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Caste in California: Tech giants confront ancient Indian hierarchy The update came after the tech sector - which counts India as its top source of skilled foreign workers - received a wake-up call in June 2020 when California's employment regulator sued Cisco Systems (CSCO.O) on behalf of a low-caste engineer who accused two higher-caste bosses of blocking his career. Continued here

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If at first you don't succeed, raise $350 million and try again Housing in the United States has a problem. And Adam Neumann, the charismatic founder known for successfully rebranding shared office space as WeWork, and unsuccessfully running it, thinks he has a solution: Flow. This residential real estate startup wants to address a wide variety of issues, including housing availability, a lack of social interactions in a remote world, and the inability of renters to gain equity. Continued here

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10 Ways to Overcome Ageism While Job Hunting During Retirement It's never too late to start a new job. It's estimated that, on average, a typical American worker now has more than ten jobs over the course of their lifetime. But unfortunately, whether you're inspired to enter a new field or want a new job after you retire, one of the biggest obstacles to re-entering the workforce can be ageism. Continued here

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What Comes After Ambition? Something’s been happening with the ambitious women in my life. A friend who used to be focused on climbing the corporate ladder in her marketing job—while dabbling in a series of side hustles—is trying to figure out how to backpedal. A lawyer at a big tech company who’s the breadwinner for her family is taking a leave of absence. A creative force of nature who burned out mid-pandemic is trying to make peace with the not-that-difficult job she took just to hold on to her health insurance. Continued here

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Stop drinking, keep reading, look after your hearing: a neurologist's tips for fighting memory loss and Alzheimer's You walk into a room, but can't remember what you came in for. Or you bump into an old acquaintance at work, and forget their name. Most of us have had momentary memory lapses like this, but in middle age they can start to feel more ominous. Do they make us look unprofessional, or past it? Could this even be a sign of impending dementia? The good news for the increasingly forgetful, however, is that not only can memory be improved with practice, but that it looks increasingly as if some cases of Alzheimer's may be preventable too. Continued here

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Why Waking Up in the Middle of the Night Is Actually Normal | Well+Good To be clear, that doesn’t mean waking up and staying awake or struggling to fall back asleep should also be your norm. But a few middle-of-the-night awakenings occur naturally as a product of our sleep architecture, meaning the way we cycle between sleep stages throughout the night. “A sleep cycle lasts from 90 to 120 minutes, including the time it takes to transition from lighter to deep sleep and then into rapid eye movement (REM) sleep,” says Dr. Peters. “As a period of REM ends, the person will briefly wake up.” Continued here

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You Have No Idea How Good Mosquitoes Are at Smelling Us Nothing gets a female mosquito going quite like the stench of human BO. The chase can begin from more than 100 feet away, with a plume of breath that wafts carbon dioxide onto the nubby sensory organ atop the insect’s mouth. Her senses snared, she flies person-ward, until her antennae start to buzz with the pungent perfume of skin. Lured closer still, she homes in on her host’s body heat, then touches down on a landing pad of flesh that she can taste with her legs. She punctures her victim with her spear-like stylet and slurps the iron-rich blood within. Continued here

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How mammals won the dinosaurs' world Through darkness, ash and deadly heat, a tiny furry animal scurries through the hellscape left behind by the worst day for living things in Earth's history. It picks through the wreckage, snatches an insect to eat, and scuttles back to its shelter. All around it are the dead and dying bodies of the dinosaurs that have terrorised mammals for generations.  Continued here

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How to set an effective boundary Your parents may have taught you that “no” is a complete sentence, but actually saying it — or setting a boundary in general — can be tricky. Sometimes, you feel uncomfortable setting the boundary; sometimes, the other person hates it and has a strong reaction. But the fact remains that in your romantic relationships, at work, in your family, and in friendships, you’re going to have to set some boundaries one way or another. Continued here

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Plunge Into Powerful Introspection With These 100 Deep Quotes! As we go through each day, there are many ups and downs. We have moments where everything is just chugging along perfectly and other times where there are challenges—our focus gets cloudy and we likely feel pulled into distractions. In these times of frenzy, we all need a little encouragement to remember what really matters and possibly change our perspectives. If you are looking for a little inspiration and motivation to dive deeper into what's all around us, these 100 deep quotes will help to get you back on track. Continued here

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Why So Many Cars Have Rats in Them Now But in January 2021, the mechanics at Urban Classics Auto Repair in Bedford-Stuyvesant were stumped: The “check engine” message kept flashing on the dashboard of Ms. Denault’s car, despite the vehicle’s driving just fine. “They did a bunch of tests and couldn’t figure out what it was,” she said. Continued here

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The Best Free (or Cheap) Financial Courses for Beginners Money is a weirdly taboo subject, and many of us made it through our entire educational careers without partaking in any serious money management lessons—undoubtedly to our detriment. A lot of us manage to buy houses and earn and save surprisingly large amounts of income without really understanding anything at all about our money. Perhaps that’s one reason the average amount American has only saved a measly $65,000 for retirement, while carrying an average debt of $90,460. Continued here

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Archive of Our Own's 15-year journey from blog post to fanfiction powerhouse In May 2007, fanfiction and traditionally published author Naomi Novik wrote a post on LiveJournal. “We are sitting quietly by the fireside, creating piles and piles of content around us, and other people are going to look at that and see an opportunity,” she wrote, referring to LiveJournal’s booming fanfiction community. Continued here

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All of Your Smart Devices Are Spying on You At this point, it’s obvious that our smartphones and computers are data-leakers. Plenty of us now cover our laptops’ webcams (although we always forget about the mics), while our smartphones track our locations with us wherever we go. Unfortunately, these tools are so indispensable in modern life, we accept the privacy hit in order to function with the rest of society, and do what we can to keep our data secure. Continued here

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75 years of India partition: How tech is opening window into past As India-Pakistan tensions hamper visits, social media helps people connect and online projects share oral histories. Continued here

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How a Coerced Confession Shaped a Family History

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More than a summit to scale At around 8:30 p.m. on May 11, the eight members of the Full Circle Everest Expedition reached their summit window, where they would begin the climb to the worl… Continued here

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The Olympics don't want competitive lifesaving. But maybe they should. - Sports Illustrated Bright orange, they lurk at the far end of the pool, lying in wait until they can be reached and rescued by the swimmers. Known in the parlance of the sport as manikins, they may be inanimate, but they’re the main characters: These are the titular lives that need to be saved. Actual liveliness notwithstanding. Continued here

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Inside the Final Days of 'The Wendy Williams Show' For 12 years she was one of daytime’s most bold and beloved personalities. Then she was gone, replaced by a string of guest hosts amid tabloid rumors. Now a behind-the-scenes look at what really went down with TV’s queen of the purple throne. Continued here

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Bring that beat back: why are people in their 30s giving up on music? For the last few years, I have felt the inescapable disappearance of music from my friends’ lives. Even people with whom I have longstanding relationships that were born from a shared love of music have simply let it go, or let it fade deep into the background. A 2015 study of people’s listening habits on Spotify found that most people stop listening to new music at 33; a 2018 report by Deezer had it at 30. In my 20s, the idea that people’s appetite to consume new music regularly would be switched off like some kind of tap was ludicrous. However, now I’m 36, it’s difficult to argue with. Continued here

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How To Start Cooking There’s nothing better for your health, wallet, or personal sense of accomplishment than learning how to cook. We’ve pulled together the best resources to help you establish confidence in the kitchen, from proper preparation and creative shortcuts to mastering simple but brilliant techniques. Grab your knives (carefully!) and let’s get started. Continued here

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Why Do So Many Recipes Call for So Little Garlic? As the memes go, the proper way to measure garlic is with your heart. One clove is not enough for any recipe, unless it’s a recipe for “how to cook one clove of garlic,” in which case you should still use two. More extreme: When the recipe calls for one clove, use at least a head. Why? Because there is no such thing as too much garlic. Continued here

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The Best Ways to Play Vintage Games on Your Modern TV So, you want to play retro video games? Excellent. Whether you’re exploring old favorites or digging for new treasures, there’s a huge library of titles out there waiting for you. Some retro enthusiasts (like your dear author) will fall down the rabbit hole of era-appropriate hardware— original consoles, game paks, and CRTs—but not everyone wants to deal with those hassles (or costs). Fortunately, playing retro games on your flatscreen can be just as beautiful and satisfying as lugging a 120-pound CRT up three flights of stairs to your apartment. Continued here

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The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask was never supposed to exist [Ed. note: Earlier this week, Boss Fight Books launched a crowdfunding campaign for Season 5 of its ongoing game book series. The campaign has already exceeded its goal, but is open for backers interested in books on Final Fantasy 6, Resident Evil, Silent Hill 2, Red Dead Redemption, and The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask. Below, we have an excerpt from the book on Majora’s Mask.] Continued here

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Yes, you have to brush your kid's baby teeth. Even though they're going to fall out. Is it really that important for kids to brush baby teeth that are going to fall out anyway? Continued here

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Teens, Social Media and Technology 2022 The landscape of social media is ever-changing, especially among teens who often are on the leading edge of this space. A new survey of American teenagers ages 13 to 17 finds that TikTok has established itself as one of the top online platforms for U.S. teens, while the share of teens who use Facebook has fallen sharply. Continued here

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What the Alex Jones trial means for the future of conspiracy culture New York (CNN)The Texas jury's decision last week to have Alex Jones face punitive damages of more than $45 million in a lawsuit filed by the parents of Sandy Hook shooting victim Jesse Lewis was a "reckoning that was 10 years in the making," CNN's chief media correspondent Brian Stelter said. Continued here

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How many Russian soldiers have been killed in Ukraine? What we know, how we know it and what it really means. The estimates range from 1,351 and 43,000, but this much is clear: Russia has a manpower problem. Continued here

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Bangkok's oldest street reinvents itself - now it's the hippest place to be Charoenkrung Road was the first in Bangkok to be paved. Now it runs through what has become arguably the Thai capital’s hippest neighbourhood, with five-star hotels, quirky street art and stores, and classy bars. Continued here

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Are these the most offbeat places in South India? Known for being a paradise for trekkers, it’s an ancient mountain fortress located around 3 km from Chikkballapur. It can be best explored in a day trip from Bengaluru. As you reach the place, embark on a 2-hour easy trek up a well-marked route on the 1350 m high peak. And as you reach the top, you are rewarded with some gorgeous views around, and not to forget, some fresh air. Continued here

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Why Companies’ Attempts to Close the Gender Pay Gap Often Fail Gender pay equity has become a big point of contention at many companies. But the most common approaches for identifying a pay gap and resolving it are full of pitfalls for the unwary. That’s because it’s a tall order: you have to calculate the gap the right way and figure out how to fix it without ballooning your wage bill, all while truly helping underpaid women, maintaining your incentive structure, and avoiding the creation of new legal liabilities. The authors have extensively researched the most common ways companies try to fix a pay gap – and how these fail or cause other problems. They’ve found that closing a gender gap without regard to cost effectiveness can be prohibitively expensive; however, only focusing on cost (as many managers do) creates more problems than it solves. They suggest first identifying which employees are contributing the most to the gender pay gap at your firm, and then allocating raises as efficiently as possible to close the gap — while working within the framework of your HR strategy and norms of fairness. Continued here

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If Your Company Were a Political Party, Which Would It Be? There’s a taboo around political conversations at work. We assume work is separate from the real and sensitive politics of the external world. The state, as a proxy for a political system, is seen to be responsible for climate, collective problems, management of violence and maintenance of our human capabilities. It promotes welfare, justice, equality, freedom, peace and many other values. Meanwhile, the sole responsibility of business is to make money. Business aims for profit and it’s just ‘different’. Continued here

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Two Keys to a Calmer Emotional Life Life can feel like an emotional rollercoaster sometimes, swinging from highs of joy and love to lows of grief and betrayal. Yet we all probably know someone who seems to be less jostled by the turbulence of it all. Continued here

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How Amazon Consumed All of Commerce If you’ve ever tried to research how the Big Bad Tech Monopolies of our time got so big and bad, you’ll find that these stories are typically pretty straightforward. Google, for example, started as a search engine company in the mid-90's, and spent decades buying and bullying competitors until it swallowed just about all of the search engine market. Facebook started as a social network, and then copied or bought out the competition until it became the most popular social network on the planet. But Amazon... well, Amazon’s a bit different. Continued here

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The Crypto Geniuses Who Vaporized a Trillion Dollars Everyone trusted the two guys at Three Arrows Capital. They knew what they were doing — right? Continued here

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Don't Focus on Your Job at the Expense of Your Career The gap between what we have to do today and where we see ourselves in the future can be vexing. We’d like to advance toward our goals, but we feel dragged down by responsibilities that seem banal or off-target for our eventual vision. In this piece, the author offers four strategies you can try so that you can simultaneously accomplish what’s necessary in the short-term while playing the long game for the betterment of your career. Continued here

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Remote workers are starting new businesses behind their bosses' backs Her full-time job involves helping dentists in California, but her new business, Blurred Bylines, focuses on small firms and nonprofits in Michigan, where she lives and works remotely. Rose says her main job is still her main priority. She also says her job is aware of her startup and is okay with it. Continued here

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What scientists know -- and don't know -- about how monkeypox spreads In some ways, the virus is acting differently than it has in the past. For decades, researchers in West and Central Africa, where the virus is endemic, have observed that outbreaks there tend to be self-limiting. A single case or small cluster would pop up occasionally, caused by hunting and handling infected animals or being bitten by one, but those spillover events rarely kicked off long chains of transmission within communities. Continued here

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Your body may be pushing you to make worse choices after a day of hard thinking, study finds Does it feel like you don't have much control over the decisions you make after a long day of hard thinking? You are not alone. New research has shown the biological processes behind cognitive fatigue, and experts share what you can do about it. Continued here

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What Lies Beneath: Our Love Affair With Living Underwater In November 1966, the Gemini 12 spacecraft, carrying two astronauts, splashed down in the Pacific. The four-day mission was a triumph, proving that humans could work in outer space, and even step into the great unknown, albeit tethered to their spacecraft. It catapulted the US ahead of the USSR in the space race. Continued here

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The Coming California Megastorm This vapor plume will be enormous, hundreds of miles wide and more than 1,200 miles long, and seething with ferocious winds. It will be carrying so much water that if you converted it all to liquid, its flow would be about 26 times what the Mississippi River discharges into the Gulf of Mexico at any given moment. Continued here

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That's It. You're Dead to Me. Last spring, my boyfriend sublet a spare room in his apartment to an aspiring model. The roommate was young and made us feel old, but he was always game for a bottle of wine in the living room, and he seemed to like us, even though he sometimes suggested that we were boring or not that hot. Continued here

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Habit Stacking Will Trick Your Mind Into Adopting a New Habit | Well+Good Developed by self-help author S.J. Scott in his book Habit Stacking: 97 Small Life Changes That Take Five Minutes or Less, the concept of habit stacking is just what it sounds like. You identify any regular habit (which can be as small as brushing your teeth or closing your laptop at the end of a workday), and build a new habit on top of that existing habit. Think: “After I brush my teeth, I will wash my face.” Just like with an actual building, the stronger or more ingrained the foundational habit, the better you’ll be able to construct a new habit on top of it and secure it in place—at which point, you can add another on top of that one, and so on. Continued here

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The Work of Radical Frugality There are some people who are frugal by nature, some who practice frugality as a mandate of their faith, and some, like myself, who embrace frugality by necessity. I live within a limited income as a bulwark against a consumer culture and capitalist agenda that would prefer we consume our way to oblivion—both ours and the planet’s. We are in a quagmire given the conundrum of the capitalist agenda, a system that requires endless consumption and growth to survive, and a planet that is begging we cease. Personally, I’d rather take my instruction from Mother Earth.  Continued here

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From Netflix to Disney Plus, This Clever Trick Can Save You Money on Streaming Cut back on your streaming TV budget with this useful method. Continued here

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Why you should really stop charging your phone overnight Do you plug in your phone every night right before you go to bed? Here's what you should be doing instead. Continued here

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How to revive your old computer As a man of a certain age, I know that everything slows down as it gets older. But with computers, that decline can be especially precipitous. After just a couple of years, bootups can grow sluggish, apps may take longer to load, and the spinning wheel of death can become a more frequent feature of your user experience. Continued here

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What happens if the world gets too hot for animals to survive? The last time climate was as warm as it will be in the next 50 to 100 years was 3 million years ago. Continued here

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Life hacks: Handy uses for silica gel packets - YOU Magazine Consumer group Which? shared a video showing all the handy uses for silica gel packets around the house, and it's a serious game-changer. Continued here

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Newcastle United Is Finding Out What Winning in the Premier League Really Costs Last year, Newcastle United, the deeply beloved and perpetually mismanaged team from North East England, was taken over by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. Now fans are finding themselves in the middle of a debate around money in the game, and what a foreign country wants with a football club. Continued here

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Meet the private chef to Premier League footballers Evidently, the legendary Raymond Blanc agreed. Marsh managed to land a job at Le Petit Blanc, where he was able to hone his craft and learn the ropes of being a professional chef. His performance was so impressive that Blanc wasted no time in offering Marsh an apprenticeship at Le Manoir – his two Michelin star restaurant. But after only a couple of years, Marsh became hungry to build a reputation for himself. Continued here

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The Making of Silent Bruce Bruce Willis’s stardom began in a boardroom at ABC in 1984. The network’s top executives had gathered to discuss Moonlighting creator Glenn Gordon Caron’s desire to cast the lead male role of David Addison with Willis, an ex-bartender from New Jersey whose only notable credit was a guest spot on Miami Vice. The executives pushed for a famous name to pair with Cybill Shepherd, a model turned actress who’d been a familiar face since the late 1960s, until the lone female executive in the room announced that she preferred Willis because he looked like “one dangerous fuck.” Continued here

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20 of the Best Science Fiction Books of All Time | Book Riot Before we get started, let me define “best” for you real fast. In this context, best does not secretly mean my favorite science fiction that I’m calling best because I’m the one writing the article. The best science fiction books of all time — at least the ones on this list — are the ones that remain highly rated, are incredibly popular, or have made some sort of mark on the science fiction genre or its various sub-genres, even mainstream culture as a whole. There are also only 20 books on this list, meaning it is not conclusive, as I am one person. I will inevitably miss a book that you think belongs on this list. So many science fiction falls into the definition of “best” that I’m using. Continued here

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It's a Great Time to Hunt For Rare Fruit Online Chefs and home cooks are finding Hana yuzu, Meiwa kumquats, and hundreds of hard-to-find fruits just a click away. Continued here

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In FX's 'The Bear,' Italian beef is a means for grief. Here's how memory and food span science, time and place Food scientists and cultural cooks share how meals help us heal from personal loss. Continued here

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How Animal Crossing helped me explore my gender It’s 2013, and tonight my friends and I are getting together to wish on falling stars during a meteor shower. Like many young teens meeting up with their pals, I want to show off my sense of style, so I spend a solid amount of time trying on different skirts, dresses, and accessories in order to find the cutest look. Luckily, I don’t have to worry about how comfortable the outfit will be or whether the fabric will chafe against my skin since the clothes aren’t going on my physical body but, rather, on my villager in the world of Animal Crossing: New Leaf for the Nintendo 3DS. Continued here

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Meet the Obsessive Role-Players Who Live Inside the World of Grand Theft Auto

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How to Recognize 'Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria' in Your Child A term gaining traction in the neurodivergent community is Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD), which means someone feels pain when they’re criticized or feel like they’re being put down or rejected in any way. Kids with ADHD often have RSD, which is often mislabeled as being a “bad sport,” “too sensitive,” or a “crybaby.” Here we outline the signs of RSD and speak to some experts on how to help your child cope with it. Continued here

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Why is a mother serving more time than the man who abused her daughter? Failure-to-protect laws are incarcerating women all over the country—for other people's violence. Continued here

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Ayatollah Khomeini Never Read Salman Rushdie's Book Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini never read Salman Rushdie's book "The Satanic Verses," his son Ahmed told me in Tehran, in the early nineteen-nineties. The Iranian leader's murderous 1989 fatwa against the British American writer was a political move to exploit the erupting fury in Pakistan, India, and beyond over a fictional dream sequence involving the Prophet Muhammad. The book's passages, which portrayed human weaknesses and undermined the Prophet's credibility as a messenger of God, were blasphemous to some Muslims. Continued here

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How can India turn around the Parsi community's dwindling demographics? | DW | 16.08.2022 "A couple may decide to have just one child, because of rising expenses and wanting to focus all your resources on the single child," Cyrus Dhabhar, a Parsi man with one child from Mumbai, told DW. "But there are always some relatives, or acquaintances, who keep saying that you should have at least two or three children." Continued here

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How early should you get to the airport? There have always been two types of travellers: those who get to the airport extra early and those who cut arrival times as close to take-off as possible. And our editors fall on both sides of the spectrum of this eternal debate. But the truth is that nobody likes to waste time. So what are the exact recommendations for how early you should get to the airport? Continued here

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The Real Reason Why Most Plane Seats Are Blue—and Other Curious Facts About Plane Cabins

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The Crypto Geniuses Who Vaporized a Trillion Dollars Everyone trusted the two guys at Three Arrows Capital. They knew what they were doing — right?The boat was a beauty of a thing: some 500 tons across 171 feet of glass and steel as white as Santorini. All rounded edges, the five decks - one with a glass-bottom pool - were made for July on the Mediterranean, sunset dinners among the islands near Sicily, cocktails in the turquoise shallows off the coast of Ibiza. Her would-be captains showed off pictures of the $50 million vessel at parties, bragging that it would be "bigger than all of the richest billionaires' yachts in Singapore" and describing plans to adorn the staterooms with projector screens, creating a waterborne gallery for their growing collection of digital art in the form of NFTs. Continued here

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The Banana Trick and Other Acts of Self-Checkout Thievery Beneath the bland veneer of supermarket automation lurks an ugly truth: There's a lot of shoplifting going on in the self-scanning checkout lane. But don't call it shoplifting. The guys in loss prevention prefer "external shrinkage." Continued here

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How to Answer the Most Nerve-Wracking Interview Questions Helpful, straightforward approaches to discussing your salary expectations, resume gaps, and yes, weaknesses. Continued here

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Remote workers are starting new businesses behind their bosses' backs Her full-time job involves helping dentists in California, but her new business, Blurred Bylines, focuses on small firms and nonprofits in Michigan, where she lives and works remotely. Rose says her main job is still her main priority. She also says her job is aware of her startup and is okay with it. Continued here

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What Happens When You Stop Eating All Sugar Giving up the sweet stuff is challenging since it's found in unsuspecting places, like veggie burgers, tomato sauce, and crackers. But if you do nix added sugars from your diet, your body will benefit almost immediately, according to Dr. Eric Pham, M.D. at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Orange, California. Continued here

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What Lies Beneath: Our Love Affair With Living Underwater In November 1966, the Gemini 12 spacecraft, carrying two astronauts, splashed down in the Pacific. The four-day mission was a triumph, proving that humans could work in outer space, and even step into the great unknown, albeit tethered to their spacecraft. It catapulted the US ahead of the USSR in the space race. Continued here

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The Coming California Megastorm This vapor plume will be enormous, hundreds of miles wide and more than 1,200 miles long, and seething with ferocious winds. It will be carrying so much water that if you converted it all to liquid, its flow would be about 26 times what the Mississippi River discharges into the Gulf of Mexico at any given moment. Continued here

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Improve Your Life With the 80/20 Rule In the late 1890s, an Italian economist named Vilfredo Pareto observed a curious relationship between wealth and population in Italy. His calculations showed that 80% of the land in Italy was owned by just 20% of the population. He did similar surveys in other countries and found the same ratio. Continued here

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Back-Burner Relationships: The Psychology Behind “What if” and Why We Can't Let Go of Past Relationships Whether it's an ex that checks in every few months "just to see how you are" or a past date that you can't help but think there could've been more to, many of us, whether we're conscious of it or not, have casual, fleeting relationships with people from our past that we can't just fully detach from. Continued here

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The Work of Radical Frugality There are some people who are frugal by nature, some who practice frugality as a mandate of their faith, and some, like myself, who embrace frugality by necessity. I live within a limited income as a bulwark against a consumer culture and capitalist agenda that would prefer we consume our way to oblivion—both ours and the planet’s. We are in a quagmire given the conundrum of the capitalist agenda, a system that requires endless consumption and growth to survive, and a planet that is begging we cease. Personally, I’d rather take my instruction from Mother Earth.  Continued here

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From Netflix to Disney Plus, This Clever Trick Can Save You Money on Streaming Cut back on your streaming TV budget with this useful method. Continued here

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Why you should really stop charging your phone overnight Do you plug in your phone every night right before you go to bed? Here's what you should be doing instead. Continued here

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The Massive Effort to Change the Way Kids Are Taught to Read As a teacher in Oakland, Calif., Kareem Weaver helped struggling fourth- and fifth-grade kids learn to read by using a very structured, phonics-based reading curriculum called Open Court. It worked for the students, but not so much for the teachers. “For seven years in a row, Oakland was the fastest-gaining urban district in California for reading,” recalls Weaver. “And we hated it.” Continued here

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The Baseball Stadium That "Forever Changed" Professional Sports Camden Yards, which opened 30 years ago this summer, is revered for its design and downtown location. But its influence—along with its lessons—extends beyond architecture. Continued here

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'That's It? It's Over? I Was 30. What a Brutal Business': Pop Stars on Life After the Spotlight Moves On In her classic memoir, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys, Viv Albertine recounts not only the time she spent as a punk during the 1970s in her pioneering band the Slits, but also documents her life after the band had ended. This is unusual. Most music books don't venture into this territory, tending to stop when the hits stop, thereby drawing a veil over what happens next. The unspoken suggestion seems to be that, were it to continue, the story would descend helplessly into misery memoir. Continued here

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20 of the Best Science Fiction Books of All Time | Book Riot Before we get started, let me define “best” for you real fast. In this context, best does not secretly mean my favorite science fiction that I’m calling best because I’m the one writing the article. The best science fiction books of all time — at least the ones on this list — are the ones that remain highly rated, are incredibly popular, or have made some sort of mark on the science fiction genre or its various sub-genres, even mainstream culture as a whole. There are also only 20 books on this list, meaning it is not conclusive, as I am one person. I will inevitably miss a book that you think belongs on this list. So many science fiction falls into the definition of “best” that I’m using. Continued here