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This week on What We Learned This Week: Trees keep us alive, clogs keep us comfy and the weekend keeps us trapped.

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OF A PROBLEMATIC NATURE WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK The Trees Are Dying And We'll Die Next, And Other Facts digg.com Welcome to What We Learned This Week, a digest of the most important facts from the past few days. This week: Trees keep us alive, clogs keep us comfy and the weekend keeps us trapped. BOOM GOES THE, UH, BOOM Boy Genius Boyan Slat's Giant Ocean Cleanup Machine Is Real fastcompany.com A system of trash-collecting booms will launch in 2018, and — the 22-year-old inventor claims — will collect half the plastic trash in the Pacific Garbage Patch in five years. SKIP TO 3:45 FOR THE GOOD STUFF WATCH: Police Helicopter Calmly Informs Swimmers They're Next To 'Approximately 15 Great White Sharks' digg.com Yesterday, the Orange County Sheriff's Department harshed the mellow of a group of paddle borders when they instructed them to "exit the water in a calm manner" due to their proximity to "approximately 15 Great White sharks." BREWING WE DIGG | SPONSORED The Easiest Way To Craft Beer At Home kickstarter.com PicoBrew is an at-home beer brewing system that lets you make craft beer from breweries around the world in a just couple of hours. The new Pico Model C is their most affordable system yet, and the PicoStill add-on lets you distill hop oils, essential oils and water. There are only three days left on the Kickstarter campaign, so hop to it. SYSTEMS FAILURE STOP ALL THE DOWNLOADIN' The Body Is Not A Computer — Stop Thinking Of It As One gizmodo.com It cannot be hacked, rewired, engineered or upgraded like one, and certainly not at the ruthless pace of a Silicon Valley startup. FORGETTING THE MOTHER The Last Person You'd Expect To Die In Childbirth propublica.org The US has the worst rate of maternal deaths in the developed world, and 60 percent are preventable. The death of Lauren Bloomstein, a neonatal nurse, in the hospital where she worked illustrates a profound disparity: the health care system focuses on babies but often ignores their mothers. THREE MEN AND A LADY Is An Open Marriage A Happier Marriage? nytimes.com What the experiences of nonmonogamous couples can tell us about jealousy, love, desire and trust. PRICE GOUGING TOO CLOSE TO THE SUN How One Little Cable Company Exposed Telecom's Achilles' Heel backchannel.com Forget net neutrality — the real fight is over controlling price-gouging monopolies. VIDEO OF THE DAY A DIGG ORIGINAL Pleasure, Pain And Food In 'Master Of None' digg.com In Aziz Ansari's 'Master Of None,' food has a way of conveying both the high and low points of life. From stolen nachos to the perfect banana split — food is always there, in the good times and the bad. IN THE NEWS Trump Tweets Threat To Comey Over Leaks, And Other Trump News From Today Trump Appears To Tell NBC That He Fired James Comey To Shut Down Russia Investigation In Leaked Call, Fyre Fest's Founder Tells Employees They're Not Getting Paid For Their Work The New Yorker Trolls The Trump Administration (And United Airlines) With Its Comey Cover STYLE WE DIGG | SPONSORED Stylish Tees That Are Engineered For Durability theprojectgarments.com The Project Garments designs clothes that you'll keep with you for the long haul. Made with the finest organic cotton in the U.S., their tees are treated with garment dyeing and washing processes, so they look and feel exactly how you like it from the get go. Here's to a weekend full of good times and bucatini. View the Edition at Digg.com »

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