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Girl Scout Cookie Season is Coming With 3 New Flavors, TIME
Good news for those with a sweet tooth: Girl Scouts of the USA announced three new cookie flavors Monday, including two that are gluten-free. They are Toffee-tastic: a gluten-free butter cookie with toffee bits, Trios: a gluten-free cookie with peanut butter, chocolate chips, and whole grain oats, and Rah-Rah Raisins: an oatmeal raisin cookie with Greek yogurt–flavored chunks.
Anonymous Baller Leaves $2,000 Tip at Tacolicious, The Bold Italic
Remember Tips for Jesus? It’s the feel-good movement of leaving baller tips for servers and signing the check “Tips for Jesus.” It even has its own Instagram account to document these altruistic acts and a shroud of mystery regarding the tippers’ identities. According to SFGate, a recent drinker of the “Tips for Jesus” Kool-Aid left a $2,000 tip at Tacolicious on Valencia on January 2.
Scientists Agree Work Makes You Wake Up Too Early, Slate
You already know you should be getting seven to nine hours of shut-eye a night. But are you? Probably not. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 30 percent of employed U.S. adults clock less than that, and the results aren't pretty. Not only does lack of sleep hamper long-term productivity, it can ravage your skin and your sex drive. Fortunately, Mathias Basner of the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine might have a solution. After analyzing 124,517 American adults' sleep and work habits, as recorded in the American Time Use Surveys from 2003 to 2011, he and his colleagues determined all you need is to start your day later, or at least make the start time more flexible.
New App Lets You Take Back Embarrassing Texts, The Huffington Post
Sent a few too many embarrassing texts last night? There's an app for that. Strings, started by Be Labs in Seattle, gives you the ability to permanently delete a text message from your phone and any phone you sent it to. Additionally, Strings requires your friends to ask your permission before downloading any photos or videos you send them.
Thousands of Never-Before-Seen Pieces From the Smithsonian Galleries Are Now Available Online, The Washington Post
More than 40,000 images from the Smithsonian’s Freer and Sackler galleries — most of them never seen by the public in modern times — are newly available online, thanks to a massive digitization effort by the 91-year-old museum. There are paper fans. Elaborate woodblock prints. A pair of 3,000-year-old bronze tigers, which the museum’s chief digital officer calls her favorite objects in the museum. All told, there are 40,691 images from the Smithsonian’s Asian Art museums, most of them prints and ceramics.
