10/1/18 Newsletter: Best Island For Animal Lovers

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You can play with Australia’s fave animals at Kangaroo Island. Located right off Australia’s mainland, the island primarily offers sanctuary to kangaroos, sea lions, wallabies, koalas and even penguins. Basically, it’s an animal lover’s paradise.

The Deets: The island offers almost 2,000 square miles of beaches, sand dunes, bluffs and scrubby forests. You can spend hours searching for wildlife and then head back to civilization for locally-made wine and cheese. Feed kangaroos, cuddle koalas and play with penguins at Kangaroo Island Wildlife Park for just $15, and take a dip in the stunning turquoise waters while you’re there.

The Bottom Line: If you find yourself in Australia, take a trip to Kangaroo Island and explore. Between the animals, the incredible views and the beautiful terrain, you’re bound to have a good time. [Swirled]

Life Hack Of The Day: Sleep Edition

Having trouble sleeping? Rapidly open and close your eyelids for 60 seconds.

Health

If you’re not familiar with lucid dreaming, now’s your time to learn. The term refers to when you’re aware that you’re dreaming while you’re in the middle of a dream. You can learn how to lucid dream by practicing general awareness in your waking hours, meditating before bed and keeping a dream journal. [Swirled]

Did You Know? The best way to score your essential vitamins is to eat particular vegetables. For instance, if you’re looking to get more vitamin A, which helps you maintain good vision, healthy skin and an efficient metabolism, eat carrots, sweet potatoes and spinach. And if you want vitamin C, which helps make collagen and keep your skin and nails healthy, you can find it in citrus fruits and potatoes. [Swirled]

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Career + Finance

If your company uses Slack, you have a lot more than messaging at your fingertips. DiggBot, for example, is an app that can be added to Slack. It aggregates content from 10 million web feeds and more than 200 million tweets, and then the app’s human editors pick from the best content and put it into personalized algorithms for you. When you connect it to Slack, you can search certain keywords (or more broadly) by typing “/digg” and read up on what interests you. [Swirled]

Did You Know? Using a credit card’s cash back system could save you a ton of money. First, pay attention to your spending patterns and see where you’re putting your funds. Then, pick a card that fits your lifestyle. Some cards offer cash back on particular categories like gas, department stores and supermarkets, while others offer rotating schedules. [Swirled]

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Food + Drink

A bag of almonds is more versatile in the kitchen than you think. Add some crunchy texture to a salad or stir fry by roasting and chopping them, make your own milk by soaking almonds in water for a few days or grind them as a crust for your protein of choice. [Swirled]

Recipe Of The Day: Warm right up to a bubbling pot of butternut squash sauce. It’s full of roasted butternut squash, onion, garlic, honey, nut milk and spices like red pepper flakes, salt and pepper. You can toss pasta in the sauce, pour it over a roasted chicken or just eat it by the spoonful. (That’s what we’d do.) [Swirled]

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Travel

Who We’re Following: Every single one of Christina of Happy to Wander’s photos looks like a fairytale. The girl has the aesthetic down. But as many times as she hits up Paris, she also stops in underrated spots like Bulgaria — places that you might not consider a dream destination on your own. But you will after seeing a couple of her shots! [Happy to Wander]

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