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Saturday, 14 September 2019

Jonah And The Fail

This Week's Funniest Memes, Ranked, The Grandmaster Diet: How To Lose Weight While Barely Moving, I Faked My Way as an Instagram Poet, and It Went Bizarrely Well, and more.
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CULTURAL IMPACT FACTOR
CALLOWAY, SPILLED CAFE, CULTURAL CACHE
This Week's Funniest Memes, Ranked
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It's an internet fight and only the funniest memes will survive. This week's challengers? Jonah Hill's dropped coffee, Caroline Calloway's Yale plates, and cultural impact graphs.
FREAKS AND GEEKS, WALKS AND TALKS
'Freaks and Geeks' Vs. 'The West Wing': TV At A Crossroads In 1999
www.rollingstone.com
How two iconic series debuting days apart — one a long-running crowd-pleaser, the other a cult favorite — represented television's past and its future.
ROSES ARE RED, STANDARDS ARE MOOT
I Faked My Way As An Instagram Poet, And It Went Bizarrely Well
vice.com
I decided to find out whether Instagram poetry took real talent, or if the whole thing is a sham, by becoming the worst poet the internet has ever seen.
JUST DESERTS
The Suburbanites Making The Desert Bloom With McMansions
wired.com
Growing up in the 1960s and '70s, Steven B. Smith couldn't wait to escape the small, nearly all-Mormon town of Springville, Utah. In those Cold War years, many Mormons believed the apocalypse was imminent, in the form of a nuclear holocaust.
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These Ex-Under Armour Guys Are Making The Best Jeans Of 2019
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After years in athletic apparel, Revtown's founders took the best parts of workout gear — comfort, flexibility and durability — and applied them to denim. The result? Crazy comfort and solid style at a killer price.
PICTURE THIS
PICTURE THIS
The 'Vertical Graveyards' Of Hong Kong, And More Of The Best Photography Of The Week
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The dangers of the New York City Subway in 1980, London's shades of gray and other best photos of the week.
HOW YA FEELIN'?
SUCH NOT SO GREAT HEIGHTS
Hypoxia City
vis.sciencemag.org
At 5100 meters' elevation, a Peruvian gold mining town is the world's highest settlement — and a good place to study how life at extremely low oxygen levels ravages the body.
THE BRAIN *IS* THE STRONGEST MUSCLE
The Grandmaster Diet: How To Lose Weight While Barely Moving
espn.com
You wouldn't think that chess players, who sit for hours on end and only extend their arms from time to time, would struggle with weight loss. But they do. Inside the very real, very bizarre metabolic phenomenon gripping chess.
DOES NOT COST PEANUTS
How Peanuts Became A $4,200 Drug
theatlantic.com
A new, billion-dollar pharmaceutical to treat peanut allergies is up for approval. It's simply peanut flour.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
END OF THE LINE
Fisherman Tries To Reel In Fish, Ends Up With A Catch Way More Than He Bargained For
rumble.com
Some catches you hold on to, and some you most definitely should let go — like this one.
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Reel in the big one: a Saturday afternoon nap.

Friday, 13 September 2019

Immoral Kombat

The Blood That Forever Changed The Video Game Industry, Inside The Most Brutal Dictatorship You've Never Heard Of, Scientists Discover Huge, Mysterious Radio Structures At The Heart Of The Milky Way, and more.
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DARK PLACES
IMMORTAL KOMBAT
The Blood That Forever Changed The Video Game Industry
polygon.com
Mortal Kombat's gore was a sensitive subject for American society at large. The moment word of fatalities spread beyond arcades and into schools, homes, and churches, parents and politicians went on the warpath.
NO SMOOTH SAILING
Dead Reckoning
damninteresting.com
The 18th century misadventures of HMS Wager and her reluctant crew.
FORGOTTEN IN BURUNDI
Inside The Most Brutal Dictatorship You've Never Heard Of
www.gq-magazine.co.uk
Burundi in East Africa is one of the world's poorest countries – and perhaps the most ignored. The scene of historic ethnic conflict, its messianic president offers stability to an international community terrified of another genocide in the region. But the police state he has finessed now tortures, rapes and kills with near impunity.
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FALSE PREMISES
DRESSED TO IMPRESS
A Michigan High School Let Seniors Take Their Student ID Photos Dressed Up As Pop Culture Characters, And They Did Not Disappoint
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The Senior class at North Farmington High School in Michigan have an yearly tradition where they take ID photos dressed up in tribute to their favorite characters in TV, movies and memes.
THE LONGEST CON OF THEM ALL
The Distinctly American Ethos Of The Grifter
nytimes.com
As stories of theft and deception have come to dominate the cultural conversation, it can often feel like grift is a modern phenomenon — but it isn't.
SPACE REVIVED THE RADIO STAR
Scientists Discover Huge, Mysterious Radio Structures At The Heart Of The Milky Way
vice.com
"These enormous bubbles have until now been hidden by the glare of extremely bright radio emission from the center of the galaxy."
'I FEEL CHEATED'
You Donated To Kids With Cancer. This Vegas Telemarketer Cashed In
publicintegrity.org
Inside the machine that turns charitable and political contributions into paydays.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
WHERE WE'RE GOING, WE DON'T NEED RULES
Owner Tests Whether Cats Can Get Through Increasingly Smaller Cardboard Openings, Does Not Expect The Surprise Conclusion
youtube.com
The experiment was meant to test whether a cat's body can really squeeze through a small space once the head gets through. It did not account for said cat revolting.
IN THE NEWS
Winners And Losers Of The Democratic Debate
California Just Banned Private Prisons, Including ICE Detention Facilities
Google Earth Helps Find Remains Of Man Missing For Decades In Florida
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