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Tuesday, December 15, 2015

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ENTERTAINMENT 

Two Entirely Different But Equally Great Ways To Watch The Original Star Wars Saga 

If you’re a particularly rabid fan of Star Wars, you’ll know about Machete Order, the best way to watch the original trilogy and the prequel trilogy so as to best preserve the impact of one of the biggest plot twists of all time. If you’ve tried it, you’ll know just how good it is. 
If you’re not a fan, for some reason, or if you despise the prequels, then watching the original trilogy in high definition through the tireless work of a man named Petr Harmy is just about the best experience yet. Either way, make sure you do one of these two things before you watch The Force Awakens.
SCIENCE & HEALTH 

This Snail Lives Its Life Upside Down On A Bubble Raft 

This snail is happily hanging upside down from what looks like a mirror, but it’s actually the surface of the sea. The violet snail spends its adult life surfing from place to place on a bubble raft.
SOFTWARE & DESIGN 

A Totally Feasible Plan To Turn Manhattan's Busiest Street Into A 40-Block Park 

New York City has plenty of parks that revamp ageing transit infrastructure: The High Line transforms a decrepit elevated rail route, the Lowline reclaims forgotten tunnels. But neither of those is as ambitious as the Green Line, a concept that would turn a major street into a linear park.
SCIENCE & HEALTH 

Was This The First Time Science Lost Out To 'Natural Remedies'? 

Worthless natural remedies, especially when they come from “exotic” locations, have always been popular. They have also always been big business. Here’s one of the earliest struggles on record — when the richest man in Europe went after a medieval doctor.
SCIENCE & HEALTH 

These Shrink-Wrapped Mini-Droplets Look Like Tiny Curry Puffs 

Microscopic droplets shrink-wrapped in thin elastic sheets take on the telltale half-moon shape of a curry puff or an empanada. Such structures could one day replace chemical surfactants in soap, since the sheets make for a stronger barrier to encase dangerous or delicate liquids.
SCIENCE & HEALTH 

Soon We Could Have Displays And Windows That Change Colour With The Flick Of A Switch 

Medieval artisans unwittingly used nanotechnology when they mixed gold chloride into molten glass to create richly hued stained glass windows. Soon we could have full-colour displays or stained-glass windows that change colour at the flick of an electrical switch, thanks to the same kinds of light-scattering nanoparticles.
SCIENCE & HEALTH 

This Microscope Creates Near-Real-Time Nanoscale Video Of Chemical Reactions 

It’s relatively easy to create highly detailed images of even molecule-sized structures if you can keep them still — but if they move, you’ve little chance. Now, a new kind of microscope is allowing researchers to create video of nanoscale processes in near-real-time.
ENTERTAINMENT 

John Oliver's Guide To Regifting Your Christmas Junk 

Video: That fountain of wisdom, paragon of knowledge, mega-reverend and CEO of the Our Lady Of Perpetual Exemption church, John Oliver, has a guide for what to do with the mediocre, lame, terrible Christmas gift that you’re going to get this year. There’s always one. Why not fob it off to someone else?
ONLINE 

Tuesday's Biggest Stories 

Every evening, we wrap up the day’s biggest stories in one place for you to easily check out. If you’ve been off the grid all day, jump in here and catch up on current events.
How Netflix Plans To Cut Its Behemoth Bandwidth UseAt peak hours, Netflix makes up a mind-bending 37 per cent of all internet traffic in North America. 
Two Entirely Different But Equally Great Ways To Watch The Original Star Wars SagaIf you’re a particularly rabid fan of Star Wars, you’ll know about Machete Order.
76 Viral Images From 2015 That Were Totally FakeWe debunked dozens of fake photos this year, covering everything from Charles Manson’s baby photos to John Lennon’s skateboarding skills.
16 Hidden Chrome Settings Worth TweakingThe chrome://flags page is a strange and wonderful trove of hidden settings for Google’s browser.
Smugglers Busted With Nearly $400 Million Worth Of Cocaine Moulded Into Shipping PalletsRemember that scene in Traffic where they moulded cocaine into dolls? This kind of trickery happens in real life, too.
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COMPUTING 

10 Time-Saving Windows 10 Tricks And Shortcuts 

Sure, you can do things the traditional way — but why work harder when you can work smarter? With this in mind, here are ten tips to have you navigating Windows 10 in record time, so you can be getting on with more important things. You’re welcome. 
SCIENCE & HEALTH 

Photographs Capture What Life Is Like In One Of The World's Dirtiest Pits 

In the wake of the Paris Climate Agreement, it is pretty shocking to see these photographs taken in the Shanxi province in Northern China. Shanxi is the leading producer of coal in the most populated country in the world, with about 260 billion metric tonnes of coal deposits, a third of China’s total. The region produces more than 300 million metric tonnes of coal annually, and heavily depends on coal mining and burning coal for energy. That makes Shanxi is one of the most polluted areas in China.
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