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food safety

We Asked Food Policy Experts What They Thought of Trump's Plan to Dissolve the FDA

If Trump gets his way, he probably should avoid eating pretty much any and all food—at least without a royal taste tester. But maybe he has one of those.
Alex Swerdloff
9.17.16
Stuff

Meet the Guerrilla Lifeguard Watching Over Toronto’s Late Night Pool Hops

The Nightlifeguard project is an informal effort to make pool hopping safer and fun.
Kristel Jax
9.17.16
tutorial

Hack This: Become a Command Line Assassin

One of your operating system's most powerful tools is more accessible than you think.
Michael Byrne
9.17.16
Stuff

What You Can Learn About Charming People from a Dominatrix

At some point, you're going to have to get people to listen to you—whether at college, work, or with your housemates—and this isn't the worst place to start.
Margaret Corvid
9.17.16
Noisey News

NBA Champion Iman Shumpert, Still Very Good at Music, Raps That He’ll Take a Knee for the Anthem

“His Story” follows last month’s Yeah Yeah Yeahs-sampling “Glory.”
Alex Robert Ross
9.17.16
NIGERIA

Boko Haram left an estimated 5 million people in Nigeria on the brink of famine

"We will see, I think, a famine unlike any we have ever seen anywhere," United Nations Assistant Secretary-General Toby Lanzer said in Brussels last week.
Kayla Ruble
9.17.16
Photo

Photos of the People, Buildings, and Found Objects We Barely Notice in Cities

When Carlos Alba moved from Madrid to London, he ended up making sense of the area using found objects and a little hand-drawn map.
Carlos Alba; Words: Tshepo Mokoena
9.17.16
video

Archival Student Film Takes on Techno-Anxiety Circa 1958

Enjoy: 'Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?'
Michael Byrne
9.17.16
Fashion

Designers Are Trying to Make Fashion Week Great Again

Industry insiders all agree that the way designers present collections is outdated and ineffective, as is the breakneck pace of the fashion cycle. This New York Fashion Week, however, some designers challenged the status quo.
Erica Euse
9.17.16
Stuff

How Two American Teens Became Assassins for a Mexican Cartel

'Wolf Boys,' a new book by Dan Slater, details the bloody rise and fall of two Texas teenagers who became contract killers for the Zetas, the most violent drug cartel in Mexico, killing dozens of people in the process.
Seth Ferranti
9.17.16
Comics!

'2 X Larson,' Today's Comic by Emile Brahe

Meet the identital dancing Larson Twins in this strange Danish comic by Emile Brahe.
Emile Brahe
9.17.16
security

Florida Man Found Guilty of Running Child Porn Site ‘Playpen’

The FBI took over the site, and ran it themselves for just under two weeks.
Joseph Cox
9.17.16
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