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Get 2 excellent PC adventure games for free today

Dec14
by on December 14, 2018 at 4:19 am
Posted In: Around the Web, distract, gaming


The weekend’s almost here, and if you don’t have plans, you might want to check out these two offers I just spotted. For the great low price of free – okay, well, you do have to sign up for new accounts and a newsletter – you can snag Lego – The Hobbit, and Full Throttle Remastered within the next 36 hours or so. And I highly recommend you do so. Lego – The Hobbit is one of the toy brick company’s family-friendly adventure titles based on JRR Tolkien’s incredible fantasy universe. You’ll be tasked with journeying across Middle-earth to recapture…

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a couple of laughzillas on a blue diamond background

Get 2 excellent PC adventure games for free today

Dec14
by on December 14, 2018 at 4:19 am
Posted In: Around the Web, distract, gaming


The weekend’s almost here, and if you don’t have plans, you might want to check out these two offers I just spotted. For the great low price of free – okay, well, you do have to sign up for new accounts and a newsletter – you can snag Lego – The Hobbit, and Full Throttle Remastered within the next 36 hours or so. And I highly recommend you do so. Lego – The Hobbit is one of the toy brick company’s family-friendly adventure titles based on JRR Tolkien’s incredible fantasy universe. You’ll be tasked with journeying across Middle-earth to recapture…

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‘They clearly don’t care’: Fact-checkers on the state of misinformation at Facebook

Dec14
by on December 14, 2018 at 2:53 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider


After a deluge of fake news began to overwhelm Facebook, it got proactive. The social media platform tapped bi-partisan organizations, such as Snopes, to fact-check content on the platform and use their expertise to combat the spread of misinformation. Or, that’s what we were led to believe, anyway. “They’ve essentially used us for crisis PR,” said Brooke Binkowski, former managing editor at Snopes, a fact-checking site that partnered with Facebook for two years. “They’re not taking anything seriously. They are more interested in making themselves look good and passing the buck … They clearly don’t care,” she told The Guardian.…

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DNA-based diet and exercise plans offer little more than self-fulfilling prophecy, study

Dec14
by on December 14, 2018 at 1:14 am
Posted In: Around the Web


Stanford University, over the course of a year, recruited 223 participants in a fascinating study at the intersection of diet, exercise, and DNA. Researchers sought individuals willing to take DNA tests to educate them of their personalized genetic makeup, and specifically, how it applies to diet and exercise. It was all fake. What researchers Brad Turnwald and Alia Crum were actually interested in wasn’t specialized diet plans or exercise routines, but how people reacted to them. So they devised a plan to give participants fake results, random information that was in no way tied to their actual DNA profiles. For…

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