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The most commons signs that your cat is bored

5 Signs That Your Cat Is Bored

Cats are a fascinating species. They love to play and explore. However, most cats who live indoors do not get enough stimulation throughout the day and end up bored. This can cause issues from overeating to your cat doing their business outside of the litter box. 

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Where Is Your News Actually Coming From?

As with anything in life, knowledge is power. Yet increasingly, in today’s world of fake news and spambot Twitter trolls, knowledge itself can feel increasingly, infuriatingly subjective and malleable. I often find myself Googling any news story that doesn’t sound ‘quite right’, not to learn more, but to weigh its trustworthiness and see which reputable outlets have covered it. It’s a depressing calculus to repeat each day and feels bleaker still when you realize that most people don’t know who owns their news sources.

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Key Ways The American Educational System Has Changed

Generational divides come about for many reasons with technological changes being a big factor. Kids nowadays live lives that would have been quite literally unthinkable half a century ago. Cultural shifts play a role as well. However, less attention is paid to one of the biggest factors to shape people’s attitudes, opinions, and knowledge across the country: education.

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Meet A Wild Animal…And Live To Tell The Tale

The idea of coming across a wild animal is petrifying in the most basic sense of the word. Most people would freeze and turn to stone in their terror, unable to move or think of the right reaction. That’s why it pays to memorize a few strategies (which you’ll hopefully never need) but which could potentially spell out the difference between life and death.

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How To Be The King (Or Queen) Of Smoked Meats

Everything improves from being smoked–it’s a scientific fact. Smoking adds, well, smokiness to foods, but did you know that it does more than that? It tenderizes meat or fish, making it melt in your mouth, and it adds an incredible umami dimension to vegetables or even fruits. (If you haven’t tried a smoked tomato, you haven’t lived.) Of course, when it comes to meat, some work better in a smoker than others.

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The Mind-Blowing Truth Behind Texas’ Size

Everything is bigger in Texas, as the saying goes–including Texas itself. It’s a huge state full of empty rural plains and vast cities (with roads are so wide that they’re dangerous for pedestrians.) Yet many people struggle to get a true grasp of Texas’ massive size. That’s why it helps to compare it to other places around the world, including entire sovereign countries.

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