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7 Feb

Thanks to confirmation bias and powerful algorithms, social platforms often amplify the voices we agree with most. Over time, this creates echo chambers, which can deepen societal divisions to a dangerous degree.

Here’s how to break out of yours 1/ wired.trib.al/xxZNC22

“Like” everything.

Algorithms can’t categorize you if they can’t determine what you really like. Be generous and you’ll be rewarded with something beyond grateful friends who are glad you noticed their posts 2/

Actively cultivate prestige media on all sides.

To avoid trolls, follow prestige publications across the political spectrum. A profile searching for ‘The National Review’ and ‘The New Yorker’ means you’ll keep your newsfeed clear of the most polarizing stories 3/

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6 Feb

Don’t miss out on these Super Bowl weekend deals! Outside of Black Friday, this is the best time of year to buy TVs, audio equipment, and other electronics. wired.com/story/super-bo…

Our top pick, VIZIO's OLED 55" is easily the best TV you can get for a thousand dollars. bit.ly/2N2eWjv

If good and cheap is what you want, we recommend the Hisense H8 Quantuamm 55" TV. amzn.to/3pZy2VO

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4 Feb

The marvel of lo-fi hip-hop on YouTube is its partiality to minimalism, its desire for less. It’s music that works against excess—the excess of internet life and what it means to be alive in a world that only knows how to turn the volume up. 1/
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Here are some of the artists that can help you turn down the noise and add another frequency to your life:

Dion Lewis, the creator of Code Pioneers, has one of the most viewed lo-fi hip-hop videos on YouTube. 2/

While the seeds of the genre existed in scattered corners of YouTube for a time, lo-fi hip-hop began to formally bubble in 2016 and was made famous by channels like ChilledCow. 3/
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16 Jan

Spurred by the pandemic and protests against racial injustice, the United States now has an estimated 8.4 million more gun owners than it did at the start of 2020. As guns have risen in popularity, so too have tactical firearms courses 1/wired.trib.al/NBJ8VIB

Once the purview of law enforcement officers and military operators, tactical shooting skills are increasingly being passed down to ordinary, armed Americans by a sprawling and diffuse industry 2/ wired.trib.al/NBJ8VIB

Photographs by Jesse Rieser

Gun ranges and private facilities around the US are teaching the art of armed combat. At a Texas resort, you can engage in an exercise inspired by the Iraq War; at a facility in Florida, you can practice taking out a shooter at the Liberal Tears Café 3/ wired.trib.al/NBJ8VIB

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3 Jan

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Memory isn’t as set in stone as you might think. With the right technique, you can boost your recollection skills immensely.

Here are the five steps Nelson Dellis, a four-time USA Memory Champion, uses and the science of how they work 1/ (via @WiredUK) wired.trib.al/M8lPItR

Start With Strong Images
Turn whatever you're memorizing into images. Use pics that you can almost feel, smell, and see. You want to create big, multisensory memories.

Research has shown that the amygdala—a part of the brain that helps process emotion—encourages retention 2/

Create a “Memory Palace”
Place those images around your house. This is called the memory palace, and it’s particularly useful for remembering the order of certain elements. The technique helps to bring in more parts of the brain that are usually dedicated to other senses 3/

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30 Dec 20

This is the world’s longest freight train. It runs almost a mile long and consists of 200 freight cars. Photographer Adrian Guerin spent 26 hours in the Saharan desert on it. This is what he saw: 1/ wired.trib.al/IBSC1hB

Mauritania’s Train du Desert operates daily between Nouadhibou on the Atlantic coast and the iron ore mines in Zouerat—a journey of around 450 miles that takes about 13 hours each way. 2/

Its primary purpose is to transport ore from the mines, but from the beginning Mauritanians have hopped rides on freight cars to reach remote desert settlements. The empty cars create opportunities for locals to courier items from one part of the country to another. 3/

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