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Mona Lisa Fracture

from The Telegraph Leonardo da Vinci never finished the Mona Lisa because he injured his arm while fainting, experts say by  Henry Bodkin The chalk drawing of da Vinci by Giovan Ambrogio Finio has offered new clues CREDIT: POLO MUSEALE DEL VENETO Leonardo da Vinci left the Mona Lisa unfinished because he gravely injured his arm while fainting, […]

The Birth Of Prime

from Vox The making of Amazon Prime, the internet’s most successful and devastating membership program An oral history of the subscription service that changed online shopping forever. By Jason Del Rey It’s easy to forget now, but Amazon wasn’t always the king of online shopping. In the fall of 2004, Jeff Bezos’s company was still mostly […]

Chewbacca Gone

from CNN Peter Mayhew, Chewbacca in ‘Star Wars,’ dies at 74 By Kendall Trammell and Jamiel Lynch Peter Mayhew, the original Chewbacca, has died, according to his agent. Mayhew, 74, died on April 30 with his family by his side in his North Texas home. He is survived by his wife, Angie, and three children. The Hollywood icon […]

The Three Walken Pigs

Moon Race

from The New Yorker The Race to Develop the Moon For science, profit, and pride, China, the U.S., and private companies are hunting for resources on the lunar surface. By Rivka Galchen In January, the China National Space Administration landed a spacecraft on the far side of the moon, the side we can’t see from Earth. Chang’e-4 was named […]

Sex Pot

from Metro UK People are putting cannabis up their bums and vaginas to have better sex by Jasper Hamill This packet contains a cannabis suppositry (Image: Foria) Here in the UK, most cannabis users eat, smoke or vaporize weed to get high. But in US states where it’s now legal, a very different method of using […]

Flash You Were Here

Welcome Back, Carter

from The Hollywood Reporter Graydon Carter: Life After Vanity Fair and Embracing the Future (Guest Column) Graydon Carter E. Charbonneau/WireImage Graydon Carter (right) with Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes at the 2007 Vanity Fair Oscar party at Morton’s. Sure, the perks, pleasures and expense accounts of a vanishing print business have been replaced by digital […]

Armageddon Map

from France 24 Mapping Armaggedon: Earth’s looming tsunamis and mega-quakes A landslide from Anak Karkatau triggered a tsunami that killed 437 people and injured 30,000 in December 2018 AFP/File As villagers along the Sunda Strait were finishing their meals on the evening of 22 December last year, they had no idea of the cataclysmic event […]

Miles Millar & Alfred Gough in conversation w/ James Frey