Conor Friedersdorf: Australia’s emergency restrictions, incredibly successful against Covid, have also rendered it a police state.
↩︎ The Atlantic
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Conor Friedersdorf: Australia’s emergency restrictions, incredibly successful against Covid, have also rendered it a police state.
↩︎ The Atlantic
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The world’s largest “direct air capture” machine—essentially, a giant carbon-slurping device—opens today in Iceland.
↩︎ Quartz
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What’s wrong with book reviews today? Perhaps that they’re “first and foremost an audition,” and not meant for readers at all.
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A man wearing a tuxedo, with long fingernails and what appears to be a stiff martini, plays Ennio Morricone’s “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” on classical guitar.
A man wearing a tuxedo, with long fingernails and what appears to be a stiff martini, plays Ennio Morricone’s “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” on classical guitar.
About 11% of Covid sufferers acquire parosmia: a distortion of smell that can make food taste like garbage.
↩︎ The Cut
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“Throwing the mace to the floor.” Accounting for every apology made on the floor of the UK’s House of Commons since 1974.
↩︎ House of Commons Library
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“Throwing the mace to the floor.” Accounting for every apology made on the floor of the UK’s House of Commons since 1974.
↩︎ House of Commons Library
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A former Walmart executive unveils plans for “Telosa,” a sustainable metropolis that he wants to build in the desert.
↩︎ USA Today
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