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Central Ohio snow emergencies for Monday, February 17

NBC4i.com 

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Lingering winter weather from the weekend has caused many central Ohio counties to remain under travel advisories on Monday. A Winter Weather Advisory remains in effect for Athens, Perry, and Morgan Counties until 7 a.m. On top of that, the southern fringe of the state remains under several flood alerts after [...]

I Just Learned How Digestives Got Their Name, And It Makes So Much Sense

Huffingtonpost.co.uk 

Where did Digestive biscuits get their name from?

While they’re not usually the most shouted about biscuits in the UK, according to a YouGov poll, Digestives are one of the top 5 most popular biscuits here! 

It shouldn’t be a surprise really since the original recipe which is still used (and mostly a secret) today was devised way back in 1892 according to McVities.

But, where did this name come from? It’s a plain name to describe plain biscuits but there has to be more to it, right? Читать дальше...

Totalitarians of Western Philosophy

Splice Today 

Ezra Klein can get a column out of a podcast episode + an insult. He does it all the time! So I figure I can too. My podcast Totalitarians of Western Philosophy is heady dank stuff, and it's dead on the news cycle, as right-wing authoritarianism is spreading around the world, threatening left-wing authoritarianism everywhere. It’s a time of choosing! Admittedly the choices suck.

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Wife Swap Insurance

Splice Today 

Just as Jaws initiated a string of rip-offs as soon as it was released in the summer of 1975, Adrian Lyne’s Fatal Attraction made a genre of its own in 1987. Spielberg made everyone look in the water for other things that killed: Alligator, Piranha, Gator (which has nothing to do with alligators, it’s a sequel to White Lightning and Burt Reynolds is named Gator); Lyne’s film resonated in a far more personal and perverse way, offering a pressure valve for a consumer society stifled by the necessary sexual caution spurred by the AIDS epidemic.

Zomato launches AI-backed customer support platform Nugget

Economictimes.indiatimes.com 

Zomato developed Nugget as an internal tool over the past three years, and it now supports over 15 million interactions per month on its platforms. This is the first product from Zomato Labs, the company's incubator for in-house innovations.

Singapore opposition leader fined for lying to parliament

Raw Story 

by Martin ABBUGAO

Singapore's opposition leader was fined on Monday for lying to parliament while helping a fellow party member cover up a false witness account, but narrowly avoided being barred from contesting upcoming national elections.

Pritam Singh, 48, secretary-general of the Workers' Party, was found guilty on two counts of lying to a parliamentary committee probing a fellow MP.

The conviction comes as the Southeast Asian nation's struggling political opposition is seeking... Читать дальше...

I'm A GI Surgeon ― Watch Out For these 5 Red Flag Signs On Probiotics

Huffingtonpost.co.uk 

A range of supplements

We’ve written before at HuffPost UK about how some experts think probiotic yoghurt drinks don’t pack the gut-boosting punch you’d expect. 

That’s partly because the acid in our stomach kills off a lot of the bacteria the products contain ― which don’t always appear in high enough numbers to make a difference to begin with.

Nor are the bacterial strains necessarily the right kinds. 

Still, eating prebiotic and probiotic foods is known to be great for our guts. Читать дальше...

The Ugliest Gorge

Splice Today 

A new film on Apple TV+ is called The Gorge, but it’s not because “Gorge” is short for “gorgeous.” Like too many streaming movies today, it looks like crap. As is becoming the standard, The Gorge has a couple of very good-looking people—Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy—as leads, but its visual style is so underlit and ugly that we can barely see their faces much of the time (and the less said about Taylor-Joy’s attempt at a Lithuanian accent, the better).

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A Critique of the Meta-Discourse of Social Interchange

Splice Today 

Around when “get in your face” became a phrase, we also started hearing “talk to the hand.” People with hard noses get in faces; therefore, people with soft noses look for protection. For instance, they’ll raise a palm and shelter behind it. The face-inserter can gabble at the thing but the thug will get nowhere. The aggressive jerk has been flunked for conversation and now must find the exit. But no, not really. Hide yourself and you’ve lost, and that includes hiding behind your hand. Jerky boy’s face will find a way around the thing... Читать дальше...