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July 5, 2019
Fancy Fancy
from The Guardian ‘I don’t see jeans in my future’: the people who wear complete historical dress – every day From the man who wears 17th-century clothes to the woman whose outfits are straight out of the 1950s, six people explain their deep devotion to period dress by Ammar Kalia </p> It is a bold and […]
July 4, 2019
Explosive Times
from Oregon Live It’s not your imagination: Americans are shooting off more fireworks than ever By The Conversation In the eyes of many Americans, the Fourth of July is a day for parades, barbecues and, of course, fireworks. The tradition got its start at the beginning of our nation’s history after the Founding Fathers met […]
July 3, 2019
Tortillapocalypse
from Food and Wine Taco Bell Confirms ‘Tortillapocalypse’ Is Real, Recommends Gorditas Instead Many locations around the country are running out of tortillas used for burritos and quesadillas. By Mike Pomranz Taco Bell has mastered the art of stretching their menu by creating new items out of existing components. A “Double Decker Taco” is just a hard taco wrapped […]
July 2, 2019
Doublethink Anew
from The Atlantic Doublethink Is Stronger Than Orwell Imagined What 1984 means today GEORGE PACKER No novel of the past century has had more influence than George Orwell’s 1984. The title, the adjectival form of the author’s last name, the vocabulary of the all-powerful Party that rules the superstate Oceania with the ideology of Ingsoc—doublethink, memory hole, unperson, thoughtcrime, Newspeak, Thought Police, Room 101, Big Brother—they’ve all […]
July 1, 2019
New Mineral Goldmine
from WIRED NEW ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES UNEARTH A TROVE OF UNUSUAL MINERALS by SOPHIA CHEN THE LANDSCAPE OF Kamchatka Peninsula steams with sulfurous vapor, its 29 active volcanoes forming a hazy backdrop for the region’s herds of reindeer and rivers of salmon. One of the most geologically active places in the world, Kamchatka juts out from the […]
June 30, 2019
Taco Bell Hotel Books Out in Two Minutes
from USA Today Taco Bell’s pop-up hotel reservations sell out in 2 minutes Sherry Barkas, Palm Springs Desert Sun Apparently, people were excited about the prospect of sleeping in a taco-themed room. So excited that reservations for the Taco Bell pop-up hotel in Palm Springs, California, sold out in just 2 minutes after opening at 10 a.m. Pacific time […]
June 29, 2019
New Jersey New King of Online Betting
from Bloomberg via Yahoo! Finance Move Over, Nevada: New Jersey Is Now the Sports-Betting King by Eben Novy-Williams (Bloomberg) — New Jersey legalized sports betting a year ago, and last month the state’s operators passed a major milestone. For the first time, sports bettors wagered more in New Jersey than in Nevada, which for decades […]
June 28, 2019
The Vindicator Gone
from The Plain-Dealer The Vindicator, Youngstown’s daily newspaper, will close after 150 years By Jordyn Grzelewski YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — The Vindicator, which recently marked its 150th publication anniversary and is Youngstown’s only daily newspaper, told employees Friday afternoon that it will close. Bertram de Souza, The Vindicator’s editorial page editor and a columnist, recalled that when […]
June 27, 2019
Eta Carinae
from CNN A mysterious fast radio burst was traced to a galaxy 3.6 billion light-years away By Ashley Strickland For the first time, a single burst of cosmic radio waves has been traced to its point of origin: in this case, a galaxy about 3.6 billion light-years from Earth. These radio bursts are only millisecond-long radio […]
June 10, 2019
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