Hitchhiking robot destroyed in Philadelphia, ending cross-country trek

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/08/03/hitchhiking-robot-destroyed-philadelphia-ending-cross-country-trek/31051589/

Treasure hunter found 3 tonnes of sunken gold, and can't leave jail until he says where it is

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/87602539/treasure-hunter-found-3-tonnes-of-sunken-gold-and-cant-leave-jail-until-he-says-where-it-is

[WP] Eminem has to tell the history of the earth to a group of aliens in 5 minuets or less.

https://np.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/5fqwjc/wp_eminem_has_to_tell_the_history_of_the_earth_to/damfdh6/

minuet (noun) - a slow, stately ballroom dance for two in triple time, popular especially in the 18th century.

Designing for People Who Have Better Things To Do With Their Lives

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/chapters/fog0000000062.html

A mother killed her 2 young children so that husband couldn't have custody in divorce

https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/5er4he/court_docs_mom_killed_her_2_young_children_so/

Most Students Don’t Know When News Is Fake, Stanford Study Finds

http://www.wsj.com/articles/most-students-dont-know-when-news-is-fake-stanford-study-finds-1479752576

How I Lost Faith in the “Pro-Life” Movement

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/lovejoyfeminism/2012/10/how-i-lost-faith-in-the-pro-life-movement.html

Chinese gang kidnaps and cripples children, forces them to beg on streets of Malaysia

http://shanghaiist.com/2016/10/21/malaysia_begging.php

This Parody Site Is so Obvious Nobody Should Fall for It — but They Do, Anyway

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/right-wing-parody-site-so-obvious-idiots-couldnt-fall-it-conservatives-do-anyway

Parody and Satire don't really work well online. No matter how outrageous a statement is, someone will believe it.

Straight Girls Do Kiss on Campus, but What About Those Who Don't Go to College?

http://www.alternet.org/sex-amp-relationships/straight-girls-do-kiss-campus-what-about-those-who-dont-go-college

How much information should a player have in a game?

https://www.reddit.com/r/truegaming/comments/592u3r/dragon_quest_and_mechanical_transparency/d95dc03/

Here’s What Nobody Understands About Race in America

http://www.alternet.org/economy/heres-what-nobody-understands-about-race-america

[WP] Killing a person raises your life span by 20 years, but it comes with a cost.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/59243z/wp_killing_a_person_raises_your_life_span_by_20/d954823/

The Clinton Folly

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/5cah7s/dnc_staffer_screams_at_donna_brazile_for_helping/d9veaz7/

The Transformative Power Of Sexting

http://www.alternet.org/sex-amp-relationships/transformative-power-sexting

President Trump: How & Why...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLG9g7BcjKs

Trump's Toxic Campaign Reached into My Own Family, and Made Me Block My Own Uncle on Facebook

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/donald-trump-divides-families

This is where the real divide is, and where the real threat is. When people can't even agree on whether or not a problem exists, there's no way they could agree on how to solve it.

Secrets

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/t0ynr/throwaway_time_whats_your_secret_that_could/c4kp11w/

Aesthetic IS Narrative

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR7yWdimmC4

The Fundamental Flaw of Capitalism:

TL;DR: The engine of capitalism uses the wealth of workers as fuel. This will run out if no interventions exist to replenish it.

It is a general rule: If you work for someone else, you are generating more value than you are being paid.

If you didn't generate more value than you were paid, there would be no point in hiring you. This means that the total spending of the worker base, is greater than the total income received by workers, because a portion of that spent money, goes to the owners as profits to the business; wealth moves up.

The flow of wealth from the bottom to the top, is a fundamental part of capitalism, and a major part of how it functions. Without it, businesses couldn't be profitable, and for the economy to grow, businesses need profits.

There's a problem: If left alone, the entire system will slowly grind to a halt as it drains every last bit of wealth from the bottom, until there's nothing left.

Keeping the system running at full speed, and keeping the economy growing, requires the wealth at the bottom to not run out. In the past this has been done through constant expansion. Gaining new lands and resources for the workers to harvest and the owners to profit from. Nowadays though, we've already taken over so much of the world's land, there just isn't much room for expansion left. We are hitting the limits of land wealth available to us.

The fundamental flaw of capitalism, is that it relies upon the movement of wealth from the bottom to the top, but contains no built in system for that wealth to be replenished. To keep things running, it is important to create a system for transferring wealth back down, so it can move back up and keep the engine running.

Police arrest more people for marijuana use than for all violent crimes combined

http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2016/10/police_arrest_more_people_for.html

Why Does Our Society Celebrate Sociopathic, Narcissistic and Toxic Masculine Traits?

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/donald-trump-gives-america-good-look-mirror

I Endured Years of Rape and Abuse by My Stepfather; My Amazing Experience with Ayahuasca Deeply Helped Me Deal with the Trauma

http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/i-endured-years-rape-and-abuse-my-stepfather-my-amazing-experience-ayahuasca-deeply

The ugly side of America:

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/are-women-people

The problem with modern science research

https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/54gv8e/academia_is_sacrificing_its_scientific_integrity/d81u3mx

Sex and sexuality: The Jane Austen game breaking the MMO rules

https://www.engadget.com/2016/09/14/ever-jane-austen-mmo-rpg-regency/

Regarding the pesticide they spray there. Naled is an organophosphate that is banned in Europe

https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/518zxg/us_beekeepers_fear_for_livelihoods_as_antizika/d7adbd7

Why Don’t We Have Pay Toilets in America?

https://psmag.com/why-don-t-we-have-pay-toilets-in-america-26efede62d6b#.lc53pwuqy

Ghostbusting Finally Got Me to Believe in the Power of VR

http://www.wired.com/2016/09/ghostbusters-physical-vr/

VR will let jurors explore crime scenes as they actually appeared

http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/vr-crime-scene-robot/

Hospitals Try Giving Patients a Dose of VR

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-29/hospitals-try-giving-patients-a-dose-of-vr

You Are Two

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfYbgdo8e-8

[WP] You are so good at CPR you manage to revive anyone, a miracle, but people start calling you a necromancer

https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/4zd2v6/wp_you_are_so_good_at_cpr_you_manage_to_revive/d6v1ra4

[WP]All humans are made sterile at birth and can gain fertility at 18 if they pass a simulated morality and IQ test administered by an AI. Suddenly several generations later no one can pass the test

https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/4yygot/wpall_humans_are_made_sterile_at_birth_and_can/d6rkpri

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-Americans-girls-disconnect-the-chat-immediately-if-I-tell-them-that-Im-an-Indian-What-is-their-perception-about-Indian-guys

"As a victim, you think it's over when your assailant has been caught/arrested, but I was naive and found out the hard way that that isn't true."

https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/4ys0kw/you_have_not_done_anything_but_ruin_her_prison/d6q3p57

"Turn Your Brain Off"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHYmFJv_obY

Zone for Game

http://www.bldgblog.com/2016/08/zone-for-game/

Ibn al-Haytham: The Muslim Scientist Who Birthed the Scientific Method

http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2014/03/the_muslim_scientist_who_birthed_the_scientific_method.html

Meet Balmuda, the $230 Toaster From Japan

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-03/meet-balmuda-the-230-toaster-from-japan

WTF Is the Deal With Driverless Car Guru George Hotz's Comma Points?

https://www.inverse.com/article/17952-comma-ai-george-hotz-comma-points-driverless-cars-autonomous-vehicles

Donald Trump’s Ghostwriter Tells All

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all

Some Little Known Reasons Why France Is on the Frontline of the War With the Islamic State

http://www.alternet.org/world/some-little-known-reasons-why-france-frontline-war-islamic-state

The Virginia scheme that suspends the driver’s license of anyone who can’t pay trivial fines.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2016/07/the_virginia_driver_s_license_scheme_that_punishes_poor_people.html

You're an ordinary cop, trying to get fired, but everything you do leads to a: "You're a loose cannon, but by god you're a good detective"

https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/4swenr/youre_an_ordinary_cop_trying_to_get_fired_but/d5ctid8

Why no aquarium has a great white shark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMbHLF_zwjs

Professor Poses the One Perfect Question About Race That Stumps Her Audience

http://www.alternet.org/video/professor-poses-one-perfect-question-about-race-stumps-her-audience

Black Parks and Recs Director Stopped by Police for Reading Book Outside

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/black-parks-and-rec-director-stopped-police-reading

Michael Bay - What is Bayhem?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2THVvshvq0Q

This Little Fish Made of Iron Could Wipe Out Anemia Around the World

http://www.alternet.org/world/little-fish-made-iron-could-wipe-out-anemia-around-world

When Your PTSD Is Triggered by Fireworks...Every Fourth of July

http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/discovering-traumatic-roots-my-phobia-fireworks

N.J. Forces Mom to Pay Son's Student Loans: Murder 'Does Not Meet Threshold for Loan Forgiveness'

http://www.alternet.org/economy/nj-forces-mom-pay-sons-student-loans-murder-does-not-meet-threshold-loan-forgiveness

A little parenting story

https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/4qmufo/my_kids_dont_beg_for_toys_and_i_realized_its/d4u9fzy

20-Something, With Menopause

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/26/opinion/sunday/20-something-with-menopause.html?_r=0

Alarming Trends I've Noticed Teaching Yoga to Little Kids

http://www.alternet.org/education/alarming-trends-ive-noticed-teaching-yoga-elementary-school-kids

The real reason Bernie Sanders's favorite primary candidate aims to outst the head of the DNC

http://www.dailydot.com/politics/tim-canova-interview-tpp-trade-policy-clinton-sanders-trump/

This Guy Explains Perfectly Why Brock Turner's Drinking-Made-Me-Do-It Rape Defense Is So Wrong

http://www.alternet.org/gender/guy-explains-perfectly-why-brock-turners-drinking-made-me-do-it-rape-defense-so-wrong

Everything you think you know about AI is wrong

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/06/02/everything-you-think-you-know-about-ai-is-wrong/

Can We Make A Computer Make Art?

http://www.popsci.com/can-computer-make-art

An Enemy Until You Need A Friend: The Role of "Big Government" in American History

http://origins.osu.edu/article/enemy-until-you-need-friend-role-big-government-american-history

[WP] A young child summons a demon, but they only want a friend.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/4k0m79/wp_a_young_child_summons_a_demon_but_they_only/d3b7y4l

[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/4j4mt2/wp_a_peaceful_alien_race_is_besieged_by_another/d340ea0

The Blue Bolt and Professor Geroth

https://www.reddit.com/r/Luna_Lovewell/comments/4iw8bc/the_blue_bolt_and_professor_geroth/

Canada & The United States (Bizarre Borders Part 2)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMkYlIA7mgw

The Categories Were Made For Man, Not Man For The Categories

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-made-for-man-not-man-for-the-categories/

How An Algorithm Feels From Inside

http://lesswrong.com/lw/no/how_an_algorithm_feels_from_inside/

[WP] It's cute when your kid sends Santa a letter. It's surprising when Santa sends a letter back. It's worrying when the two become regular pen pals. And it's horrifying when you start reading the letters yourself...

https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/4i686g/wp_its_cute_when_your_kid_sends_santa_a_letter/d2voff3

A Robot Teaching Assistant

http://www.wsj.com/articles/if-your-teacher-sounds-like-a-robot-you-might-be-on-to-something-1462546621

Why are black Americans voting for Hillary Clinton instead of Bernie Sanders?

https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/48kyzj/why_are_black_americans_voting_for_hillary/d0kv5pf

The Crowd Went Wild For Hatsune Miku, The Virtual Anime Pop Star

http://kotaku.com/the-crowd-went-wild-for-hatsune-miku-the-virtual-anime-1773633946

When watching The Disappearing of Hatsune Miku,  I found myself thinking about the future of AI. One possible future, is that AI's remain merely powerful tools due to a lack of reason to ever make them something more. This could result in a world run by robots designed to keep it all running smoothly and efficiently, with no real minds of their own. A world where only a small fraction of the population has the drive and ability to understand and alter the AIs, and the vast majority of the population remains content enough that the status quo never gets challenged.

If those who do alter the AIs are selfish and short sighted, the system would slowly degrade and fall apart. If they coordinate their efforts, and share a mono-culture (indoctrinating newcomers), they could create a stable and stagnant world in which they wield unchallenged power. If they remain diverse in ideas and priorities, only then will great progress continue to be made, as they recklessly drive their ambitions in different directions.

Not All Practice Makes Perfect

http://nautil.us/issue/35/boundaries/not-all-practice-makes-perfect

Magic is Hereditary, but the child's powers is the sum of his parents. Fire Witch + Sand Wizard= Glass magic [WP]

https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/4gvu9w/magic_is_hereditary_but_the_childs_powers_is_the/

How a failed Kickstarter sparked EVE Online’s second largest battle ever

http://www.pcgamer.com/how-a-failed-kickstarter-sparked-eve-onlines-second-largest-battle-ever/

I often find it amazing just how big EVE Online is. Alliances that contain thousands of players fighting over territory and pride.

Inverted totalitarianism

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism

Protests alone, don't work. They must be backed up by something more.

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/4eu8lc/why_is_no_one_reporting_on_the_protest_in/d23sxsj

Dwarf Fortress' creator on how he's 42% towards simulating existence

http://www.pcgamer.com/dwarf-fortress-creator-on-how-hes-42-towards-simulating-existence/

[WP] No one in the galaxy ever assumed that Earth would amount to anything because of its extreme gravity for a life-bearing world - anything trying to escape the planet's gravity well would need to BE 97% fuel weight, and the idea that they would try was a ludicrous concept.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/4crsbs/wp_no_one_in_the_galaxy_ever_assumed_that_earth/d1kyl31

Barack Obama Never Said Money Wasn’t Corrupting; In Fact, He Said the Opposite

https://theintercept.com/2016/04/15/barack-obama-never-said-money-wasnt-corrupting-in-fact-he-said-the-opposite/

Hillary Clinton helped suppress Haiti's minimum wage.

http://www.snopes.com/hillary-clinton-suppressed-haitis-minimum-wage/

"the State Department (then led by Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State) strongly opposed a minimum wage increase in Haiti in 2009." 

...

"It was a concerted effort on the part of Haitian elites, factory owners, free trade proponents, U.S. politicians, economists, and American companies that kept the minimum wage so low"

[WP] For years Earth cried out to an empty cosmos, searching the stars for echoes of life. From the middle of nowhere, a reply finally comes: "Shut up, and Play Dead!"

https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/4c57ai/wp_for_years_earth_cried_out_to_an_empty_cosmos/d1fiuff

What Comes After Religion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL--1Z_g4DE

Reddit on Depression

https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/4bt34j/i_told_the_truth_in_my_sisters_obituary_so_that/

There's a lot of posts in here that I think are worth reading, so I'm linking the entire reddit thread, instead of just picking out a post or two.

[WP] There are a finite number of human souls. As the population grows, something else is filling the bodies.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/4bphh9/wp_there_are_a_finite_number_of_human_souls_as/

Aesthetics of Play - Redefining Genres in Gaming - Extra Credits

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uepAJ-rqJKA

February Didn't Just Break Climate Change Records – It Totally Obliterated Them

http://www.alternet.org/environment/february-didnt-just-break-climate-change-records-it-totally-obliterated-them

Students Participate in One of the First Human Feeding Trials of Genetically Engineered Bananas

http://www.alternet.org/food/students-participate-one-first-human-feeding-trials-genetically-engineered-bananas

A Video Game's Unexpectedly Realistic Take On Getting Rejected

http://kotaku.com/a-video-games-unexpectedly-realistic-take-on-getting-re-1763300489

A City Shaped by Steam | Living City | The New York Times

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAB1gesb8cQ

[wp] after dying god informs you that hell is a myth, and "everyone sins, its ok". instead the dead are sorted into six "houses of heaven" based on the sins they chose.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/48fxir/wp_after_dying_god_informs_you_that_hell_is_a/d0jc3zo

[WP] A Superhero that needs batteries in his pocket to use his powers, and what happens when they run out.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/4887kl/wp_a_superhero_that_needs_batteries_in_his_pocket/d0hp6wj

The NSA’s SKYNET program may be killing thousands of innocent people

http://arstechnica.co.uk/security/2016/02/the-nsas-skynet-program-may-be-killing-thousands-of-innocent-people/

America's Contribution to Death of Honduran Activist Goes Unmentioned in U.S. Coverage

http://www.alternet.org/media/americas-contribution-death-honduran-activist-goes-unmentioned-us-coverage

How the Women-Led 'Bread Boycotts' Changed 20th Century Food Pricing

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-the-womenled-bread-boycotts-changed-20th-century-food-pricing

Why Trump is Winning

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/48xhv9/trump_supporters_are_inoculated_against_the_truth/d0nijsl

The NYPD Is Kicking People Out of Their Homes, Even If They Haven’t Committed a Crime

https://www.propublica.org/article/nypd-nuisance-abatement-evictions

[WP] A duel between two Wizards. Except they are not Archmages but apprentices who can barely cast spells.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/4400sc/wp_a_duel_between_two_wizards_except_they_are_not/czmcuff

Edgar Allan Poe Had a Time Machine and I Can Prove It

http://historybuff.com/edgar-allan-poe-had-a-time-machine-and-i-can-prove-it-K0GoDJzODRy6

The Political Apathy of Gen X

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/4712zm/the_question_is_not_why_younger_voters_are/d09pmas

The Stanford professor who pioneered praising kids for effort says we’ve totally missed the point

http://qz.com/587811/stanford-professor-who-pioneered-praising-effort-sees-false-praise-everywhere/

Being poor changes your thinking about everything

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/09/13/being-poor-changes-your-thinking-about-everything/

Vitamin E and Vitamin C supplements can help reduce the harmful effects of lead poisoning

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/45zslh/bernie_sanders_meets_with_residents_of_flint/d01j1xm

Why did the prostitutes in GTA V caused so much controversy?

https://www.reddit.com/r/truegaming/comments/3zqd48/saints_row_iii_and_its_treatment_of_sex_slaves/cyp1vep

What I think is a very good (though long winded) explanation of why the prostitutes, in GTA 3 and after, are a problem.

Why too much evidence can be a bad thing

http://phys.org/news/2016-01-evidence-bad.html

Dear Washington Post

http://with-one-you-loved-so-long-ago.tumblr.com/post/138800227304/dear-washington-post

https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/3zl3b5/food_stamps_kept_nearly_5_million_people_out_of/cyn5h6b

Top U.S. General Ignored Obama, Led Secret Plot to Protect Assad and Bring Russia Into Syrian War

http://www.alternet.org/investigations/sy-hersh-blockbuster-top-us-general-ignored-obama-led-secret-plot-protect-assad-and

[WP] You and some friends play the "wake up, you're in a dream" prank on random stranger. They reply, "Thanks!" and disappear.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/3xd4ul/wp_you_and_some_friends_play_the_wake_up_youre_in/cy3palo

The Market as God

http://www.theatlantic.com/past/issues/99mar/marketgod.htm

The heroic professor who helped uncover the Flint lead water crisis​ has been asked to fix it

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2016/01/26/meet-the-heroic-professor-who-helped-uncover-the-flint-lead-water-crisis/

What's really interesting about this David Brock guy

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/42337o/sanders_doesnt_need_lectures_on_civil_rights_and/cz7m3x2

The First Person to Hack the iPhone Built a Self-Driving Car. In His Garage

http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-george-hotz-self-driving-car/

What exactly is happening when a developer releases an Early Access game and then fails to follow through?

https://www.reddit.com/r/truegaming/comments/3u57rp/what_exactly_is_happening_when_a_developer/cxcg4ut

Teaching philosophy to children? It's a great idea

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/21/teaching-philosophy-to-children-its-a-great-idea

After raising record $3.4M on Kickstarter, UK drone startup collapses

http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/11/after-raising-record-3-4m-on-kickstarter-uk-drone-startup-collapses/

A lot of people underestimate how hard it is to run a business.

ELI5: Why, nearly everyday, is there a post on the front page detailing a groundbreaking medical discovery (i.e scientists discover how to stunt growth of cancer cells), but then I never hear about it elsewhere?

https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/3tb9gl/eli5_why_nearly_everyday_is_there_a_post_on_the/cx4rcvk

Who he wanted to be

http://imgur.com/gallery/FQ8Q2Cw

I was locked up because I went to a Texas national park without my papers

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/dec/23/locked-up-went-texas-national-park-without-papers

The cost of war

https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/3sg1ri/with_22_veterans_taking_their_life_every_day/cwx4n7e

[WP] The god of nightmares has fallen in love with you and tries to confess through terrifying dreams.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/3s12y9/wp_the_god_of_nightmares_has_fallen_in_love_with/cwt734i