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Capture Your Family History With These Tools

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Capture Your Family History With These Tools Imagine popping your head into the attic of your childhood home and finding a box overflowing with recordings, photos, documents, and diaries compiled by relatives who have long passed. Congratulations: you’ve won the family history lottery. Read more…

Lifehacker 193 2023-08-22

How to delete your Twitter history

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How to delete your Twitter history Illustration by Samar Haddad / The VergeOver the last few months, Elon Musk’s X, which was formerly known as Twitter, has been a bubbling cauldron of strange advertising decisions, continuous upheavals, and weird overflows of testosterone. Not that Twitter has ever been calm waters. Before Musk, Twitter was the social media world’s most reliabl…

The Verge 129 2023-08-18

The Real History of Labor Day

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The Real History of Labor Day You probably don’t have to work on the first Monday of September, but why? The name “Labor Day” suggests a holiday that’s all about American workers, but most of us just see it as an excuse for a three-day weekend, and to celebrate the end of summer. Read more…

Lifehacker 218 2023-08-18

How to turn off and delete your YouTube watch history

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How to turn off and delete your YouTube watch history Illustration by Samar Haddad / The VergeMany app homepages have gotten incredibly busy, filled with suggestions and ads, many based on your previous searches or stuff you’ve read / written / watched in the past. YouTube is certainly no exception — in fact, it’s one of the worst offenders — but recently, Google’s video service announced that user…

The Verge 171 2023-08-11

You Should Turn Off Your YouTube Watch History

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You Should Turn Off Your YouTube Watch History When I open YouTube these days, it’s mostly a mess. Sure, the videos they recommend me to watch vaguely resemble the type of content I’m interested in. But for the most part, I scroll past most of the noise until I see something half-way decent to click on. More often than not, the videos I enjoy watching most on… Read more…

Lifehacker 240 2023-08-10

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: Simon Sarris: School Is Not Enough

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David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: Simon Sarris: School Is Not Enough David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: Simon Sarris: School Is Not Enough This post is an essay by Simon Sarris that recently appeared in the magazine Palladium. Here’s a link to the original.  I can’t say that I buy the argument Sarris is making here, but I sure find it illuminating.  He’s saying that we used to induct …

The Best Education Blog 168 2023-08-08

LPT: Learn more about your parents medical history

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LPT: Learn more about your parents medical history Even if you’re not in a best relationships with them, try to learn more about that Many things they have/had or just predisposed to are already inside of you and they’re waiting Genetics can be a bitch. submitted by /u/laundry_room

Life Pro Tips 158 2023-08-02

Reddit, what is your “all star” starting five characters in TV/Movie history?

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Reddit, what is your “all star” starting five characters in TV/Movie history? Since people always make top 5 all time starting-five for NBA rosters and sports etc, figured it’d be fun to do it in cinema. Heres mine: Sheldon Cooper (The Big Bang Theory) Captain America (Marvel Cinematic Universe) Jon Snow (Game Of Thrones) Walter White (Breaking Bad) Gandalf (Lord Of The Rings) submitted by /u/SempiternalX …

Reddit Television 146 2023-07-24