opinion Writer Jeff Bezos in 2014. His private messages should not have turned into tweets for the entire world to see, writes Kara Swisher. Credit Mike Segar/Reuters It turns out that internet…

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show chapters Tesla shares fall after layoff announcement — Five analysts on what's next 5 Mins Ago | 06:39 Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk sent an email to employees on Friday announcing the company would cut full-time staff by around 7 percent. In the note , Musk says the firm faces a "very…

Elephants wouldn’t be killed for their tusks if there wasn’t a demand for ivory. We can do all sorts of things to discourage poachers, but as long as the market is there, the killings will continue. Likewise, the flood of privacy scandals involving Facebook, ad exchanges, and other privacy poachers…

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