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Squatters don't sit well with Airbnb hostssfgate.com
Cory Tschogl says she has an Airbnb squatter - a guest who rented her Palm Springs vacation condominium, then stopped paying rent, refused to leave and threatened her with legal action. Although Airbnb and similar platforms use reviews of hosts and gu... - nfb.org
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Dying at the Grand Canyonfivethirtyeight.com
The Grand Canyon is a safe place to visit. I’d trade the dangers of most highways for the security of a well-mapped hole in the Earth anytime. In the 1990s, the National Park Service reported that ... -
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Transcript for Race Swaponthemedia.org
What happened when a black woman writer went online disguised as a white man? She got a lot fewer death threats, for one thing. - hope.net
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We only use 10% of our brains? That’s 100% wrongqz.com
It’s a common conversation starter to assert that we only use 10% of our brains. In Lucy, the soon-to-be-released thriller about a woman forced to work as a drug mule for the Taiwanese mob, Professor Norman [Morgan Freeman] lectures, “It is estimated m... -
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Report: Climate changing more rapidly than at any point on recordnews.sciencemag.org
From pole to pole, few parts of the globe are being spared warm-up -
Amazon's Cloud Is One of the Fastest-Growing Software Businesses in Historybusinessweek.com
Pacific Crest Securities estimates that Amazon's cloud computing revenue will reach $5 billion this year -
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Income Inequality Is Not Rising Globally. It's Falling.nytimes.com
Though the income gap has widened in many individual nations, it has been shrinking globally for most of the last 20 years. -
Documentary Photography and Photojournalism: Still Images of a World in Motionocw.mit.edu
This course is an introduction to the great tradition of documentary photography. Students learn to see the world around them in a new way and produce a documentary project. The course requires reading and writing about photography, as well as doing it... -
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How Israel's "Iron Dome" workseconomist.com
ISRAEL has long been protected by its famed “iron walls”. Now those walls have a rooftop. Israel’s arms manufacturers have devised an anti-missile system,... - zdziarski.com
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madbence/node-drawille-canvasgithub.com
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Moral Effects of Socialismmarginalrevolution.com
Dan Ariely and co-authors have an interesting new paper looking at moral behavior, specifially cheating, in people who grew up in either East or West Germany. From 1961 to 1989, the Berlin Wall divided one nation into two distinct political regimes. […]