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Dan Weiss
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On football and independent bookselling. Bolivian salt flats, way more interesting than it sounds! The evolutionary benefits of chronic depression. Life on mars? probably! The film version of the Wizard of Oz turns 70 this year, some dudes want to…
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The 10 geekiest tattoos. “An essay on the horrors of the Port Authority Bus Terminal, in the form of a Choose Your Own Adventure® story” from Rudolph Delson. It is hard to have babies in outer space. Mythical creatures vendiagram-ed.…
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Proof that everything that could possibly exist does somewhere: Life takes you inside a fish hospital. Library themed ice cream? It turns out that coin flips aren’t fair at all. Dang, I guess I should have gone to grad school…
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The LA Times looks back on “Day of the Locust.” For some reason, placebos seem to be getting more effective. Take THAT science and medical advances! Atlas Obscura is a wiki-type set for all the world’s oddities, curios, and tourist…
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Howard Hughes’ un-flyable plane makes for a pretty great boat. One bank is letting people with good credit deposit checks by phone. Ohio is a piano for some reason. Trying to photograph Raymond Chandler’s LA. New Scientist on bomb-throwing deep…
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Back in the saddle When Journey Round My Skull decides to clear out its image vaults, we are all the better for it. A plant that eats rats. Yes. Plant. Eats. Rat. Historic bridges of the United States. (via Metafilter)…
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Dan and Stephen are both going to be out of town next week. It’s ok, we’ll make it through this. A little hometown pride: San Francisco turning toxic site into UN Global Warming Center. These things are sort of lame,…
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Is your time too valuable to spend doing errands and chores (obviously if you are reading this it is)? Might we suggest “instead men?” “How Is America Going to End?“ The inside scoop from the world’s leading futurologists. Plus “Choose…
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Seven unmade Kubrick movies. Kitten calender graffiti. Sorry, let’s try and smarten this thing up: a concise history of light and particles. Slate on the history of airport design. Instructattoos. I like every single thing about this link: Swedish vintage…
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An Illustrated History of the War on Drugs. (via TPM) In case you’ve ever wonder what has more calories, polar bear or grizzly. Check out this sweet fence! We don’t usually do legos, but sometimes you need to fill in…