Liberal Vermont loves its Trump-loathing Republican governor.
I asked Scott why he hadn’t become an independent. “That would probably be the easier path, to be quite honest with you,” he said. “But if you look at the longevity of the Republican Party, there&r…
A day in the life of Joe Biden, who has a penchant for quirky headlines like “Japanese woman is 119 years old.”
A day in the life of Joe Biden, who has a penchant for quirky headlines like “Japanese woman is 119 years old.”
↩︎ The Washington Post
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Zak Cheney-Rice: The catastrophe isn’t the rate at which the police kill. The catastrophe is the police.
Zak Cheney-Rice: The catastrophe isn’t the rate at which the police kill. The catastrophe is the police.
↩︎ New York Magazine
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From photographer Annie Lai, a series about young Chinese women living away from home.
From photographer Annie Lai, a series about young Chinese women living away from home.
↩︎ Annie Lai
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Drinking tequila with Albert Einstein (straight, brain chaser).
Somehow we missed this last summer: the story, tucked away in a personal essay in Bookforum about angels and prophets, suggesting that teachers at the University of Kansas do tequila shots with slivers of Einstein’s brain.
When Einstein died, in 1955, his brain was removed during an unsanctioned autopsy at a hospital in Princeton. Later, at the University of Pennsylvania, a pathologist named Thomas Stoltz Harvey sliced it up for research purposes but kept some of the slivers for himself. In 1988, Harvey—who’d since been stripped of his medical license—moved to Lawrence, home of the University of Kansas, where he presented one of the slivers to local author William S. Burroughs, after whose death in 1997 it passed into the possession of . . . I’m going to stop now, because I don’t want to get anyone in trouble. Let’s just say that when I was in Lawrence, teaching at KU, this was a thing that still happened, a hazing that was also an homage: You scooped the bit of Einstein’s brain out of the jar and shook off the excess formaldehyde; then, you put some salt in the crook of your thumb and licked it, after which you took down a shot of cheap room-temperature tequila and sucked on the brain-bit until your mouth went numb—until the formaldehyde paralyzed your lips and tongue and you couldn’t be understood, you couldn’t even feel yourself trying to make language.
True? Wish it were true? If only the dead could speak.
What a car you build yourself might look like from IKEA—a DIY kit, with 374 pieces, that would cost around €5,300.
What a car you build yourself might look like from IKEA—a DIY kit, with 374 pieces, that would cost around €5,300.
↩︎ Connexion France…
A ride-along review of the new electric F150. “The quiet was almost eerie pulling three tons up a 25% grade.”
A ride-along review of the new electric F150. “The quiet was almost eerie pulling three tons up a 25% grade.”
↩︎ USA Today
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“Carlsen never rents a movie twice, he just grabs popcorn and close his eyes.”
World chess champion Magnus Carlsen recognizes famous matches from history from a single position.
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Some things in life are unknowable. Like this chair.
Some things in life are unknowable. Like this chair.
↩︎ The Verge
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