The Daily Populous

Friday December 22nd, 2017 night edition

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So I feel a peculiar and vigorous bond with the 7,500 people who, so mesmerized by the idea of buying a video game, sold their souls to the UK gaming retailer GameStation.

Well, please check your own soul compartment, just in case you might have inadvertently sold its contents while ordering up a new Xbox 360.

They do not want merely to steal your soul and make off with it into the digital night.

They want you to take stock of your spiritual situation and consider just how venal a human you have become.

In this case, the retailer not only offered a simple box to tick in order to opt out of the soul sale.

It even offered an incentive of a voucher worth five British pounds for merely paying attention to their legalese.

Or will some bright and spiritual spark at Goldman Sachs invent a new financial instrument: the Soul Default Swap?. »

The Hyperloop Industry Could Make Boring Old Trains and Planes Faster and Comfier

Authored by wired.com
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(The Tesla, SpaceX, and Boring Company CEO changed his mind this year, and is now working on his own system.).

And while the physics are sound, building and operating a functioning hyperloop is a harrowing task.

The good news is that, even if hyperloop never takes over, the engineering work going on now could produce tools and techniques to improve existing industries. »

93 Days Later, Puerto Rico Can’t Get Supplies to Turn on the Power

Authored by thedailybeast.com
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“In the meantime, we try to reuse whatever materials that can be found onsite which are rusty and unreliable.”.

The lineman is one of about 27,000 other workers who were brought in from the mainland to help restore the power grid.

“Puerto Rico is competing for supplies with Texas and Florida, whose electrical grids were similarly ravaged by hurricanes,” said Army Corps spokesman Luciano Riviera. »

Single father “prepared to take out a loan” after porch pirate stole 4-year-old son’s kidney medication

Authored by nbc15.com
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A little boy is without his life-saving medication after someone stole a package off a family's porch in Riverdale, Utah.

Cody Taylor said he’s had medication delivered to his door for years, and never had a problem until recently -- when their most expensive and arguably most important medication was stolen.

A company called “The Porch Locker” donated a lock box for Austin’s medication to be delivered to moving forward. »

The lower your social class, the ‘wiser’ you are, suggests new study

Authored by sciencemag.org

The lower your social class, the ‘wiser’ you are, suggests new study.

They found that people with the lowest social class scores—those with less income, less education, and more worries about money—scored about twice as high on the wise reasoning scale as those in the highest social class.

Eventually, Grossman wants to expand his study of wisdom to people at the extremes of social class. »