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Whatever Happened To Linda Park, ‘Hoshi Sato’ From Star Trek Enterprise? – Ned Hardy

A CIA Spyplane Crashed Outside Area 51 a Half-Century Ago. This Explorer Found It – Popular Science

This tower fan is saving me right now from the non-stop heatwave. It’s also super quiet and has a bunch of cool features – Amazon

‘Date Me’ Google Docs and the Hyper-Optimized Quest for Love – Wired

10 Simple Things to Make You Happier At Home – Apartment Therapy

The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse – The Guardian

Scientists Discovered an Antibody That Can Take Out All COVID-19 Variants – Prevention

Ruby was the first Black child to desegregate her school. This is what she learned – NPR

US bars ‘advanced tech’ firms from building China factories for 10 years – BBC

OnlyFans Model With Two Vaginas Says One Is For ‘Work’ And One For ‘Personal Use’ – Ruin My Week

This is a really solid car phone mount. Whether on a dashboard or windshield, it’s easy to set up, grips securely, and has a strong magnetic mount that supports most phones in any position – Amazon

12 Amazing Things You Don’t Know About the Founding Fathers – Linkiest

Speeding woman on cocaine kills drunk driver high on meth in North Las Vegas – 8News Now

The 12 Best La Verne Restaurants In 2022 – Van Life Wanderer

Which LIV Golf Defector Has Won the Most Money Since Leaving PGA Tour? – Inside Hook

ER doctors describe 14 cases where urgent care is a better option than the ER – Insider

Why does it hurt so much when we get ghosted? A psychologist explains – Ideas

How Bruce Lee’s ‘Game of Death’ Overcame the Demise of Its Leading Man – Mental Floss

Juul will pay $438.5 million to states over youth vaping investigation – The Verge

All Electric Semi Truck Models in One Graphic – Visual Capitalist

Physics breakthrough could lead to new, more efficient quantum computers – The Next Web

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Confessions Of An Ex-Mercenary

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How does one become a mercenary ?

Typically you start somewhere. I was a US Army Paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne. Friends of friends found me, and got my first contract to go to Africa.

How’s the pay?

Pay can fluctuate. First of all, there’s a lot of deadbeats in this space. For example, Liberia asked me to create a littoral sea fighting force, but I couldn’t figure out how they would actually pay (regardless of promises) so I walked away. Never work for the UN. Total deadbeats.

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What is a Psychedelic Experience Like?

“Euphoria and insight,” as Roger Sterling said in Mad Men, but while the ‘visuals’ are what’s publicized, they really only make up a very small portion of the experience.

The #1 thing psychedelics do is make you unable to rationalize how important events and emotions are supposed to be, similar to the way a child thinks. In other words, it makes EVERYTHING seem incredibly significant, in a way it’s almost impossible to experience otherwise. You are INCREDIBLY attuned to small emotional / mood / vibe changes, and are in a heightened, much more “raw” state of being. This can be incredibly enlightening (or terrifying, depending on how your trip goes).

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Iceland’s National Dish: Hákarl – Anthony Bourdain once described it as “the single worst, most disgusting and terrible tasting thing” that he had ever eaten and Gordon Ramsay couldn’t even swallow it.

I ate four pieces of the hákarl, and to be fair I would say it was only the third worst thing I have ever tasted.

It smells strongly of ammonia (think cleaning chemical concentrations) and… well… a vaginal yeast infection left untreated for months.

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Brendan Fraser Brought to Tears As The Whale Receives 6-Minute Standing Ovation at Venice Film Festival – Consequence of Sound

Whatever Happened To Chase Masterson, ‘Leeta’ on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine? – Ned Hardy

If you have trouble sleep, wear some blue light blocking glasses when the sun goes down. The light emiting from your monitor, phone and ipads can interfer with your natural sleeping patterns – Amazon

How to Say the Unsayable: 10 Ways to Approach a Sensitive, Daunting Conversation – The Guardian

Gladiator School: an oral history inside a violent juvenile prison – Medium

The U.S. diet is deadly. Here are 7 ideas to get Americans eating healthier – NPR

Five Animals That Can Sense Things You Can’t – Popular Science

10 Chance Meetings That Changed the World – Mental Floss

What did dinosaurs actually sound like? Take a listen – VOX

The surface layers of the vaginal wall are made of mucosal tissue—similar to the tissue that lines your mouth, nose, and digestive tract – Clue

A really great pair of scissors that stays super sharp and are great for those everyday tasks around the house – Amazon

New study links problematic pornography use to the desire to avoid unpleasant thoughts and feelings – Psypost

The 14 Best Monterey Park Restaurants In 2022 – Van Life Wanderer

Black Lives Matter executive accused of ‘syphoning’ $10M from BLM donors – CBS

The 20 Best Wholesome Memes – Linkiest

Korea to Triple Baby Payments After It Smashes Own Record for World’s Lowest Fertility Rate – Bloomberg

Man who jumped from 18th floor of NYC tower identified as Bed Bath & Beyond CFO – NY Post

Your Flight Is Canceled. See What Each Airline Is Supposed to Offer You – WSJ

4 Things Your Daughter Needs To Know About Inner Beauty – Inspire More

10 Choices You Will Regret in 10 Years – Marc and Angel

The Charity Has Fulfilled The Dying Wish Of Over 14,000 People

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A Dutch ambulance driver has helped fulfill the dying wishes of more than 14,000 people.

Retired paramedic Kees Veldboer, 60, came up with the idea while assisting a former sailor whose only wish was to sail a ship once more. Veldboern arranged for the stretcher-bound man to go sailing and so that was the beginning of Veldboer’s new humanitarian path — making wishes come true.

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Why Aren’t Students Taught Practical Things In School? (Build Things, Sewing, Financial Literacy, Cooking)

The first and most obvious part of it is that the past couple years have definitely proven that adults at large do not have a great grasp of critical reading skills, along with other things that have been vital to understanding the world around them like how statistics work, scientific principles, or understanding research practices like peer review. This means that the average sixth grader definitely does not possess all the learning from the core subjects they’ll need.

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Newsboys and Newsgirl getting afternoon papers in New York City

On July 18, 1899, newspaper boys in Long Island City, Queens, discovered that a supplier was short-changing the bundles of newspapers that the boys had to buy upfront from distribution centers before selling them off on the streets.

In retaliation, they overturned his cart, ran him out of town, and destroyed or stole all his papers. Word quickly spread to Manhattan, where newsboys were already upset over the high prices they had to pay per bundle of papers from publishers William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer.

The next day, thousands of newsies gathered in City Hall Park to form a union and elected 18-year-old Louis “Kid Blink” Baletti as their president.

Then, they called for a city-wide strike until the price of papers for newsies was lowered — and against all odds, the boys won.

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Always Invite Her Out Even If You Think It’s Pointless

Sometimes when you meet a woman out in your daily life, you only get to chat for a few moments.

Because the conversation went by so quickly, you don’t bother inviting her out to see her again. You assume that there’s no way she’d be open to the idea in that short timeframe.

You think you didn’t talk to her long enough. You feel you didn’t build enough chemistry or get into a more engaging conversation. Maybe you believe you weren’t funny enough.

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