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Welcome, soft idiot. You’ve been issued a Human Body, the most fragile, overpromised, poorly updated model in the known universe. It arrives preloaded with ten to fourteen irrational fears, a vague longing for something you can’t name, and knees made of soup.

Please review the following terms and conditions. You agreed to all of them by being born without asking.

SECTION 1: BASIC OPERATIONS

To operate your Human Body, please consult no one. Everyone is making it up. Even the experts are crying in public bathrooms. That said, here’s a brief guide:

• To walk: Shift your weight and hope.
• To speak: Open your mouth. Regret everything.
• To cry: Happens automatically when watching underdog sports movies or looking at your own reflection too long in a subway window.
• To love: Apply pressure directly to the wound. Repeat until numb or until the object of affection becomes unavailable, indifferent, or worse—sincere.

WARNING: Excessive self-awareness may void your warranty.

A comic about an old couple recording a video of a squirrel and a cat.

ICE attorneys fighting to deport immigrants are able to obscure their identities — no masks required.

The post ICE Lawyers Are Hiding Their Names in Immigration Court appeared first on The Intercept.

1. Thirteen-year-olds work unsupervised in ninety-degree heat.

2. The water contains disturbingly high levels of mercury and pee.

3. Strictest workplace safety regulation: NO RUNNING sign.

4. Its leader stars in garish commercials that wake you up at 3 a.m., and his eyes follow you from towering billboards along the interstate.

5. Medical emergencies are handled in the official Monster Energy Refueling Tent.

6. Purchases can only be made using proprietary currencies with unknowable exchange rates pegged to arbitrary reserves, mostly oversized novelty sunglasses.

7. Every single tree was chopped down to make room for another Dippin’ Dots cart.

8. The legal system consists of a dozen private security guards who skim profits from the gift shop and skim bugs from the Lazy River.

9. Strange men are free to ogle young women with no repercussions.

10. The sewage system is made up of thirty-seven porta-potties and one large bush.

What studying people without a ‘mind’s eye’ reveals about the role of imagery in the experience of emotion and memory

- Video by Quanta Magazine

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The highway I’d helped build stretched before me. For the first time, I saw clearly what we had done

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To explore the deep sea is to understand the human story and the nature of knowledge

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Laura Poppick’s 3 greatest revelations while writing her book, Strata: Stories from Deep Time

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Lessons for our current Earth from the geologic past

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In an exclusive interview with The Grayzone’s Oscar Leon, former Bolivian President Evo Morales details a trove of leaked chats and documents which show how an electoral council member took money in exchange for disqualifying him from running for president again. As his country’s first indigenous president and the leader of powerful social movements, Evo remains popular among his base. Here, Morales addresses the attacks he has weathered from the current Bolivian president, Luis Arce, who relied on him to […]

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