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Saturday 18 July 2020

Mask What You Can Do For Your Country

Who Is Wearing Masks In The US, Visualized, The Most Fascinating Cases That 'Unsolved Mysteries' Viewers Helped Solve, Straight Men Share The Strangest Things They Were Told Not To Do Because It's 'Gay' In This Topsy-Turvy Reddit Thread
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MASK ON, MASK OFF
Who Is Wearing Masks In The US, Visualized
nytimes.com
The patterns from hundreds of thousands of survey respondents reflect partisanship, peer pressure and the footprint of the coronavirus itself.
HERE ARE ALL THE HURDLES LEFT
What It Will Take To Get To A Vaccine
gq.com
A defense against COVID-19 could be ready in less than two years. If so, here's a speculative look of how it might go down, based on discussions with vaccinologists, physicians, and public health experts.
BOMBS AWAY
The Population Bomb Didn't Detonate. Turns Out There's A New Problem.
grist.org
Ever since Thomas Malthus got it started in 1798, people have been warning that population growth would lead to famine and environmental destruction. But now a new study forecasts new threats to the economic and social order caused by precipitous population decline.
DO YOU WANT THE BAD NEWS OR THE WORSE NEWS
Inside Big Tech's Years-Long Manipulation Of American Op-Ed Pages
onezero.medium.com
Why you should probably read opinion pieces supporting the tech giants with skepticism.
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New Season Of The Broken Ground Podcast: Navigating Sea Level Rise In The South
brokengroundpodcast.org
Broken Ground is exploring how coastal communities are navigating sea level rise as they race against the clock. How will people on the front lines protect themselves from the rising tides? Find out this season.
THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS
GOT A BONE TO PICK WITH YOU
Here Are The Most Fascinating Cases That 'Unsolved Mysteries' Viewers Helped Solve
vice.com
At least 200 cases have been solved thanks to tips from viewers of the original series, from IDing found skeletons to exposing hoaxes.
FELLAS, IS IT GAY TO EXIST?
Straight Men Share The Most Absurd Things They've Been Told Not To Do Because It Was 'Gay'
digg.com
Straight male readers, stop whatever you're doing right now: it's probably gay.
SHARK TANKED
'Jaws' Is An Undisputed Masterpiece. So How Did It Produce One Of The Worst Sequels Ever Made?
esquire.com
Thirty-three years ago, "Jaws: The Revenge" effectively harpooned the beloved shark franchise. Here's what happened.
A NEW ERA
The Unprecedented History Of The Chicks: A Timeline
vulture.com
As Natalie Maines, Martie Maguire and Emily Strayer today release "Gaslighter," their first album in nearly a decade and a half, it's an ideal time to revisit pivotal moments along their fraught path.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
ANYONE LOSE A BALL?
Guy Makes A Spry Climb To The Top Of This Roof, Throws Down Decades Worth Of Lost Balls
digg.com
Ever lose a ball or a frisbee on someone's roof and it felt like it was gone forever? This legend took matters into his own hands to free them.
EDITOR'S PICK
FROM WAY DOWNTOWN
Kid Gets Out Of Bedtime With This Insane Trick Shot
youtube.com
This dad wagered his kids that if they made this shot they could stay up another half-hour. Here's how they did.
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How Can Coffee Be Improved? Age It In A Bourbon Barrel
huckberry.com
Pappy & Company have put their bourbon barrels to good use! After they've done their job making some of the best bourbon on the planet, they're repurposed to make some damn fine coffee.
FROM THE ARCHIVES
THE CASE OF THE GARROTED MAN
Mysterious Circumstances: The Strange Death Of A 'Sherlock Holmes' Fanatic (2004)
newyorker.com
Richard Lancelyn Green, the world's foremost expert on Sherlock Holmes, believed that he had finally solved the case of the missing papers. Then he was murdered.
TRUE HORROR
Searching For The Truth About The Actual Murderer In 'The Exorcist' (2018)
esquire.com
For decades, Paul Bateson's name has been attached to a spree of gruesome murders in the '70s. This is our search for what's true and what's legend.
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Friday 17 July 2020

Hack To The Future

Who's Behind Wednesday's Epic Twitter Hack?, The Hollywood Stars That Have Been Rejected The Most Times, Visualized, The True Story Of The Heartthrob Prince Of Qatar And His Time At USC
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WELCOME TO THE UNITED STATES OF GENOVIA
The True Story Of The Heartthrob Prince Of Qatar And His Time At USC
latimes.com
When a Qatari sheikh came to live in Los Angeles, an entire economy sprouted to meet all of his wishes. "His highness doesn't like to hear no," one advisor told a professor.
WHODUNIT?
Who's Behind Wednesday's Epic Twitter Hack?
krebsonsecurity.com
Twitter was thrown into chaos on Wednesday after accounts for some of the world's most recognizable public figures, executives and celebrities starting tweeting out links to bitcoin scams. This post is an attempt to lay out some of the timeline of this attack, and point to clues about who may have been behind it.
THE ROAD ONCE TAKEN
White Supremacy Was Her World. And Then She Left
nytimes.com
To stop hate, we have to understand it.
BILL MURRAY AS BATMAN?
The Hollywood Stars That Have Been Rejected The Most Times, Visualized
digg.com
It can be disheartening when a job you interview for doesn't pan out, but it may be reassuring to know that even the biggest stars in Hollywood get turned down for roles all the time.
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Indochino Is Having A Major Custom Suit Sale — But Hurry!
indochino.com
Get a perfectly-fitted suit made to your exact measurements from just $299 during Indochino's Summer Sale. These stylish options from Indochino offer a personalized fit and a ton of customizable options.
PEAKS AND VALLEYS
OVER THE HILL
Laura Ingraham's Descent Into Despair
theatlantic.com
At some point, her Reaganite optimism slowly hardened into something better described as a form of apocalyptic pessimism.
CAN'T CAVE IN
This Woman Inspired One Of The First Hit Video Games By Mapping The World's Longest Cave
onezero.medium.com
Patricia Crowther's ex-husband coded her cave maps into one of the first hit adventure games in the 1970s, and she had no idea.
HOMICIDE AT ROUGH POINT
How A Tobacco Heiress Might Have Gotten Away With Murder
vanityfair.com
In the fall of 1966, billionaire Doris Duke killed a close confidant in tony Newport, Rhode Island. Local police ruled the incident "an unfortunate accident." Half a century later, compelling evidence suggests that the mercurial, vindictive tobacco heiress got away with murder.
BEAR NECESSITIES
One Woman, Four Men, A Tiny Boat And A Hungry Polar Bear
cnn.com
The summer before I turned 40 — with my fertility ebbing, as everyone with a vested interest in such things felt the need to remind me — I decided to set sail on the biggest adventure of my life.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
JAR CITY
Guy Discovers The Terrarium His Brother Left In Isolation For 12 Years Has Exploded Into A Bustling Ecosystem
youtube.com
A YouTuber discovers the terrarium built by their brother back in 2008 has flourished as a closed ecosystem.
IN THE NEWS
From Dream Job To Nightmare: 15 Women Accuse Then-Redskins Employees Of Sexual Harassment
US Reports A Record 75,600 New Daily COVID-19 Cases
Reverend C.T. Vivian, Civil Rights Veteran Who Worked Alongside Martin Luther King Jr, Passes Away At 95
The African Continent Is Very Slowly Peeling Apart. Scientists Say A New Ocean Is Being Born
A Georgia Teen On Her First Skydive And A Veteran Instructor Died When Their Chutes Failed
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These Knives Strive For True Perfection
kickstarter.com
Making excellent knives is more challenging than you might think. Everybody has different hands, and needs can vary substantially. So when someone aims for creating "perfect" knives, we take note.
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'SOMETHING WAS VERY WRONG'
The Lawyer, The Addict (2017)
nytimes.com
A high-powered Silicon Valley attorney dies. His ex-wife investigates, and finds a web of drug abuse in his profession.
A REAL DEBATE OVER A FAKE CREATURE
To Kill Or To Capture Bigfoot: The Great Cryptozoological Debate (2018)
gizmodo.com
While the cryptozoological community agrees that Bigfoot is out there, they can't agree on what should happen if we do end up encountering Sasquatch.
The things you build in childhood, you never know but one day they might just suddenly flower.