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When News Became Sports

from Vanity Fair “SHOTS FIRED. HILTON HOTEL”: HOW CNN’S RAW, UNFOLDING REAGAN COVERAGE HERALDED THE NONSTOP NEWS CYCLE Ted Turner’s upstart cable network beat the Big Three in reporting on the 1981 assassination attempt, though it—along with its broadcast rivals—made a major mistake amid the studio chaos, an early sign of the perils of breaking […]

Pas plus, Nicoderm! Merde!

from The New York Post France limits sales of nicotine products after fewer smokers catch coronavirus By Laura Italiano Fearing a run on nicotine gum and patches, France has banned the online sale of the products — a move spurred by reports of a lower-than-expected number of smokers among those hospitalized with the coronavirus. In addition […]

Return of The Stoics

from The Guardian Stoicism in a time of pandemic: how Marcus Aurelius can help by Donald Robertson The Meditations, by a Roman emperor who died in a plague named after him, has much to say about how to face fear, pain, anxiety and loss. The Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was the last famous Stoic […]

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COVID In The Nude

from DNYUZ The Nude Selfie Is Now High Art It has become an act of resilience in isolation, a way to seduce without touch. Before face-touching became potentially lethal, my friend Dave had a lot of lovers. Now he makes do with nude selfies. He doesn’t even request them, he says. They appear as if […]

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Family Video Gaming Finally

from TIME Magazine Don’t Feel Bad If Your Kids Are Gaming More Than Ever. In Fact, Why Not Join Them? BY SEAN GREGORY I’ve been thinking an awful lot about the 1989 Detroit Pistons over the past few days. Rick Mahorn, the starting power forward, can’t make a goddamn layup. Neither can Dennis Rodman. Isaiah Thomas is missing […]

Fake Planet News

from USA Today What scientists had believed was a planet beyond our solar system has now apparently disappeared from sight, a study says, which suggests “that what was heralded as one of the first exoplanets to ever be discovered … likely never existed,” according to the University of Arizona. The “exoplanet,” a planet outside our solar system, supposedly […]

Rogue Waves

from The Future of Things The Wave That Changed Science by Ran Levi Over the centuries many sailors described seeing huge ocean waves, monsters of the seas that towered to heights of 30 meters and more. Those Rogue Waves, as they were called, appeared suddenly and rammed into the unfortunate vessel. Scientists tended to ignore […]

COVID Reads

from The Millions On Pandemic and Literature by Ed Simon Less than a century after the Black Death descended into Europe and killed 75 million people—as much as 60 percent of the population (90% in some places) dead in the five years after 1347—an anonymous Alsatian engraver with the fantastic appellation of “Master of the […]