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Ikea Catalog Gone

from Business Insider via MSN Ikea is getting rid of its iconic catalog, one of the most popular books in the world, ending a 70-year print run insider@insider.com (Grace Dean) After almost 70 years, Swedish furniture giant Ikea is scrapping its iconic catalog. The company will no longer produce print and digital versions of the […]

A History Of Wood

from VICE The Untold Story of Wood, the Well-Endowed Man From Those Coronavirus Texts Through interviews with his loved ones, we dug deeper into the fascinating life of Wardy Joubert III, the real man behind the memes. By Alex Zaragoza Last week, I went down a rabbit hole in pursuit of a story: the proliferation of prank […]

Christmas Star Coming

from Fox News 5 NY Jupiter and Saturn to align in the sky this month as ‘Christmas Star’ By Chris Ciaccia and Fox 13 News staff The two largest planets in the solar system, Jupiter and Saturn, have fascinated astronomers for hundreds of years. But the two gas giants will do something next month not seen since the Middle […]

Ancient Bungee Art

from artnet More Photos Have Emerged from the Massive Rock Art Discovery in the Amazon, and They’re Amazing—See Them Here Who knew that ancient Amazonians bungee jumped? Well, now you do! by Brian Boucher Archaeologists recently discovered eight miles of painted rock face in the Colombian Amazon, sited along the Guayabero River. The Colombian and English researchers […]

Arecibo Gone

from CBS News Iconic Arecibo Observatory radio telescope collapses after cable broke A huge radio telescope in Puerto Rico that has long played a key role in astronomical discoveries collapsed on Tuesday, officials said. The Arecibo Observatory, made famous as the backdrop for a pivotal scene in the James Bond film “GoldenEye” and other Hollywood hits, had been shuttered […]

The Confessions of Samuel Little

from The Washington Post via San Francisco Chronicle How America’s deadliest serial killer went undetected for more than 40 years by Wesley Lowery, Hannah Knowles and Mark Berman, The Washington Post Samuel Little guided his car to a stop in a secluded area off Route 27 near Miami and cut the engine. Before long, Mary Brosley […]

Darth Vader Gone

from The Verge Darth Vader actor David Prowse has died at 85 The 6-foot-6 former bodybuilder played the Star Wars villain in the original trilogy By Kim Lyons David Prowse, the actor who played Darth Vader in the original Star Wars films, has died, the Associated Press reported. He was 85.  George Lucas asked Prowse to audition for Star […]

Monolith Returned

from artnet A Mysterious Steel Monolith Was Discovered in the Utah Desert. Is It a Work of Art—or the Work of Aliens? Theories about who or what is behind the object have started circulating online. Cue Also sprach Zarathustra.  A mysterious steel monolith has been discovered deep in the red rock canyons of southern Utah. And […]

Maradona Gone

from GOAL Maradona: The making of a footballing legend by Daniel Edwards The Argentine hero celebrated his 60th birthday shortly before his untimely death on Wednesday, and Goal looks back on what made him such an icon  A legend, a man whose every word and action is headline news. Diego Maradona passed away on Wednesday at […]

B.E.E. Serial

from MovieMaker Bret Easton Ellis Serializes New High School Serial Killer Story — on His Podcast by Tim Molloy For the last six episodes of his podcast, American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis has held readers rapt with an early 1980s story of Los Angeles high school kids who become entangled with a handsome new student named […]