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Saturday 28 November 2020

The Man Behind New York's Most Expensive Homes

Macy's Parade From Up Above, Snail Art, And More Best Photography Of The Week, How The Justice System Fails People With Mental Illness, Why Physics Suggests Other Dimensions Exist, Penguins Get Taken On A Field Trip To Chicago's Soldier Field
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HALL OF FAME
The Art Of Building The Impossible
newyorker.com
The carpenter behind some of New York's most elaborate — and expensive — homes.
STAYING ALIVE
How The Justice System Fails People With Mental Illness
theintercept.com
"I found your baby," Michelle Durden recalls the police officer saying after her son went missing. "He's alive. And he's in jail."
RIP TO A LEGEND
Diego Maradona Was A Deeply Human Superstar
gq.com
The Argentinian soccer legend married technical brilliance to wild idiosyncrasy, leaving a legacy almost unparalleled in sports.
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PICTURE THIS
Macy's Parade From Up Above, And More Best Photography Of The Week
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The stories we tell with ink and photos of a quirky world with snails.
EDITOR'S PICK
VIRTUAL INSANITY
Why Physics Suggests Other Dimensions Exist
bbc.co.uk
Theoretical physicists point to the idea that there are other dimensions out there, beyond what we can see. And there could be loads of them, as Melissa Hogenboom explains. A film by Melissa Hogenboom and Pierangelo Pirak.
ENTERTAINMENT STATION
MY DESK, MY BACK
Donald Trump Sat At A Tiny Desk And The Internet Had A Field Day Roasting Him
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Yesterday on Thanksgiving, the internet received the greatest blessing of all: Trump emerged from wherever it is he's been hanging out tweeting about election fraud to give a press briefing… at a very very tiny desk.
BACKGROUND NOISE
11 Great Ways To Pass The Time This Holiday Weekend
vox.com
Got lots of time ahead of you? Here are several great ways to keep yourself entertained.
POKER FACE
'Casino Royale' Director Breaks Down The Legendary Poker Scene
polygon.com
"It's not just the card games — it's the stakes. It's also two guys eye-f*cking one another."
VIDEO OF THE DAY
HAVING A FIELD DAY
Penguins Get Taken On A Field Trip To Chicago's Soldier Field
youtube.com
The Shedd Aquarium brought its resident penguins to a football field and had a blast waddling around.
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The Best Funny And Weird Gifts To Give Friends
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You could, of course, give your loved ones something nice and conventional and, well, boring. Or you could get them something weird.
FROM THE ARCHIVES
'WAITING FOR THE OTHER SHOE TO DROP'
A Family's Race To Cure A Daughter's Genetic Disease (2018)
wired.com
Personalized medicine promised a cure for rare genetic disorders. Now patients and families themselves are trying to make up for its failures.
UN-HACK THE PLANET
How A Grad Student Found Spyware That Could Control Anybody's iPhone from Anywhere In The World (2016)
vanityfair.com
Last summer, Bill Marczak stumbled across a program that could spy on your iPhone's contact list and messages — and even record your calls.
Stay home and keep stuffing your way through the weekend.

Friday 27 November 2020

🔨 How Iceland Hammered COVID With Science

Our Parents Warned Us The Internet Would Break Our Brains. It Broke Theirs Instead, How 'I'm So Excited' Became The Most Ridiculous — And Iconic— 'Saved By The Bell' Moment
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TIME OUT
How 'I'm So Excited' Became The Most Ridiculous — And Iconic— 'Saved By The Bell' Moment
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A fledgling Bayside girl group. Caffeine pills. A breakdown. "Jessie's Song" is more than another episode of the teen classic—it's a pop cultural phenomenon. Ahead of the "Saved by the Bell" reboot, the cast and crew behind the scene recall how it came to be.
IT's NOT US, IT'S YOU
Our Parents Warned Us The Internet Would Break Our Brains. It Broke Theirs Instead
theweek.com
Two decades later, so many boomers that warned millennials to be careful on the internet seem to have forgotten all their own warnings. Their brains are broken, and that destruction is threatening to break our relationships, too.
BJÖRK TO THE FUTURE
How Iceland Hammered COVID With Science
nature.com
The tiny island nation brought huge scientific heft to its attempts to contain and study the coronavirus. Here's what it learnt.
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CIRCLE OF DISTRUST
PAULIE GET YOUR GUN
When Your Circle Small But Y'all Crazy, Clifford The Big Red Dog, And This Week's Other Best Memes, Ranked
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This week, we've got a mysterious monolith in Utah, when your circle small but y'all crazy, Clifford the Big Red Dog and Paulie Walnuts shooting at things.
CAN WE NOT
The Rise And Fall Of Tab
theconversation.com
After surviving the sweetener scares, the iconic diet soda gets canned.
REMOVING THE BARRIERS TO OUTSIDERS
Stop. Coding.
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I want a world in which making is accessible to every single human being. Everyone. Everywhere. I want a world where anybody can dream up an idea and build an app, a product or a platform without having the privilege of access to high-end technology or a premium education.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
SIZE YOU UP
See An Eye-Opening Comparison Of The Largest Living And Extinct Animals
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From insects to toothed whales, here's how extinct members of the species compare to living ones.
IN THE NEWS
Trump Is In No Mood To Concede, But Says Will Leave White House
A Thanksgiving Marked By Surging COVID-19 Cases And Questions About A Leading Vaccine Candidate
Major Shift At Supreme Court On COVID-19 Orders
Dead Mink Infected With A Mutated Form Of COVID-19 Rise From Graves After Mass Culling
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FROM THE ARCHIVES
'WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT?'
Members Only: SopranosCon And The Enduring Afterlife Of Tony Soprano (2019)
theringer.com
Twenty years since it premiered, the HBO mob drama that birthed prestige TV lives on at a New Jersey fan convention that caters to diehards. But with a David Chase prequel film on the way, will the franchise have staying power for a new generation?
HAIL HYDRATION
I Drank A Gallon Of Water A Day. Here's What Happened (2019)
outsideonline.com
Day 2: I did not think it was physically possible to pee more than I did yesterday (21 times), yet here we are, 23 times. Additional instances of bodily rebellion include an afternoon of mild nausea and a slight headache.
Now's the time to sleep off the food coma we have from yesterday.