Sunday, August 25, 2024

Three Apps That Made Me More Productive This Year

9 Smart Ways to Slash Your Grocery Bill. How to Make Millions As a Professional Whistleblower.

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August 25, 2024
RFK Jr., Exploring Greenland, and Pokémon Masters
Ten picks for today, curated by our editors. Plus, home cooking mysteries.
 
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Weekend Read
How to Make Millions As a Professional Whistleblower
A little-known provision in US law permits anyone to blow the whistle on financial fraud — and potentially take home a percentage of the funds collected. One undercover sleuth has made a wild career out of it.
GQ
Gordy Megroz
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Investigation
Why I Left The Network
Those who need therapy often have to pay out of pocket or go without care, even if they have health insurance. Hundreds of mental health providers told us they fled networks because insurers made their jobs impossible and their lives miserable.
ProPublica
Annie Waldman, Maya Miller, Duaa Eldeib, Max Blau
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Stranger than Fiction
The Cult Leader of Staten Island
When he was 19, Jeff Gross fell under the sway of Mildred Gordon and spent more than half his life in an "intentional community" they built together. It turned out to be much more than that.
Esquire
David Gauvey Herbert
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Counterintuitive
The Massive Social Security Number Breach Is Actually a Good Thing
The social security data breach highlights the risk of identity theft.
Vox
Adam Clark Estes
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Election 2024
How Much Momentum Will RFK Jr.'s Endorsement Give Trump?
Polls show Kennedy's supporters only slightly favor the former president.
FiveThirtyEight
G. Elliott Morris
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Brave New World
No One's Ready for This
The photograph is now meaningless as evidence. We are not prepared.
The Verge
Sarah Jeong
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Home Economics
9 Smart Ways to Slash Your Grocery Bill
Food prices are still high, but your grocery bill doesn't have to be. Beth Moncel, founder of Budget Bytes, shares smart tips how to save money at the supermarket.
NPR
Life Kit
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Getting Things Done
Three Apps That Made Me More Productive This Year
Lessons on taking smarter notes, reducing context switching, and building a better personal archive
Platformer
Casey Newton
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Wanderlust
Photographing One of the Most Remote Places on Earth
Frozen in for nine months every year and located 800km from the next town, Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland, offers a fascinating glimpse at life at the edge of the world.
BBC
Kevin Hall
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The Very Best
How Ash Ketchum Finally Became a Pokémon Master
A competitive Pokémon expert's serious critique of Ash Ketchum's career as a Pokémon trainer.
SB Nation
Jason Krell
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Further Reading
 
Collection of the Day
Home Cooking Mysteries, Solved
How to fix mushy rice, what to do with green potatoes, and how gluten actually works.
Pocket x Epicurious
Anna Hezel
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Yesterday's Most-Read Story
How to Finally Organize Your Kitchen Cabinets—For Good This Time
No more precarious stacks of plates.
Domino
Elly Leavitt
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