| TECHNOLOGY |
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 French Inventor
Demonstrates Flyboard Above Champs-Élysées
Flyboards will soon be for rent on
every street corner in Paris. |
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Elon Musk Plans to Start
Implanting Chips in Brains
Allowing Us to Remotely
Control Computers
Or vice versa. |
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| MISCELLANEOUS |
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 1,000 Trees
Planted in Norway to Be Used to Print
Books 100 Years From Now
Assuming they can find an old printing press. |
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 Source: Queen Favors
Prince George, Singles Him Out for Gifts
Sends snippy notes to Princess Charlotte, calls
baby Archie “a nasty screamer.” |
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| LIFESTYLE |
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Number of Americans Who Say They're Not
Too Happy Doubled Between 1990 and 2018
Especially among those who were 50 in 1990 and 68 in 2018. |
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Finland's Basic Income
Experiment Shows Recipients
Happier, More Secure
Researchers will next probe whether increasing
basic income makes recipients even happier,
even more secure. |
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Study: Women No Longer
Considered Less Competent
Than Men
However, men still considered less
competent than women. |
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| TRENDS |
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Survey: We Prefer Emojis
To Phone Calls for Sharing
Our Feelings
And we prefer texting a marriage proposal to
proposing in person. |
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| ODDS 'N' ENDS |
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 French Debut
Anti-Flyboard Guns
They'll soon be for rent on every street corner
in Paris. |
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