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Saturday 26 September 2020

Cage Against The Machine

The Real Reason Why 'National Treasure 3' Never Happened, Are You Aging Correctly?, This Week's Main Characters And Best Tweets
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WHAT WILL HE STEAL NEXT?
The Real Reason Why 'National Treasure 3' Never Happened
collider.com
While director Jon Turtletaub and producer Jerry Bruckheimer would periodically tease another installment, beginning as early as 2008, one never materialized. And now we might know why we never got a third "National Treasure" adventure.
NO YOUR KID DIDN'T SAY THAT
A Guy Who Died Of COVID Advises Against Masks, #Ruthkanda Forever And More Of This Week's Main Characters
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Every day somebody says or does something that earns them the undivided attention of the internet. Here are the main characters this week, from Herman Cain to a beaver that took four years to photograph.
JULIO, GET THE TWEETS
Three White Guys Making Small Talk On A Podcast, Julio The Renaissance Man And Other 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.
ALL EYES ON HER
10 Surprising Facts About Britney Spears
mentalfloss.com
Britney Spears's songs, music videos and live performances defined the late 1990s and early 2000s and inspired an entire generation of future pop stars.
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PICTURE THIS
Homeless Shelters In Rich People's Living Rooms, And Other Best Photography Of The Week
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Also including "The Geometric Beauty of Los Angels" and a photo series honoring the photographer's ancestors.
EDITOR'S PICK
KEY MATTERS
Woman Tries Trick To Stop Cat From Lying On Her Laptop, Is Surprised That It Works
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Sometimes it's just the simplest of things that does the trick.
LOOKING FORWARD
HASTA LA LISA
Predicting What Future 'Karens' Will Be Named, Visualized
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Who's going to be the next "Karen" asking to speak to the manager in the 2030s and 2040s?
ALL PART OF GROWING UP
Are You Aging Correctly?
thecut.com
Sure, I'd gained a few pounds and my hair had turned frizzy, but I still felt pretty good about myself. Now I was living that nightmare where you're in class and you look down and you're not wearing any pants.
THEY KNOW TOO MUCH
How Algorithms Discern Our Mood From What We Write Online
knowablemagazine.org
While sentiment analysis is far from perfect, it manages to distill meaning from huge amounts of data — and could one day even monitor mental health.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
MAY HER MEMORY BE A BLESSING
Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Trainer Paid His Final Respects By Doing Push-Ups Beside Her Casket
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Bryant Johnson, Ruth Bader Ginsburg's personal trainer, had an unconventional way of paying his respects as she lay in state in the United States Capitol.
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SHADES OF GRAY
Irrational Man: Thomas Chatterton Williams's Confused Argument For A Post-Racial Society (2019)
bookforum.com
Thomas Chatterton Williams is one of many voices whose arguments are part of a new trend of intellectual incoherence, and his new book about his renouncing his blackness makes that clear.
IN THE SPUTNIK OF TIME
The CIA's Bold Kidnapping Of A Soviet Spacecraft (2015)
popsci.com
Intended to level the playing field between two international superpowers, it was a heist that risked turning the Cold War hot.
Don't think about this too hard, but Saturday is the Friday of the weekend.

Friday 25 September 2020

🚆 The 'Mancave' Below Grand Central Station

How They Made The Terrifying Basement Scene In 'Zodiac,' These Letters From Presidents To Their Successors Show What A Peaceful Transfer Of Power Looks Like, This Is How The Pandemic Will End
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EMERGE FROM THE OTHER SIDE
DARK MOON AND TERROR RISING
How They Made The Terrifying Basement Scene In 'Zodiac'
theringer.com
Robert Graysmith visiting the home of Bob Vaughn in "Zodiac" may be the scariest scene in David Fincher's filmography.
CAVE OF WONDERS
Secret 'Man Cave' Discovered Below Grand Central Station Platform
nbcnewyork.com
The room below one of the platforms was so secret, station management didn't even know it existed.
'I EXPECT A LITTLE BIT OF CHAOS'
Here's How The Pandemic Finally Ends
politico.com
A vaccine by early 2021, a steady decline in cases by next fall and back to normal in a few years — 11 top experts look into the future.
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FOLLOW THE SIGNS
DA VINKY?!
The Week's Best Memes, Ranked
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This week, we've got "I made a new friend" from "Donnie Darko," Da Vinky, "Among Us" and every straight couple in Brooklyn.
THE BIGGER PICTURE
The Truth About Violent Crime In American Cities, Explained In 11 Charts
vox.com
Trump speaks of "anarchy and mayhem" in cities. But understanding violent crime is much more complicated than simply looking at numbers.
DEAR MR. PRESIDENT
These Letters From Presidents To Their Successors Show What A Peaceful Transfer Of Power Looks Like
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"There won't be a transfer [of power] frankly," Trump said on Wednesday. "There'll be a continuation."
VIDEO OF THE DAY
SUDDENLY I SEA
When Your Dramatic Entry From The Sea Gets Completely, Utterly Upstaged
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This was… quite a turn of events.
IN THE NEWS
Vehicles Drive Through Breonna Taylor Protest In Hollywood, At Least One Injured
House Democrats Prepare New $2.4 Trillion Stimulus Plan With Unemployment Aid, Direct Payments
Kim Jong Un Apologizes In Letter To Seoul For Shooting Of South Korean Official
Court Orders Census Counting To Continue Through Oct 31; Appeal Expected
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DIGITAL BREADCRUMBS
How To Find A Missing Airplane (2011)
airspacemag.com
Airplanes can vanish without a trace. Why is effective tracking technology being ignored?
NO CONSEQUENCES
She Was Convicted Of Killing Her Mother. Prosecutors Withheld The Evidence That Would Have Freed Her (2017)
nytimes.com
By the time Noura Jackson's conviction was overturned, she had spent nine years in prison. This type of prosecutorial error is almost never punished.
You can have a man cave, just don't build it under a train station.