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Lufthansa has climate-friendly fuel on its flights—for a fee.

It’s all about human’s poor capacity for risk assessment.
Many people believe that chemicals, particularly the man-made ones, are highly dangerous. After all, more than 80,000 chemicals have been synthesized for commercial use in the United States, and many have been released into the environment without proper safety testing.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

In one paid Twitter ad, the Xinhua News Agency claims that “escalating violence” at the protests is taking a “heavy toll on the social order.” It goes on to claim that “all walks of life in Hong Kong” are calling for order to be restored.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

I won’t sugarcoat it: I was sometimes miserable. But the internship helped me break into my current job as a journalist.

Leave it to graphic design legend Massimo Vignelli to come up with a clever system that saved the government money—and is still in use today.

Today, the national parks are represented in our visual culture primarily through photographs posted on social media.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

There are many reasons we stay in jobs longer than we should—and reasons why it often takes a tragedy to consider changing things up. But there’s a way to avoid this.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Even financial experts can fall prey to bad advice.

They are selling avocado toast salad.
As Lao Tzu once said, “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow.” Keep that in mind as we tell you that all 1,800-plus Target locations across the country will start stocking a brand new grocery line beginning next month.

Yazidi survivor and refugee Adiba Qasim kicks off the third season of Awake At Night.
No one ever wants to become a refugee. Or as the Somali poet Warsam Shire put it, “No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark.” That’s the sentiment that Melissa Fleming, chief spokesperson for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), hopes you keep in mind on World Humanitarian Day and any time you read headlines about refugees or asylum seekers fighting for peace and safety in this world.

Every day, there’s a vital (and vitriolic) debate happening in Twitter comment threads about how we solve the country’s housing crisis. Is the issue too complex to be grappled with on a platform that encourages single-sentence thoughts?More | Talk | Read It Later | Share