November 30, 2021
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“In 1993, a SWAT team equipped with night-vision goggles and assault rifles surrounded Mel Gibson’s mansion under the cover of darkness. They burst into the…”
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‘House of Gucci’ Review: Murder, Italian-Style
“Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Al Pacino and Jared Leto serve up a heaping platter of prosciutto in Ridley Scott’s tale of family treachery. Send any friend a story As…”
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The Underappreciated Genius of William Lindsay Gresham’s Nightmare Alley
“Many who read this will have read Nightmare Alley . But it is to be hoped that others will be drawn to read this singular work for the first time. I envy the…”
November 22, 2021
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The Decline and Fall of the Galactic Empire
“This article contains spoilers through the first season of Foundation . Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series is perhaps the definitive expression of mid-century…”
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Why You Gravitate to Puzzles When You’re Depressed
“As the summer of 2021 dragged on, my mental health waned toward depression—and I’m certainly not the only one struggling right now. Along with other depressed…”
November 13, 2021
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“There was a serendipitous overlap between my Twitter feed and this newsletter earlier this week: as I was posting the first part of my exchange with Chris Dixon…”
November 9, 2021
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Why are all the movies in black and white?
“Clockwise from top left: Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand in The Tragedy of Macbeth ; Timothée Chalamet in The French Dispatch ; Gunda ; Ruth Negga and…”
November 7, 2021
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“Ever since I entered what can generously be called my “mid-30s,” doctors have asked about my pregnancy plans at every appointment. Because I’m career-minded and…”
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“Getty Images Last week the Salt Lake County Department of Public Health posted a lighthearted graphic on Twitter, purporting to show Covid vaccination rates by…”
November 5, 2021
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Rocky exoplanets are even stranger than we thought
“Rocky debris, the pieces of a former rocky planet that has broken up, spiral inward toward a white dwarf in this illustration. Studying the atmospheres of white…”
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Opinion | The Mystery of ‘Havana Syndrome’
“Serge Schmemann The Mystery of ‘Havana Syndrome’ Nov. 3, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET Credit… Ibrahim Rayintakath Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10…”
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The Enormous Hole That Whaling Left Behind
“In the 20th century, the largest animals that have ever existed almost stopped existing. Baleen whales—the group that includes blue, fin, and humpback…”
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We’re Heading Straight for a Demi-Armageddon
“The COP26 international climate-change negotiations have just begun in Glasgow, Scotland, and the vibes are … ambivalent. The leaders of Russia and China…”
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What If You Could Make Your Cat Hypoallergenic?
“The first thing to know is that truly allergen-free cats are a myth. Sorry. That’s because all cats—longhair, shorthair, no hair—shed a pernicious little…”
November 3, 2021
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How seriously should we take Jon Stewart?
“Jon Stewart on the set of The Daily Show in 2015. Brad Barket for Comedy Central/Getty Images Jon Stewart is back, and it’s a little bit weird. Stewart’s new TV…”
October 30, 2021
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The Real Reason Facebook Changed Its Name
“Meta—the company formerly known as Facebook—desperately wants you to believe that it is going to put the future on your face. That was the gist of Mark…”
October 18, 2021
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12 Predictions for the Future of Music
“Record labels will gradually lose both the ability and desire to develop new artists—there simply won’t be enough profit in young talent to justify the large…”
October 15, 2021
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Why the best aliens are just a little bit human
“Becky Chambers is one of the few authors whose every book I gobble up greedily. The sci-fi writer launched her career in 2012 by raising money on Kickstarter ,…”
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A World Without the Traffic Cop
“O n a hot June evening in Berkeley, California, last year, while his groceries sweated on the couch, 24-year-old Darrell Owens sent a tweet that changed his…”
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The Great Resignation Is Accelerating
“I first noticed that something weird was happening this past spring. In April, the number of workers who quit their job in a single month broke an all-time U.S.…”
October 5, 2021
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Taking the ‘Shame Part’ Out of Female Anatomy
“Credit… Simone Noronha The Great Read Anatomists have bid farewell to “pudendum,” but other questionable terms remain. Credit… Simone Noronha By Sept. 21,…”
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Students who grew up with search engines might change STEM education forever
“Catherine Garland, an astrophysicist, started seeing the problem in 2017. She was teaching an engineering course, and her students were using simulation…”
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Jonathan Franzen Finally Stopped Trying Too Hard
“J onathan Franzen writes big books about small lives. This may sound like a curious characterization of a writer who has sweated to position himself as an…”
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What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, & WhatsApp? – Krebs on Security
“Facebook and its sister properties Instagram and WhatsApp are suffering from ongoing, global outages. We don’t yet know why this happened, but the how is clear:…”
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Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet
““Facebook can’t be down, can it?”, we thought, for a second. Today at 1651 UTC, we opened an internal incident entitled “Facebook DNS lookup returning SERVFAIL”…”
October 4, 2021
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Why The Supreme Court Probably Doesn’t Care What Most Americans Think About Abortion Or Gun Rights
“The Supreme Court is more conservative than it’s been in almost a century . Its new term begins today, and by next June, when the term ends, Americans might…”
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Is the Three-Minute Song Bad for Music?
“I discuss the unanticipated consequences of the 3-minute song in a new video (transcript below). The Honest Broker is a reader-supported guide to music, books,…”
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Chart of the week: Chunky trucks
“Ford F-150 on a dealer’s lot. Note the toddler-sized blind spot in front of the grill. (Getty Images) From 2000 to 2019, the average weight of a vehicle…”
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A Secret State Department Report Says Microwaves Didn’t Cause “Havana Syndrome”
“A declassified State Department report obtained by BuzzFeed News dismissed the theory that microwave weapons are behind the mysterious neurological injuries in…”
October 3, 2021
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“Matter A new study suggests that a single genetic mutation helps explain why monkeys have tails, while apes and people do not. A team of scientists say they…”