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Saturday 19 September 2020

Hell Hath No Murphy

Here Are Some Of The Harshest, Funniest Things Critics Have Said About 'Ratched', A Rare Day-By-Day Document Of Life Aboard A Slave Ship, The Mystery Of Why Some Vaccines Are Doubly Beneficial
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'A RECORD OF SO MUCH PAIN'
A Rare Day-By-Day Document Of Life Aboard A Slave Ship
atlasobscura.com
The logbook is written from the white perspective, and its horrors are plain to see.
SCIENCE IS MAGIC
The Mystery Of Why Some Vaccines Are Doubly Beneficial
bbc.com
Vaccines have been providing a kind of hidden, unintended protection for over a century. Now scientists are racing to find out how it works.
HERE'S THE SKINNY
Here's London's Narrowest Home At Only 5 Feet, 5 Inches Across And It's Currently On The Market For Nearly $1.3M
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If you've ever had a wild dream of living in a really narrow house, preferably located in London, now is your time. Apparently, someone is currently selling the thinnest house in London, which is only 5 feet and 5 inches wide.
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PICTURE THIS
A Road Trip Along Route 66, And Other Best Photography Of The Week
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A surreal collection of pools, the clouds in our midst and other best photos of the week.
EDITOR'S PICK
HEAR, HEAR
How This One Note Ended Up Dominating The Entire Pop Music Landscape
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From "Get Lucky" to "Cake By The Ocean," this musical note has commanded the way pop music sounds over the past 10 years.
YOU'RE HOT THEN YOU'RE COLD
TEMP POSITIONS
Each State's Preference For Being Hot Or Cold, Mapped
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Graphic designer Matt Shirley asked his Instagram followers from different states to vote whether they'd rather be hot or cold.
STEELY DAN IS FOR MEN ONLY?
Who Was This Week's 'One Main Character' On Twitter?
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Every day somebody says or does something that earns them the scorn of the internet. To that end, we rounded up the "main characters" on Twitter from this past week and held them accountable for their actions.
THE RATCHED OF THE EARTH
Reviews For The New Netflix Show 'Ratched' Are Bad. Here Are The Funniest, Harshest Things Critics Have Said
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Ryan Murphy's new Netflix series "Ratched" seems to be a hot mess, according to reviews. Here are some of the most caustic comments critics have made about the show.
MAN, IT'S A HOT ONE
Every Place Has Its Own Climate Risk. What Is It Where You Live?
nytimes.com
Perhaps focusing on today's real harms could help us figure out how to start dealing with climate change. Here's one way to do that: by looking at the most significant climate threat unfolding in your own backyard.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
COOL CATS
Woman Pretends To Lose Consciousness, Elicits Very Different Reactions From Dog And Cat
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Some pets rise to the occasion. Some nonchalantly look on.
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'MY VOICE WILL HAUNT YOU'
'Silver Springs': Inside Fleetwood Mac's Great Lost Breakup Anthem (2017)
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A look back at Stevie Nicks' tortured torch song — and how it almost broke up the band.
SEPARATED AT MIRTH
Three Identical Men And A Mystery (2018)
newrepublic.com
A new documentary about the chance reunion of long-lost triplets contains a dark episode of American history at its core.
Take some time to cool down this weekend.

Friday 18 September 2020

The $100 Million Mistake

How Retaining Ownership Of Trump's Hotels Cost The President A Fortune, The Largest Helicopter Ever Built Was Also Completely Useless
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VALUE JUDGEMENT
RAISE THE ROOF
Why We Don't Like Our Underground House
dengarden.com
Our dream home was less than perfect and certainly didn't live up to the hype from the advertising brochures.
BLADE STUNNER
The Largest Helicopter Ever Built Was Also Completely Useless
popularmechanics.com
This Soviet chopper was bigger than a 737 and an engineering marvel. What went wrong?
COMES WITH A COST
Trump's $100 Million Mistake: How Retaining Ownership Of His Hotels Cost The President A Fortune
forbes.com
As President Trump has bragged about leveraging his business acumen to financially steward the country, he has managed to lose an estimated $100 million on just two hotels that look like cash cows, but in reality, seem to be money pits.
THE FORCE WAS WITH HIM
This Guy Takes Old Thrift Store Paintings And Adds Star Wars To Them
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Redditor DaveRuinsArt made excellent use of his quarantine time by adding Star Wars vehicles and characters to unsold thrift store paintings.
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ON THE SAME WAVELENGTH
IS FOR 👉ME👈?
The Week's Best Memes, Ranked
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This week, we've got OnlyFans spinoffs, "My son can't be gay. He's obsessed with women," item drop when you kill me, "Is for me?" and life on Venus.
ALL HAIL QUEEN CARLY
Why Grown-Ass Men Get So Emotional About Carly Rae Jepsen
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"Dedicated" only begins to describe CRJ's male fanbase — so we asked more than 60 grown-ass dudes to cut to the feeling and tell us why.
ASPIRING WHISTLEBLOWERS, UNITE
The Best Tweets Of The Week
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Or some of them, anyway. Here we round up a collection of some of the best things we've seen on Twitter in the last week or so.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
THE GOOD FIGHT
Firefighter Listens To Fire Conspiracy Theories, Shuts It Down In The Most Rational, No-Nonsense Way
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Some days you fight fires, some days you fight fire conspiracies.
IN THE NEWS
Trump To Block US Downloads Of TikTok, WeChat On Sunday
C.D.C. Testing Guidance Was Published Against Scientists' Objections
A Massachusetts Teenager Tested Positive For COVID-19. His Parents Sent Him To School Anyway
Canada Tesla Driver Charged Over 'Napping While Speeding' At Over 90MPH
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MISTAKEN IDENTITY
The Spy Photo That Fooled NPR, The US Army Intelligence Center And Me (2013)
theatlantic.com
A story of a mistaken identity reveals a lot about the history of black women in America, the challenges of understanding the past and who we are today.
TERROR IN GRAND CENTRAL
Ghoulish Acts And Dastardly Deeds (2017)
damninteresting.com
In the 1950s, an anonymous terrorist planted a pipe bomb in a New York City public space. Then another. And another.
Maybe don't buy an underground house or a big helicopter anytime soon.