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The Great American Fallout: How Small Towns Came to Resent Cities
The Great American Fallout: How Small Towns Came to Resent Cities
Katherine J Cramer, The Guardian
It’s no secret Donald Trump benefited from rural voters. But Democrat or Republican, they usually tell Katherine Cramer – who has spent a decade visiting residents of small-town Wisconsin – the same thing: it’s the cities that get all the breaks, and then have the gall to look down on them, too.
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The Most Comfortable Shoes, Now As A Slip-On
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The Most Comfortable Shoes, Now As A Slip-On
Shane Roberts, Lifehacker
Like the Wool Runners, the Loungers are ridiculously comfortable, flexible, lightweight, breathable, adaptable, and primed for your next brunch, dog walk, or ultralight packing list.
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The iPhone Is 10 Years Old. Here’s the Story of Its Birth.
The iPhone Is 10 Years Old. Here’s the Story of Its Birth.
Lev Grossman, The New York Times
The iPhone dwells among us, but it looks — it’s designed to look — as if it just moments ago entered our world from some higher, more ideal plane of existence. Just as its flat black face makes no compromise with the contours of the human skull, its gleaming, lickable surface offers no clues about where and when it was made, or by whom, or how.
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What the Amazon-Whole Foods Deal Means for Your Grocery Bill 
What the Amazon-Whole Foods Deal Means for Your Grocery Bill 
Kristin Wong, Lifehacker
“This transaction is going to change the landscape of how you buy food,” Mickey Chadha, Moody’s vice president and senior credit officer who covers Whole Foods, told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Monday morning. He expects Amazon to put pressure on grocery stores to lower prices.
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6 Things You Need to Recover From Every Day
6 Things You Need to Recover From Every Day
Benjamin Hardy, Thrive Global
When you’re at work, be fully absorbed. When it’s time to call it a day, completely detach yourself from work and become absorbed in the other areas of your life.
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The 50 Best Good Bad Movies
The 50 Best Good Bad Movies
The Ringer Staff
The bad special effects, the awful acting, the nonsensical plots — there’s something enchanting about a movie that’s hopelessly bad. After rewatching all the films your favorite actors wish you’d forget, we determined which are the best (well, best worst) ones ever.
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Cats Are an Extreme Outlier Among Domestic Animals
Cats Are an Extreme Outlier Among Domestic Animals
Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica
Unlike dogs, whose bodies and temperaments have transformed radically during the roughly 30,000 years we’ve lived with them, domestic cats are almost identical to their wild counterparts—physically and genetically. House cats also show none of the typical signs of animal domestication, such as infantilization of facial features, decreased tooth size, and docility. Wildcats are neither social nor hierarchical, which also makes them hard to integrate into human communities.
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She Was the Town's Leading Heroin Dealer. She Was 19 Years Old
She Was the Town’s Leading Heroin Dealer. She Was 19 Years Old
Chris McGreal, The Guardian
In West Virginia, a young woman and a privileged physician lived very different lives. But they shared a crushing addiction.
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The RNC Files: Inside the Largest US Voter Data Leak
The RNC Files: Inside the Largest US Voter Data Leak
UpGuard Blog
In what is the largest known data exposure of its kind, UpGuard’s Cyber Risk Team can now confirm that a misconfigured database containing the sensitive personal details of over 198 million American voters was left exposed to the internet by a firm working on behalf of the Republican National Committee (RNC) in their efforts to elect Donald Trump.
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Man Who Knew Too Much
BuzzFeed
His nuclear research helped a judge determine that former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko had been assassinated – likely on Putin’s orders. Just months after the verdict, the scientist himself was found stabbed to death with two knives. Police deemed it a suicide, but US intelligence officials suspect it was murder.
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Media Companies Are Getting Sick of Facebook
Media Companies Are Getting Sick of Facebook
Sarah Frier & Gerry Smith, Bloomberg Businessweek
News outlets are complaining about Facebook’s terms for TV-quality videos meant to compete with YouTube.