Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Ben There, Done That

A 200-Year-Old Gift From Benjamin Franklin Made Boston And Philadelphia A Fortune, 'Natural' Doesn't Always Mean 'Good', Journalist Goes To A South Korean Love Motel, Tries To Find All The Spycams Hidden Inside
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MONEY TALKS
THAT'S INFLATION FOR YA
A 200-Year-Old Gift From Benjamin Franklin Made Boston And Philadelphia A Fortune
mentalfloss.com
When Benjamin Franklin died in 1790, he left a small sum of money to the cities of Boston and Philadelphia with one condition: that they not spend it in full for 200 years.
NO WIGGLE ROOM
How Rigid Is The Middle Class In The US, Really?
pudding.cool
Exploring the economic mobility of 11,172 middle class families over a 50 year period.
GREEN FLEX
Who's Paying $5,000 For One Houseplant? More People Than You'd Think
vice.com
A record-breaking auction with an anonymous buyer has pushed houseplant hysteria into an even bigger luxury market.
SEEING THROUGH THE TV
The Making Of Ellen DeGeneres, The Nicest Person On Television
jezebel.com
In recent weeks, a hairline fracture in DeGeneres's reputation is beginning to widen into an uncontrollable chasm, rending apart a career she's so tightly rebuilt.
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THE BIGGER PICTURE
SOAPS AND DREAMS
'Natural' Doesn't Always Mean 'Good'
reallifemag.com
Products like Mrs. Meyer's soap encourage you to feel good when there is no reason to.
BASKET CASE
Why Are The NBA's Ratings Going Down?
slate.com
A conversation with the Athletic's Ethan Strauss.
'THE GRAND OLD MELTDOWN'
What Happens When A Party Gives Up On Ideas?
politico.com
The party is now defined primarily by its appetite for conflict, even when that conflict serves no obvious policy goal.
HOWDY, SPORTS FANS
Here Are The Greatest Novels Ever Written About Every Sport
lithub.com
And why there should be so many more.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
THIS IS UPSETTING
Journalist Goes To A South Korean Love Motel, Tries To Find All The Spycams Hidden Inside
youtube.com
Molka, the capturing of voyeuristic images and videos via hidden cameras, is on the rise in South Korea, and it's disturbing how many places in a motel room can host a spy camera.
IN THE NEWS
Arsonists Set Fires As Wisconsin City Rages Over Police Shooting Of Black Man
Business Partner Of Falwells Says Affair With Evangelical Power Couple Spanned Seven Years
Fierce Storm Surge Feared As Laura Bears Down On Gulf Coast
Kremlin: Navalny Poisoning Accusations 'Empty Noise'
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FROM THE ARCHIVES
LIVING ON THE EDGE
The People Who Moved To Chernobyl (2018)
bbc.co.uk
The Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986 left a ring of ghost villages as residents fled, fearing radiation poisoning. But now people are choosing to live in the crumbling houses on the edge of the exclusion zone.
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Solving A Century-Old Typographical Mystery (2016)
theatlantic.com
How a strange face in a random 19th-century newspaper ad became a portal to a forgotten moment in ASCII art history.
It's okay not to be okay sometimes.

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