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Saturday 11 July 2020

Here Comes The Story Of The Hurricane

How A 'Heat Dome' Forms — And Why This One Is So Perilous, A 28-Year-Old With No Degree Becomes A Must-Read On The Economy, What It Was Like To Play Zion Williamson In High School Basketball
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A 28-Year-Old With No Degree Becomes A Must-Read On The Economy
bloomberg.com
Subscribers to Nathan Tankus's newsletter, Notes on the Crises, aren't bothered by his lack of diplomas.
DUKE IT OUT
What It Was Like To Play Zion Williamson In High School Basketball
melmagazine.com
What was it like to just be some regular teenage kid, having to match up against a generational talent like Williamson, an NBA No. 1 pick?
STORMY WEATHER AHEAD
'Crazy In The Middle Of The Night' Texts: Watchdog Details Storm Of Political Pressure In Sharpiegate
nbcnews.com
Amid White House pressure, top weather officials "unnecessarily rebuked" National Weather Service forecasters who contradicted Trump, the inspector general found.
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TIMES ARE A-CHANGIN'
OUT OF WORK
The Fishing Guide Who Learned How To Flip Cars
story.californiasunday.com
The call center employee leaning on her teenage son, the event planner who moved back home and other stories of people dealing with joblessness during the pandemic.
DYING TO BE FREE
How Two Waves Of Coronavirus Cases Swept Through The Texas Panhandle
newyorker.com
"If the first wave of the virus in the Panhandle was a story of rumor, stalled information, and essential work, the second wave was a story of reopening based on willful ignorance."
NOT A FAN
How A 'Heat Dome' Forms — And Why This One Is So Perilous
wired.com
A massive, intense heat wave is settling over the continental US. The ravages of the COVID pandemic are going to make it all the more deadly.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
COOL BEANS
Guy Transforms His Body With Strict All-Bean Diet For 40 Days
youtube.com
Inspired by John Steinbeck's Tortilla Flat, an Aussie attempts to eat only beans for 40 days.
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This Face Shield Is Clearly A Sleek Way To Stay Safe
kickstarter.com
Some folks need to be able to see mouths for communication purposes. If that's you or someone in your family, maybe this slick face shield can help you reduce your risk of transmission.
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A 40-YEAR-OLD IN AN 80-YEAR-OLD'S BODY
The Man Who Is Aging Too Fast (2019)
digg.com
Nobuaki Nagashima has Werner syndrome, which causes his body to age at super speed. This condition is teaching us more about what controls our genes, and could eventually help us find a way to slow aging — or stop it altogether.
WHAT A HAM
Our Glorious, Gaudy Dinner Date At America's Kitschiest Restaurant (2019)
messynessychic.com
Free for a dinner date tonight? We'll cosy up under the palm trees, beneath the eyes of Grecian statues and the bubbling of waterfalls; we'll stroll amongst Medici-inspired gardens and socialise with 200-and-something other guests who've ordered a Delmonico steak, or triple-decker monte cristo sammie.
Remember when dinner dates at restaurants were a thing?

Friday 10 July 2020

School's Out Forever

Kevin Smith's Infamous Wife Tweet Is Still Breaking Brains, I Haven't Had Sex For 10 Years — And I Have No Regrets, 'Worse Than New York': How Coronavirus Exploded In South Carolina
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'IT's NOT WHAT I NEED'
I Haven't Had Sex For 10 Years — And I Have No Regrets
buzzfeednews.com
My sex life as a fat woman was a trickle of accumulated humiliations and loneliness, so I decided to try enjoying my own company instead.
CHALLENGE THE STATUS QUO
What Happens When You're Disabled But Nobody Can Tell
nytimes.com
The author and clinical psychologist Andrew Solomon examines the disabilities that ramps and reserved parking spots don't address.
CLASS DISMISSED
'That's Crazy': Reopening Schools Is Possible, But We're Doing It Wrong
politico.com
Economist Emily Oster weighs risks and benefits for a living. She thinks kids could go back to school with the pandemic, but we're gambling with lives either way — and the political argument is making the whole problem much worse.
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The Week's Best Memes, Ranked
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This week, we've got Kanye West president memes, the worst place in New York City, the movie villain vs. the actual villain and #RIPEllen memes.
'WE'RE IN A WAR ZONE'
'Worse Than New York': How Coronavirus Exploded In South Carolina
thedailybeast.com
South Carolina is besieged by the coronavirus, reporting more cases per capita than most countries. "We've completely lost control of the situation," one doctor said.
RUMOR HAS IT
The Sinister Origins Of The Peanut Butter-Dog-Vagina Myth
melmagazine.com
That sexist schoolyard rumor is no joke. It's based on a piece of folklore going back at least as far as the 1930s — and it's been used to wrongly convict a woman of child abuse.
THROW A CURVEBALL
An Algorithm Set Students' Grades — And Altered Their Futures
wired.com
18-year-old Anahita Nagpal's plans to start training this fall to be a doctor are in ruins. She blames a statistical model.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
HOTLINE PING
Watch These Poor Divers Get 'Pinged' By A Submarine's Sonar While Scuba Diving
youtube.com
Diving next to a submarine while it's pulsing sonar seems like the worst experience in the world. Warning: maybe lower the volume for this video.
IN THE NEWS
The Supreme Court Just Dealt A Huge Blow To Congress's Power To Investigate Trump
A Rare Heat Wave Event Is Forecast This Weekend, The National Weather Service Says
Supreme Court Hands Oklahoma A Loss On Tribal Lands Fight
New York City Paints Black Lives Matter Mural In Front Of Trump Tower
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PLEASE DON'T MAKE US TALK ABOUT KEVIN
Kevin Smith's Infamous Wife Tweet Is Still Breaking Brains — 10 Years Later (2019)
melmagazine.com
Once you see it, you'll never be the same. NSFW!
THE PURSUIT OF CHAD-INESS
How Many Bones Would You Break To Get Laid? (2019)
thecut.com
"Incels" are going under the knife to reshape their faces and dating prospects.
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