What was “crossing?” Purportedly a 19th-century medical treatment, perhaps fictional, of taking sick people to the zoo.
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“For legal purposes, I’m not sure what to say. I don’t want to implicate myself in something that’s not true. I think someone’s got it misconstrued. Parts of it are right, parts of it are wro…
Interview with finance memelord Litquidity Capital, who recently quit banking to enlarge his following from “the Brads and Chads.”
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Loose-fitting jeans are the trend for Gen Z, but skinny jeans still have the largest market share at 34% of total jean sales.
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Los Angeles is experiencing 24 fires per day related to homelessness, 54% of all fires the fire department responds to.
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A retrospective of the flamboyant 1980s architecture of Helmut Jahn, who died this week at 81.
↩︎ The Guardian
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“I don’t know if it’s true or not, but I like it”—I kept coming back to Gramling’s words. That comment was revealing. Many places in the South claim to be the originator of Memorial Day…
“Ten of the Louisiana Dept. of Corrections’ 12 physicians…have had their medical licenses restricted or suspended.”
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Looking back at 40 years of all the ways our bodies have been destroyed by personal computers.
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How a 1996 lawsuit against AOL became the go-to precedent whenever someone attempts to sue a digital platform for defamation.
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