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April 1, 2015
With Dan Barber's Dumpster Dive Experiment, Table Scraps Get Celebrity Chef Treatment
Grazing the garbage-filled menu at WastED, a pop-up restaurant meant to bring awareness to food waste.
The menu at the experimental pop-up restaurant WastED, which recently had an 18-day run inside Blue Hill's Manhattan location, came fully loaded with synonyms for garbage. Diners could choose a dumpster dive vegetable salad with damaged apples and pears; two dishes served up cuts of waste-fed pigs, one with a side of waste kraut. Even the items that didn't directly call something trash employed terms suggesting that what you're about to eat is table scraps. Pockmarked potatoes, melba toast from yesterday's oatmeal, yesterday's bread, reject carrot mustard, and mystery vegetables are all on offer.
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Simple Ways To Trick Yourself Into Being More Patient
The amount of patience you have might be a fundamental part of your personality, but you can learn the trait with these small habit changes.
Our hyper-connected lives have one major drawback: patience.
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March 31, 2015
Today in Tabs: Noah Country For Old Tabs
You're probably wondering why you saw so many transgender people today.
Comedy Central announced yesterday that the new host of the Daily Show will be Trevor Noah. The news was greeted from all corners of the `net with ecstatic cries of "literally who?" so our news explainers quickly got to work on journalism's five familiar questions–not just "who?" but also "meet?", "know?", "need?", and "Vox?":
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ESPN Just Redesigned Its Site For The First Time Since 2009—Here Are 4 Takeaways
White space! Infinite scroll! Responsive design! One of the largest sites on the planet finally gets a makeover.
Most of the rituals in my life, like drinking fancy tea or starting every day with a cold shower, tend to fizzle out after a few months once my initial enthusiasm fades. But there are a few tendencies that have stuck. As far back as I can remember—and only after looking both ways to make sure whoever my boss happens to be isn't in eyeshot—after checking my email and Twitter, I secretly fire up a tab to check ESPN.
ESPN Just Redesigned Its Site For The First Time Since 2007—Here Are 4 Takeaways
White space! Infinite scroll! Responsive design! One of the largest sites on the planet finally gets a makeover.
Most of the rituals in my life, like drinking fancy tea or starting every day with a cold shower, tend to fizzle out after a few months once my initial enthusiasm fades. But there are a few tendencies that have stuck. As far back as I can remember—and only after looking both ways to make sure whoever my boss happens to be isn't in eyeshot—after checking my email and Twitter, I secretly fire up a tab to check ESPN.
Facebook Tracks You Even If You Opt Out, Says Belgian Report
An investigation has revealed Facebook seeds your computer with tracking cookies, no matter what.
If you have suspected Facebook is tracking you for ad campaigns, no matter what, all the time: You are right. A report commissioned by Belgium's data protection agency has slammed Facebook for tracking people online, even if they are not logged into Facebook, even if they have opted out of tracking—even if they are not Facebook users at all, The Guardian reported Tuesday. The European Union has been coming after Facebook and Google for alleged anti-privacy practices for a while, but now it finally has proof that Facebook is disobeying privacy requests from users in direct violation of EU law. Prepare for a showdown.
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Net-A-Porter Merger Could Create "World's Biggest Luxury Fashion Store"
Two e-commerce sites could merge to create an online fashion market with an expected annual revenue of more than $1.4 billion.
Two of the world's best-known e-commerce sites for luxury clothing and accessories—London-based online fashion retailer Net-a-Porter and Italian e-commerce clothing company Yoox Group SpA—are merging to create a new monolithic e-retailer with an expected annual revenue of more than $1.4 billion.
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Your 2-Minute New Music Roundup, With Jay Z, Joy Williams, Ludacris, And More
Hear new music from Joy Williams, All Get Out, and Toro y Moi, and find out what #TIDALforALL is all about.
Jay Z has a star-studded press conference, the Smashing Pumpkins make a new video, De La Soul start a Kickstarter, and Ludacris, Death Cab, Mountain Goats, and many others release new music.
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Costa Rica Is Now Running On 100% Renewable Electricity
Weaning an entire country off fossil fuels takes some luck, lots of volcanoes, and plenty of sunshine.
In six years, Costa Rica plans to be carbon neutral. It's getting closer to that goal: In March, the government announced that the country has been running on nothing but renewable electricity in 2015.
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Tory Burch's Ex-Husband Is Now Selling Office Furniture
J. Christopher Burch, whose "revenge retail" operation C. Wonder failed mightily earlier this year, invests in office products.
I've never seen a CEO so eager to do manual labor as Randy Nicolau, chief executive of Poppin. Tall and barrel-chested, with close-cut salt-and-pepper hair, Nicolau jumps to action at the sight of a dismantled Poppin desk lying in pieces on the floor.
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