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Author: Kintsugi

  • Kintsugi
  • January 18, 2021

How to Delete 99 Percent of Your Digital Footprint

Joe McKinley Updated: Mar. 06, 2020 It is possible to make yourself “disappear” from the Internet, says Porch.com security expert Robert Siciliano. But, he warns in an infor

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  • January 18, 2021January 18, 2021

We Tried Rotisserie Chickens From 6 Grocery Stores—Here’s Our Favorite

By Sarra Sedghi  The grocery store rotisserie chicken is queen in terms of convenience. The cooked bird is cheaper than a whole raw chicken and elevates the simplest meals. Most important

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  • January 13, 2021January 13, 2021

Visualizing the U.S. Population by Race

By Iman Ghosh The American population is a unique mosaic of cultures—and almost 40% of people identify as racial or ethnic minorities today. In this treemap, we use data for 2019 f

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  • January 13, 2021

Has the President Committed Treason?

What is sedition? According to the Cambridge Dictionary, sedition is “language or behaviour that is intended to persuade other people to oppose their government”. While Donald Trump currently h

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  • January 13, 2021January 13, 2021

Worse Than Treason

No amount of rationalizing can change the fact that the majority of the Republican Party is advocating for the overthrow of an American election. JANUARY 4, 2021 Tom Nichols Author of&nbs

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  • January 4, 2021January 4, 2021

Plus-Size Clothing Should Fit Women’s Bodies, So Why Is That So Often Not The Case?

By Gianluca Russo Dec. 15, 2020 The art of finding the perfect fit clearly is costly, from collecting data to the process of hiring fit models. As Chan explains, there is so much that goes int

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  • January 4, 2021

Thinking About Post-Covid Travel?

Global Entry Application and Interview: How Not to Screw It Up By now, you’ve learned all the differences between Global Entry and TSA PreCheck, and are ready to bite the bullet and commit t

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  • January 4, 2021January 4, 2021

What are Your Goals for 2021?

We see over and over that we make resolutions at the start of the new year. Resolutions that are rarely kept, but sound good when we are struggling with them. I have goals. Here are mine for 2021.

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  • January 4, 2021January 4, 2021

20 Cookbooks for 2020

At the end of the year, people spend a lot of time writing lists of “the best of” so I am thinking about my “best of” list. Cooking has kept me sane when I wanted to be crazy, well, not wan

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  • December 30, 2020December 30, 2020

Who was the real Jesus? Here’s what archaeology tells us.

BY KRISTIN ROMEY PHOTOGRAPHS BY SIMON NORFOLK (This is why I subscribe to Nat Geo! This story appears in the December 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine.)

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  • December 30, 2020

Rockefeller Foundation built on a fossil-fuel fortune becomes largest philanthropist to shun oil investments

By  Rachel Koning Beals Dec. 19, 2020 The Rockefeller Foundation, a 107-year-old philanthropy built by oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, says it will completely break with the fossil-fuel indust

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  • December 30, 2020December 30, 2020

10 Hiding Spots Burglars Always Look First

Marissa Laliberte Under the mattress Bedroom closet Dresser drawers Portable safe Medicine cabinet Read more HERE.

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  • December 30, 2020

A Black doctor alleged racist treatment before dying of covid-19: ‘This is how Black people get killed’

Fenit Nirappil – The Washington Post – Thursday, December 24, 2020 Struggling to breathe and pausing between sentences, Susan Moore mustered enough energy to record herself from her hospital be

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  • December 30, 2020December 30, 2020

The secret history of black Santas

By Brian Wheeler BBC News, Washington DC Published 9 December 2016 In the overheated post-election atmosphere, Santa Claus is seen by some as another cherished cultural institution under attac

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  • December 30, 2020

New Labor Department rule would let employers distribute tips more widely.

Dec. 22, 2020, 6:42 p.m. ET Dec. 22, 2020 By Noam Scheiber Under the so-called tip pools authorized by the new rule, the tips of waiters and waitresses can be shared with back-of-the-house wor

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