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| 69th Infantry Division, 777 Tank Battalion, on the road to Leipzig, April 1945. The soldier stands over the machine gunner's hatch. |
~Louis L'Amour, Education of a Wandering Man
Doctors' fee transparency website goes live but fails to list who charges what
- He who burns down his house knows why ashes cost a fortune.
- If you are building a house and a nail breaks, do you stop building or do you change the nail?
- — Rwandan proverb
7 Science-Based Strategies To Boost Your Willpower and Succeed with Your New Year’s Resolutions
New Year’s self-improvement! Tips on how to organize your life to as to improve your willpower
The 20 most popular reader’s photos of 2019 TreeHugger
Thousands of Koalas Feared Dead in Australia Wildfires Common Dreams
'If you don't need to be here, stay away': New message to South Coast tourists
Emergency services have issued a strong message to holidaymakers in the lead up to New Year as fires continue to threaten popular spots across the region.
The Rise of Biometric Authentication – The Rewards and Risks Data Science Central (PJH). Oddly ignores the way just about every financial institution I speak to asks me to authorize taking a voice print….and readers have said JP Morgan takes one whether you agree or not.
Uninstall This Alleged Emirati Spy App From Your Phone Now Wired. Since I don’t do apps, I can afford to be blase…but explain to me why the UAE spying on me is more worrisome that Uber stealing my contacts as well as recording my rides (including taking a video in the car) or fitness apps sharing my data with Lord only knows who?
Why an internet that never forgets is especially bad for young people MIT Technology Review
Barack Obama Releases The List Of His Favorite Books Of 2019
As usual, it’s “an eclectic mix of fiction and nonfiction,” and the former president included the collected works of Toni Morrison, who died in August. – Los Angeles Times
Why Our New Year’s “Starting Over” Motivations Don’t Work
Results from six studiessupport this idea that focusing on the pursuit of a goal can be helpful in the long term. The researchers encouraged more than 1,600 people who had just achieved a personal goal to reflect on their recent success through the lens of either a “destination” or a “journey.” They found that those who thought about their goal as part of a journey were more likely to continue making progress towards it—even though they’d supposedly already achieved it. – Nautilus
UNESCO was created to support the “intellectual and moral solidarity of mankind.” Who could be against that? Many people, as it turns out... UNESCO
Her mom was lost in dementia’s fog. Singing Christmas carols brought her backMPR News
Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines, tracking the locations of hundreds of thousandsWaPo
WOW: Man living bent in half has spine broken and rebuilt in 4-part surgery
SPACE: Apple Has Secret Team Working on Satellites To Beam Data To Devices
JEFF DUNETZ: Giuliani Claims He’s ‘More Of A Jew’ Than George Soros: Liberals Freak (But He’s Right). ... References to WWII
MANAGE YOUR MONEY, YOU MUST: 10 Money Lessons We Learned from Star Wars
How Flamenco Went Pop
The Spanish star Rosalía has made the harrowing music of Andalusia into a global phenomenon.
ADVERSARY TECHNOLOGY: How Your Phone Betrays Democracy. “In the United States, and across the world, any protester who brings a phone to a public demonstration is tracked and that person’s presence at the event is duly recorded in commercial datasets. At the same time, political parties are beginning to collect and purchase phone location for voter persuasion. . . . Within minutes, with no special training and a little bit of Google searching, Times Opinion was able to single out and identify individuals at public demonstrations large and small from coast to coast. By tracking specific devices, we followed demonstrators from the 2017 Women’s March back to their homes. We were able to identify individuals at the 2017 Inauguration Day Black Bloc protests. It was easy to follow them to their workplaces.”