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Bocuse Gone

from Reuters ‘Nouvelle cuisine’ pioneer Bocuse dies at 91 Reuters Staff PARIS (Reuters) – Paul Bocuse, one of France’s most celebrated chefs, has died at the age of 91, the interior minister said on Saturday. Bocuse was an early exponent of “nouvelle cuisine”, which reinterpreted traditional French cooking using less butter and cream and focusing […]

Dominance & Submission (Radios Appear)

from Prospect How the internet controls you Corporate giants have created an entirely new surveillance capitalism. And we’re too hooked to care by John Naughton The “dust of exploded beliefs,” the English aphorist Geoffrey Madan once wrote, “may make a fine sunset.” We’re beginning to see that glow over the internet which, if you count […]

747 Gone

from The New York Times The 747 Had a Great Run. But Farewell Doesn’t Mean the End. By Zach Wichter MARANA, Ariz. — There may be no airliner as recognizable as the Boeing 747, the world’s first jumbo jet, with its iconic hump of an upper deck. For aviation fans, the introduction of the “Queen […]

Dad Rap

from The Wall Street Journal Hip-Hop’s Generation Gap: ‘Emo’ vs. ‘Dad’ Rap As the music genre has become a commercial juggernaut, some worry about a cultural divide between younger and older artists By Neil Shah Rap has become the most-consumed music in America, according to industry data, but with its growth comes a new concern: a […]

Dolores O’Riordan Gone

from The New Yorker The Ferocious, Sublime Dolores O’Riordan, of the Cranberries By Amanda Petrusich The Irish singer Dolores O’Riordan, who fronted the alt-rock band the Cranberries since 1989, died on Monday, at the age of forty-six. O’Riordan was managing several health issues at the time of her death—she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in […]

Record Sierra Wind

from The San Francisco Chronicle 199-MPH Sierra wind gust sets California record By Amy Graff A gust that blasted the summit of a peak at Alpine Meadows in February was the fastest non-tornado wind recorded in the United States in 2017. The 199-mph gust was also the fastest ever recorded in California, according to the […]

Love Love Deuce

from TIME Why Is Tennis Scored So Weirdly? By MERRILL FABRY Do you have a question about history? Send us your question at history@time .com and you might find your answer in a future edition of Now You Know. All sports have their own vocabularies, the shorthand lingo to communicate intricacies of rules and how […]

Earth Slows Down, Earth Quakes

from The Mirror Powerful earthquakes to ravage Earth in 2018 as planet’s rotation temporarily slows Experts believe there is a correlation between the slowing of the Earth’s rotation and more powerful earthquakes By Jeff Parsons The world is entering a period of higher seismic activity this year that will bring more earthquakes with it, scientists have […]

Cleveland Browns Implicated In Fan’s Death

from CBS Pittsburgh Ohio Man’s Obituary Blames Browns For His Demise HURON, OH (AP) – An Ohio man’s tongue-in-cheek obituary blames the winless Cleveland Browns for contributing to his demise. The obituary published in the Sandusky Register says Paul Stark died Wednesday at a hospice facility after a brief illness “exacerbated by the hopeless condition of […]

1968 Predictions on 2018

from The New Yorker The 1968 Book That Tried to Predict the World of 2018 By Paul Collins For every amusingly wrong prediction in “Toward the Year 2018,” a speculative book from 1968, there’s one unnervingly close to the mark. / Illustration by Robert Beatty If you wanted to hear the future in late May, […]