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What to Do Throughout the Day to Keep Sitting From “Killing” You
What to Do Throughout the Day to Keep Sitting From “Killing” You

Adriana Velez, Lifehacker

We’ve all heard the bad news that sitting will kill you. That might be a slight exaggeration, and hey, we’re all going to die someday, after all. But our chair-loving lifestyle isn’t helping us live any longer, that’s for sure.

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Hollywood Has a Bad-Movie Problem
Hollywood Has a Bad-Movie Problem

David Sims, The Atlantic

Domestic audiences are rejecting this summer’s procession of tired sequels, and international grosses won’t be enough to keep studios afloat forever.

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Search Algorithms Kept Me From My Sister for 14 Years
Search Algorithms Kept Me From My Sister for 14 Years

Meredith Talusan, Backchannel

When we talk about the algorithms that drive sites like Google and Facebook, we marvel at their cleverness in serving us information, or we worry about the ways in which they exacerbate bias—profiling people based on gross data trends, for example, to decide who gets a loan and who doesn’t. But there is a complex web of algorithmic life-shaping at work that we barely register.

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Want to Get Better at Selling Others on Your Ideas? Learn How to Draw a Vision Map
Want to Get Better at Selling Others on Your Ideas? Learn How to Draw a Vision Map

Ayse Birsel, Inc.

A vision map shows, economically, how to get from point A (where you are today) to point B (where you want and need to get). You can write about it and you should. But if you want people to understand you quickly and intuitively, draw it for them.

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What on Earth Is Wrong With Connecticut?
What on Earth Is Wrong With Connecticut?

Derek Thompson, The Atlantic

Conservatives say the state has a tax problem. Liberals say it has an inequality problem. What it really has is a city problem.

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Why Do We Think Poor People Are Poor Because of Their Own Bad Choices?
Why Do We Think Poor People Are Poor Because of Their Own Bad Choices?

Maia Szalavitz, The Guardian

If an unexpected medical emergency bankrupts you, you view yourself as a victim of bad fortune – while seeing other bankruptcy court clients as spendthrifts. Why?

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Bernie Sanders Is the Democrats’ Real 2020 Frontrunner
Bernie Sanders Is the Democrats’ Real 2020 Frontrunner

Matthew Yglesias, Vox

He’s staffing up, touring the country, and still drawing record crowds.