In 2021, cannabis sales in the United States ($24-$27 billion) beat Starbucks ($20.5 billion). Cigarettes? Over $50 billion.
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The common complaint is that even straight reporting still betrays some opinion, subtext always strains at the seams. But in stories so deeply unimportant, that can be nice.
↩︎ Gawker
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One housing style that hasn’t disappeared in Lagos, Nigeria: the Face-Me-I-Face-You, originally built for a rapidly growing city.
↩︎ Bloomberg
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During the last two decades, there has been a resurgence—seemingly post-colonial—of master planning in African cities.
↩︎ The Conversation
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A brief history of grotto design in garden architecture, before they became kitsch.
↩︎ Public Domain Review
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A new paper theorizes the Big Bang created symmetrical universes where time is bi-directional—which could explain dark matter.
↩︎ Popular Mechanics
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A wonderful, interactive explanation of how mechanical watches work.
↩︎ Bartosz Ciechanowski
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Self-promotion in electronic music has become so overbearing that new DJs are turning to a tried-and-true art form: shitposting.
↩︎ Resident Advisor
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The CDC purchased location data for tens of millions of phones to see whether people were complying with Covid lockdowns.
↩︎ Motherboard
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“They jumped on the bandwagon of how I have become public enemy number one of the far right,” Fauci told BuzzFeed News. “If you engage and try and push back on that, it very often only gives it legs. And…