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Tuesday, 31 May 2022

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New Study Shows the 50 Schools With the Most Toxic Air in America

Posted: 31 May 2022 02:20 AM PDT

Toxic air pollution can be detrimental to a child's development, yet many schools across the United States have high levels of toxic hazards in the air. Where do these toxic hazards come from? They mainly derive from the factories, plants, and other facilities that regularly emit air pollutants and are located close to schools.

Which U.S. schools have the most toxic air for their students to breathe?

This chart from AAA State of Play ranks the top 50 public schools in America that were found to have the most toxic air. These 50 schools were found by analyzing 'Air Toxics at School' data compiled by the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI); a data bank that includes every single school in the United States, from public schools to higher education buildings.

The national average toxic hazard concentration is 4,515; which means that all fifty schools on the list have a toxic hazard concentration level that is at least 100x the national average! The number one school on the list is in Verona, MO and has an unbelievably high toxic hazard concentration of nearly three million. That's 665 times the national average, and double the toxic hazard concentration of the second-place school.

AAA State of Play's in-depth analysis of PERI's data doesn't just stop at the 50 schools with the most toxic air though; they also analyzed the top 5 chemicals that were found to create the biggest toxic hazard at each school, as well as the most common toxic hazard found in schools in each state. One chemical toxic stands out as being the biggest air pollutant, and that is lead compounds. Lead compounds were found to be the most common toxic hazard in a majority of schools across the United States.

Did a public school from your city end up on the list of the 50 schools that were found to have the most toxic air?

Infographic showing data about the 50 Schools With the Most Toxic Air in America

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How hateful rhetoric connects to real-world violence

A new federal program goes local to accelerate regional innovation
Starting conversations on social and emotional learning with parents and teachers is critical for building family engagement
TechTank Podcast Episode 45: Deciphering the Metaverse

A new federal program goes local to accelerate regional innovation

Posted: 31 May 2022 11:43 AM PDT

By Mark Muro

One of the most compelling developments of the Biden presidency has been the emergence of significant programs and policies targeted at helping places (and their residents) thrive, rather than people more generally. Proposed across numerous realms, "place-based" programs such as the Economic Development Administration's Build Back Better Regional Challenge are encouraging bottom-up problem-solving in more and more places, even though the Senate blockage of the Build Back Better Act stymied multiple proposals last winter.

Now comes another impressive embrace of place-based policy—this one from the nation's top driver of scientific progress and innovation, the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Last month, the NSF's new, impact-oriented Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships announced that it would be providing select U.S. regions with up to $160 million over 10 years to strengthen their local innovation scenes, with a focus on regions that have not fully participated in the tech boom of the last few decades.

Branded the NSF Regional Innovation Engines program, the new initiative represents an especially serious effort to deploy place-based problem-solving against a major national challenge—in this case, lagging tech-oriented economic development and inclusive talent development in scores of locations that have been underserved for years.

What's striking is the program's urgency about improving the results of federal investment in innovation and entrepreneurship by leveraging the commercial synergies of local tech ecosystems more intentionally. Instead of just awarding millions of dollars in grants to support basic research in cloistered Research 1 universities, the NSF Regional Innovation Engines program seeks to produce "measurable societal impacts" and "tangible outcomes" by stimulating the latent innovation power of promising but underperforming local regions. That is, the NSF seeks to maximize the nation's innovation by accelerating the rise of regional ecosystems in new places.

The program is noteworthy for the way it targets one of the key virtues of place-based strategies: the ability of bottom-up local trust and information flows to maximize and optimize the connection of relevant actors and activities.

In that vein, the program bets on the power of place-based problem-solving by challenging regions to advance a specific game plan to better align loosely connected actors and activities into a cohesive network of partners. Likewise, the NSF's announcement stresses the importance for prospective regions to develop plans for enhancing that cohesion by cultivating a "culture of innovation" consisting of trust, diversity, risk-taking, and knowledge sharing. In other words, the NSF is betting on a growing body of literature—such as from Andrés Rodríguez-Pose and Marco Di Cataldo, Arnault Morisson, and Roberto Ezcurra—that sees place as a forum for improving the collaboration and governance that are crucial for improving innovation and inclusive growth.

In this regard, the NSF is pushing in the same important direction as the Economic Development Administration's Build Back Better Regional Challenge as well as its $500 million Good Jobs Challenge, which is aimed at strengthening local skills training systems in particular places, with an emphasis on underserved communities.

Together, these programs represent an important recognition that tackling broad systemic problems—such as the nation's stark economic divides—with smart action targeted on distinct places can deliver superior results. And the NSF Regional Innovation Engines program stands out as the latest in a series of compelling new federal initiatives that are testing the promise of place-based policy to address hard problems more robustly. By going local, the NSF is enlisting U.S. regions in working to grow the U.S. economy and train a diverse workforce for future high-wage jobs.

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Starting conversations on social and emotional learning with parents and teachers is critical for building family engagement

Posted: 31 May 2022 11:42 AM PDT

By Emily Markovich Morris, Rini D'Souza

"Build back bette r" and "build back equal" have become familiar slogans used to capture a global commitment to redressing educational inequities and system failures brought to center stage during the COVID-19 pandemic. These slogans are also a way for decisionmakers, educators, and communities to verbalize how and why our education systems are not adequately and inclusively serving all students and families. The Akanksha Foundation, a civil society organization based in Mumbai that works with government schools, is using "build back better" to create momentum for promoting the social and emotional learning (SEL) and well-being of students.

Akanksha is building this momentum through fostering intentional conversations between families and teachers on how to ensure that schools are not just preparing children academically, but also promoting SEL alongside civics education and work readiness skills development. In research conducted in collaboration with the Center for Universal Education (CUE) at Brookings, Akanksha discovered that parents and teachers have different beliefs and perceptions about the purpose of school. Rather than viewing these differences as a hurdle to building back better, Akanksha is using this as an opportunity to start critical dialogues on SEL and build synergy between schools and families.

The rationale for social and emotional learning

According to a study on multidimensional poverty—which measures health, education, and standard of living—roughly a quarter of Indians are living in multidimensional poverty. As in other parts of the world, the pandemic has increased food insecurity, lack of sufficient medical services, poverty, unemployment, and interruptions in school in India—all of which negatively impact students' well-being. Akanksha is using a building back better approach to acknowledge students' experiences with multidimensional poverty, and to bring communities together to address learning gaps and the social and emotional needs of children and their families.

Established in 1991 as a group of student volunteers, Akanksha is now a professional institution and network of over 700 educators, staff, and volunteers. They are on a mission to provide equitable and quality educational opportunities to over 10,000 marginalized children in 27 government K-10 schools in the cities of Mumbai, Pune, and Nagpur. Akanksha's teaching and learning approach focuses on the holistic physical and mental development of students and draws on Emory University's Social, Emotional and Ethical Learning curriculum. Akanksha is using this curriculum alongside teacher professional development activities, family engagement strategies, and systems change efforts to build a culture of well-being in schools.

The need for conversations between families and teachers

Holding international conversations with parents and teachers is a step toward building greater alignment and collaboration between families and schools on the importance of SEL. According to one teacher leader from a Mumbai school, "Children studying in our schools often come from households and communities where they experience trauma, be it physical or mental, regularly. SEL plays a key role here in giving them a platform to talk about and learn healthy mechanisms to cope with this trauma. Additionally, a healthy and balanced mind also strengthens their academic abilities." Integrating SEL with academic development is shown to foster educational success.

As a member of the Family Engagement in Education Network (FEEN), Akanksha knows that family engagement is critical to transforming education systems to better serve children, families, and educators. Started by CUE, the FEEN is a peer-learning network made up of over 50 member teams representing government jurisdictions, educator and parent associations, and civil society organizations from 12 countries around the world. In addition to being active in the FEEN, Akanksha has been using the Conversation Starter Tools to capture the perspectives of teachers, parents, and students on the purpose of education and their level of trust and alignment, along with other measures. They are using the findings to inform conversations between families and schools that lead to evidence-based strategies to increase family engagement. The tools include checklists for contextualizing the survey language and design, as well as guidance on how to analyze and use data to inform conversations. The tools are part of “Collaborating to transform and improve education systems: A playbook for family-school engagement” and are currently being revised and internationally validated in collaboration with the FEEN.

What families and teachers are saying

Between December 2021 and January 2022, Akanksha surveyed 323 parents and 109 educators (teachers, school leadership, counselors, and administrators) in government schools in Mumbai and Pune. The findings from these surveys showed that parents and teachers are on different pages when it comes to the purpose of school, and that greater trust and alignment are needed. Parents emphasized academic learning as the main purpose of school, whereas teachers prioritized SEL. Over half of teachers (54 percent) believed SEL was the main purpose of school compared to those who saw civics education (19 percent) and an economic purpose (20 percent)—or gaining work readiness skills—as the priority. Only a small percentage of teachers (7 percent) saw academics as the main purpose of education.

On the other hand, most parents (42 percent) believed that academic preparation was the main purpose of school, followed by civics education (21 percent) and SEL (21 percent). Less than a quarter (16 percent) saw the main purpose of school as economic. This trend held true for parents across gender and age of their child (kindergarten through secondary school). However, parents with lower education levels prioritized academics to a greater extent than parents with higher education levels. This is likely because academic and work skills are seen as increasing social mobility, especially among groups who are historically marginalized by class, caste, or urban or rural residence.

Teachers rightly perceived that parents prioritized academic preparation as one of the main purposes of education. However, parents believed that teachers also prioritized academics over other purposes, which was not the case. As one school leader in Mumbai stated, "Parents may not be aware of the school's role in children’s SEL development" in the same way they see schools as leading students' academic preparation. This perception gap is shown in Figure 1 below, where there is a notably larger difference in perceptions on academics and SEL as the main purpose of school.

Figure 1.

Utilizing data to further conversations and family engagement

Surveying parents and teachers is just the first step in understanding their values and beliefs on education and utilizing evidence to spark conversations. Akanksha will use their survey findings toward three key actions to increase family engagement and promote systems transformation in their partner schools.

Facilitate intentional conversations with parents and teachers to discuss different beliefs on education and why SEL is critical to teaching and learning. Akanksha holds conversation circles with parents every three months on an important educational topic and will build data and evidence from these surveys into their conversations. The conversations will help educators understand what parents know about SEL, and to listen to their concerns about the increased emphasis on SEL in teaching. Likewise, parents can listen to teachers on how and why SEL is important for their classrooms, experience examples of SEL, and discuss how teachers and parents can work together to promote SEL alongside academic, economic, and civic skills development.
Support teachers to integrate academics and SEL into their teaching through training and coaching. Although many teachers are excited about the increased focus on SEL in teaching and learning and are confident in how to integrate SEL into their teaching and classrooms, other teachers need time and support. Creating a supportive environment for teachers and a community of practice can encourage teachers to help each other in this process.
Ensure that school-level policies and decisions reflect principles and evidence on SEL, and that systemic changes involve parents and teachers. In addition to using SEL to inform teaching and learning and school-family collaborations, schools need to consider how their policies, such as school discipline, reflect principles of SEL and how schools support an ethos of well-being alongside academic, economic, and civics preparation. Akanskha is working with educators, leaders, parents, and students to build this common language on SEL.

In order to "build back bette r," parents and families must have spaces where they can discuss their different perspectives on education with teachers and school leaders. Data is critical to informing these conversations. Intentional and data-informed discussions can lead to greater trust, as well as meaningful collaboration. Akanksha is still trying to develop its approach for increasing family engagement, but these conversations are an important step to working more inclusively and intentionally with parents.

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TechTank Podcast Episode 45: Deciphering the Metaverse

Posted: 30 May 2022 06:25 AM PDT

By Darrell M. West

The Metaverse is an immersive environment that combines virtual and augmented realities and allows people to integrate their digital and physical spaces. There is a lot of hype surrounding this concept and not everyone uses the term in the same way, so it is important to determine what the Metaverse is and what issues it raises for consumers and businesses. Already, there are questions about privacy, security, virtual content moderation, the sale of virtual goods, and data ownership so unpacking this notion is critical.

To discuss these important questions, host Darrell West is joined by two distinguished experts. Tom Wheeler is a visiting fellow in Governance Studies at Brookings and author of a forthcoming book "Techlash". Katherine Cross is a Ph.D. student in the Information School at the University of Washington, where she writes about video games, social media, and online harassment.

You can listen to the episode and subscribe to the TechTank podcast on Apple, Spotify, or Acast.

TechTank is a biweekly podcast from The Brookings Institution exploring the most consequential technology issues of our time. From artificial intelligence and racial bias in algorithms, to Big Tech, the future of work, and the digital divide, TechTank takes abstract ideas and makes them accessible. Moderators Dr. Nicol Turner Lee and Darrell West speak with leading technology experts and policymakers to share new data, ideas, and policy solutions to address the challenges of our new digital world.

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How To Make A Planetarium

Posted: 31 May 2022 12:09 AM PDT

Planetariums are great places for seeing what they night sky looks like without having to have a powerful telescope. Create your own DIY planetarium from a few simple supplies and explore constellations found in the Milky Way galaxy. We love fun and easy space activities for kids! HOW TO MAKE A PLANETARIUM NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON’S …

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SEO Audit Tips to Close More Deals

Posted: 30 May 2022 07:50 PM PDT

In the SEO industry, it is common for businesses who are looking to acquire SEO services to request an audit of their website. I know from experience that SEO audits can make or break the deal. It shows potential partners the agency or freelancer's level of competency and expertise. It also allows potential partners to set expectations and KPIs.

As the CEO of SEO Hacker and the lead business developer of the company, I have done and sent hundreds of SEO audits to businesses. In this blog post, I'm willing to share some of my best kept secrets that may seem simple at first but have allowed me to close more deals for our team.

Note: This post was originally published on May 13, 2021, and was updated on May 31, 2022 to include new tips and data.

Customize your reports

There are a lot of lead generation tools for SEO that offer automated SEO audits for leads and we at SEO Hacker even use them ourselves.

I would say that those are only part of the process.

What matters more is the audit that you do when you are already in talks with your partners or during your sales pitch.

Important: SEO audits should be tailored to the client. There is no one-size-fits-all SEO audit because every website and business is unique. When tailoring an SEO audit, consider the client's business goals, target market, and budget.

I do two things to create a fully customized report:

Manually audit the website
Use a tool to automate the SEO audit

SEO audits should be tailored to the client quote card

Manually audit the website

Here are some tips that may help you out in picking out the details you would want to include in your audit:

Try to get everything out of their homepage and point out every opportunity for optimization there.
Pick out important pages with unoptimized title tags. You don't have to give them a full list. You just have to pick out those that could possibly be giving them more traffic and more sales.
Check their site structure and website indexability.
Critique their content. Many companies know that content is important in SEO but they don't necessarily know how to write SEO-friendly articles.
Use a backlink checker to analyze their backlinks. Link building is a hot topic for businesses looking for SEO services so if you can point out areas of improvement there you can get higher chances of closing the deal.
Show them screenshots and/or give a list of URLs you see that need to be optimized. Partners like to be very specific. Simply giving them a list of bullet points is not enough.

Use a tool to automate the SEO audit

Next, use a trustworthy tool to fill in the gaps of your manual audit.

In this case, let’s use Netpeak Spider.

Note: Some of the features I’ll be discussing are under the PRO subscription.

One of the many things I absolutely love about this tool is just how simple it is to use and how easy the results are to understand.

So for a quick SEO audit that’s going to help me or the Accounts Manager take a cursory look at our prospect’s website, Netpeak Spider really takes the cake.

I’ll stress that last part: Even if your Accounts Manager doesn’t have direct experience with SEO (but at least understands terminologies—I mean, they need to be able to explain to your partners and prospects how things work, right?), you can ask them to run the tool and interpret the results on their own.

It’s that easy to understand.

My podcast’s—Leadership Stack—website can do better in terms of traffic, so let’s audit the website for our use case.

Step-by-step guide to using Netpeak Spider for an SEO audit

Go to the Netpeak Software website and download the launcher.
Open Netpeak Spider from the launcher. What you see below is the tool’s interface when you open it.

Netpeak Spider interface

Go to Settings.

Settings

Choose which settings are appropriate for your audit. In my case, I connected the GA/GSC accounts among other things.

GA and GSC

Check your Parameters. They’re on the right side of the interface. Again, what you check is up to your needs and what you want to see in the report.

Netpeak Spider Parameters

Input the website’s URL on the Enter URL bar. It’s at the top of the interface.

Netpeak Spider URL bar

Press Start.
After a few minutes (it can be pretty quick depending on the size of your website), the results will be displayed on the interface.

Leadership Stack Netpeak Spider results

Time to export the results. You can opt to click the SEO Audit PDF button at the top right of the interface…

Or click Export and choose what parts of the audit you want to export.

Export reports

In this example, I decided to simply export the PDF. Here’s what the cover page of the report looks like:

Leadership Stack SEO audit results PDF

If you’re on the PRO subscription, you can opt to add your details such as your company website and email to the report.

Once you’re done collating your data, you can list what you see on a simple Word document with your logo as the header. Then convert it to a PDF file and send it to the client. Sounds simple enough but it does work.

Most of the time, you don't have to use flashy presentations. What you need is a clear, concise, and straight to the point website audit that is easy to digest for any potential client.

Further reading: An In-depth Crawl into Netpeak Spider

Show what you can do for them

Simply diagnosing the problems of a website and showing it to your potential client will not make the cut. They already know that their website has problems and it needs to be optimized. That's the reason why they're reaching out to you in the first place.

If they just wanted a simple audit using an SEO tool, they could have done it themselves (hence, the combination of manual and automated audits).

What partners are looking for in an SEO audit is how are you able to help them. You need to convince your potential partners that you are the SEO specialist for the job.

But before you add any solutions, you need to gauge your lead's level of SEO knowledge.

If your lead is completely new to SEO, then you need to provide more details as to why the factors you listed need to be optimized and how important they are for ranking. Let's say you're working on an e-commerce website and you recommended that title tags of the product categories need to be changed.

Why did you recommend changing those title tags? Why is it important to optimize the title tag of a product category page?

But for partners who are knowledgeable already with SEO, you may not need to discuss the importance of a product category page or of a title tag to them. But you still need to give your analysis on why their existing tags are not good.

You have to remember when businesses are shopping for SEO services, you are not the only one they are engaged with. They are most likely in talks with other service providers. What you are trying to do here is making them feel comfortable with you.

By crafting the right website audit, you can build trust, show your partners you're competent and capable, and that they could give the project to you with no second thoughts.

Further reading: Learn SEO: The Complete Guide for Beginners and Technical SEO: The Complete Guide for Advanced Users (with Checklist)

Add competitor analyses in your SEO audit

Adding a competitor analysis in your SEO audits for potential partners can be a game-changer. Most businesses will usually ask for an audit of their website alone but I highly recommend that you go the extra mile and do a quick or short audit of their competitors.

What you would want to do here is to compare some of the problems on their website versus their competitors’. Show them how they’re faring against their competitors.

You don't need a very detailed analysis. You can use Netpeak Spider on the competitors’ websites and just insert a few comments on your bullet points. Screenshots of data are also helpful especially on backlink data and rankings.

Don't reveal all your cards

I know that I just said you should show what you can do for them but that doesn't mean you completely reveal everything you'll be doing for them. There are two purposes for this:

First is that it keeps your leads on the edge of their seats.
Second is to protect you or your company.

Using the sample I used earlier, let's say you listed down the product category pages of your potential client and told them that their title tags are not good. You say why they are not good but you don't have to say what you would replace them with.

What you're trying to do here is keeping potential partners engaged and interested. On the business side of things, you're trying to avoid giving potential partners free work.

Key takeaway

SEO audits are only one part of the overall sales process but they are a crucial part of it. It gives your potential partners a little sneak peak on what you can do for them after putting ink on the contract. It helps set expectations and KPIs. It can be the difference between them choosing you or a different company.

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The MozCon 2022 Final Agenda Is Here!

Posted: 31 May 2022 12:00 PM PDT

We've been hinting at the lineup of talks with our Initial Agenda drop in April and our Community Speaker reveal and but today, we're ready to share the full and complete Final Agenda. With the schedule set and our speakers putting the final polish on their presentations, here's a look at the three action-packed days we have planned.

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And You Thought Your Neighbors Were Bad — 50 Unhinged “Nextdoor” App Posts
Twitter Users Are Sharing Stories About The Worst Car They’ve Owned (19 Tweets)
Seems Like We’re Headed For A Really Boring Dystopia (21 Pics)
Restaurant Servers Are Shaming Rude Customers For Their Bad Tips (17 Pics)
35 Times Someone On Tumblr Left A Perfect Comment
Morning Funny Pic Dump (25 Pics)
People Are Sharing The Most Out Of Touch Things They’ve Heard Someone Say (30 Pics)
35 Old-Fashioned Things That Will Trigger Some Nostalgia
Ope! Just Gonna Sneak By Ya And Share These Shower Thoughts About The Midwest (17 Pics)
Guy Air Fried A “Mexican Pizza” From Taco Bell For Two Hours, You Know, For Science (30 Tweets)

And You Thought Your Neighbors Were Bad — 50 Unhinged “Nextdoor” App Posts

Posted: 31 May 2022 11:24 AM PDT

“When neighbors start talking, good things happen.” That’s the official slogan of Nextdoor, the neighborhood-specific social network that allows you to communicate with the people who live around you. The idea behind Nextdoor is that people can use it to post garage sale times, lost pet information, or request household items their neighbors no longer […]

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Twitter Users Are Sharing Stories About The Worst Car They’ve Owned (19 Tweets)

Posted: 31 May 2022 07:52 AM PDT

I bought my 2006 Honda Civic for $300 and it’s still kickin’, but the bumper won’t stay on, and the interior is in pretty bad shape. Luckily, it’s not as bad as some of the cars people are tweeting about. Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon asked fans to share their funny stories about the worst […]

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Seems Like We’re Headed For A Really Boring Dystopia (21 Pics)

Posted: 31 May 2022 07:23 AM PDT

To say these are strange times is a massive understatement. We are living through a time of great change. Whether it will be for the better or worse is yet to be determined. If things don’t start to change, I fear we may be in for a boring dystopia. Not even a fun one with […]

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Restaurant Servers Are Shaming Rude Customers For Their Bad Tips (17 Pics)

Posted: 31 May 2022 06:32 AM PDT

Waiting tables can be a rewarding job, but it can also be frustrating at times. I know people who make a great living as a server, and the worst part is not always knowing how much you’ll make because there are good tippers and bad tippers. Typically the good tippers will make up for the […]

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35 Times Someone On Tumblr Left A Perfect Comment

Posted: 31 May 2022 05:43 AM PDT

I come to Tumblr for the weirdness. Twitter is so serious now. The comments on Tumblr are often even weirder than the post itself. Here are 35 of the best and funniest comments I’ve found on Tumblr over the years. Enjoy. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. […]

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Morning Funny Pic Dump (25 Pics)

Posted: 31 May 2022 05:03 AM PDT

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People Are Sharing The Most Out Of Touch Things They’ve Heard Someone Say (30 Pics)

Posted: 30 May 2022 09:47 AM PDT

These days, it’s not hard to find someone who just doesn’t seem to understand what world we’re living in. It can be frustrating to communicate with someone so out of touch with reality. People are sharing examples of this in an AskRediit thread and it’s eye-opening. What is the most severe case of someone being […]

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35 Old-Fashioned Things That Will Trigger Some Nostalgia

Posted: 30 May 2022 09:21 AM PDT

Who doesn’t love some nostalgia? Looking back on the carefree days of your youth when all you had to worry about was having fun. Remember Limewire? How about CD booklets? These pics of obsolete things will remind you just how cool it was to be a kid, but also remind you how different the world […]

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Ope! Just Gonna Sneak By Ya And Share These Shower Thoughts About The Midwest (17 Pics)

Posted: 30 May 2022 09:19 AM PDT

I grew up in the midwest, and it’s not as boring as people from the coasts think. We’ve got everything you could ever ask for, plus ranch dressing. These shower thoughts about the Midwest will give you some more to think about the next time you find yourself pondering the fly-over states. 1. 2. 3. […]

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Guy Air Fried A “Mexican Pizza” From Taco Bell For Two Hours, You Know, For Science (30 Tweets)

Posted: 30 May 2022 07:52 AM PDT

Taco Bell has officially started selling the Mexican Pizza again, and self-proclaimed food scientist Kendrick Lobster took it upon himself to see what happens when you air-fry it for two hours. You may remember past experiments he’s conducted, like when he air-fried a hot dog for two hours, but he really stepped it up this […]

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