Scientists identify a green gas used on Portland protesters as hexite—”extremely dangerous to most forms of life.”
↩︎ Future Human
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Perhaps the most 2020 of holiday gifts: a jigsaw puzzle of endlessly repeating jigsaw puzzles.
↩︎ Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives
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If you’re locked down and the worst you’re suffering is boredom, perhaps try teaching your dog, cat, or horse to talk. You wouldn’t be the only one.
A film by the McGloughlin Brothers—you’ll remember them for “Repetition”—to illustrate how development and destruction go hand in hand.
Twenty-five news photographs from the year that shall not be named.
↩︎ The Atlantic
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RIP, Hamish MacInnes, renowned mountaineer and inventor of both the first all-steel ice ax and Monty Python’s “bridge of death.”
↩︎ The Washington Pos…
New installations in Marfa, Texas, address the trouble with art tourism during the Covid period.
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Internet sleuths try to piece together a mystery couple’s trip (with a dachshund) to Italy and Switzerland in the 1950s.
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A dog lover wonders if letting her pet share her bed worsens her sleep. The truth is, it depends.
↩︎ The Atlantic
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Porridge and Eleanor are slender and fancy-looking, with perfect waddly red combs… But it turns out that they are both bitches and tyrannical peckers, with a taste for violence against the bottom-rung girls.
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