More UFOs Than Ever Before

America had its head broken open during World War II, and out came the visions. Visions of global power, infinite markets, ideological struggle, and exotic flying machines.

from Pocket https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/08/26/more-ufos-than-ever-before/
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Leviathans in the Harbor

This article is also available in audio format. Listen now, download, or subscribe to “Hakai Magazine Audio Edition” through your favorite podcast app. They first noticed the body when the Grand Princess loomed toward the dock in Ketchikan, Alaska.

from Pocket https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/leviathans-in-the-harbor/
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Twista's Sign Language Interpreter Absolutely Steals The Show With Her Signing Of His Rapidfire Rap

Our hats off to Amber Galloway Gallego, a sign language interpreter who specializes in interpretation of concerts. She deserves a frigging award for this performance alone.

from Pocket http://digg.com/2019/twista-sign-language-interpreter-amazing
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Cultural Regions Of America, Visualized

With a nation over 327 million people, the United States has many distinct regional pockets throughout the country. Redditor Inzitarie did his best to create a map that delineated some of the most distinct "cultural regions" throughout America.

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This Twitter Thread Of A User Interacting With Amazon's 'Fulfillment Center Ambassadors' Is Deeply Unsettling

Here at Digg, we have some thoughts about Brand Twitter, but whatever issues we have with Clorox sending a vaguely racist tweet or Burger King using depression as a marketing prop, nothing we've seen is quite as unsettling as this thread of a Twitter user interacting with seven (seven!) of Amazon's

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The Rat Spill

This article is also available in audio format. Listen now, download, or subscribe to “Hakai Magazine Audio Edition” through your favorite podcast app. On a late-summer morning in 2018, Paul Melovidov walked into the freezer section of the Trident Seafoods processing plant.

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Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company in Tech

On a bright Monday in January 2017, at 2:30 in the afternoon, about a thousand Google employees—horrified, alarmed, and a little giddy—began pouring out of the company's offices in Mountain View, California.

from Pocket https://www.wired.com/story/inside-google-three-years-misery-happiest-company-tech/
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We Tried to Do Vanlife Right. It Was a Disaster.

A few hours after I bought a 1995 Ford E-350 Econoline van for $2,000 in the fall of 2017, the ABS light lit up on the dashboard. That night, I had a dream: My fiancée, Rachel, and I were driving downhill on a steep, winding road when the brakes went out.

from Pocket https://www.outsideonline.com/2399404/van-life-difficulties
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Won’t You Be My Neighbor: An Anti-Hate Pop Culture Syllabus

The closing fight scene of the 1988 martial arts movie Bloodsport has the Muscles from Brussels (Jean-Claude Van Damme) growling prehistorically, flexing his pecs, and kicking like Nureyev as he beats his Asian opponent while blinded by dust.

from Pocket https://longreads.com/2019/08/09/anti-hate-pop-culture-syllabus/
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Jeffrey Epstein, accused sex trafficker, is dead by apparent suicide, found in his Manhattan jail cell

Attorney General William Barr said he was "appalled to learn that Jeffrey Epstein was found dead" and that his death "raises serious questions that must be answered."Aug. 10, 2019, 1:19 PM UTC / Updated Aug.

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The New Ruins of the Melting Alps

Photographer Tomaso Clavarino has been traveling to Italy’s Alpine glaciers to ski since he was three years old. “It’s a place I know very well,” he told me over the phone. “It’s how I knew it was changing.”

from Pocket https://newrepublic.com/article/154261/climate-change-italy-alps-ruins-ski-resorts
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The Surreal Story of a Trump-Loving Artist’s War With the Smithsonian

On a December morning in 2016, Julian Raven was digging around in his basement in upstate New York when his phone buzzed to life. It was a DC number, for the National Portrait Gallery. It had been three weeks since Donald Trump’s victory; seven weeks remained before the inauguration.

from Pocket https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/08/04/julian-raven-trump-artist-national-portrait-gallery-smithsonian/
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A Donkey And The Little Girl Who Raised Him Have A Beautifully Emotional Reunion

Twitter user Andrew Zimmern unearthed this amazing video of an emotional reunion between a donkey and the little girl that raised him. The two have a beautiful embrace and the donkey has a very enthusiastic reaction. Be sure to have some tissues handy because this one is a tear jerker!

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The trick that makes you overspend

Like many of the now infamous cognitive biases that plague our thinking, the decoy effect was first documented in the 1980s, and the best way to understand these experiments is to consider an example. Imagine you are choosing flights from the following options.

from Pocket https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20190801-the-trick-that-makes-you-overspend
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Are You Rich? This Income-Rank Quiz Might Change How You See Yourself

Answer these five questions to get a better sense of where your expectations meet reality. The concept of “rich” is more complicated than this, of course.

from Pocket https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/01/upshot/are-you-rich.html
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This Is the Beginning of the End of the Beef Industry

There’s a famous Gandhi aphorism about how movements progress: “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

from Pocket https://www.outsideonline.com/2399736/impossible-foods-beyond-meat-alt-meat
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We Asked 20 Brewers: What Are the Worst Trends in Beer Right Now?

Not all beer trends are created equal. Some have staying power and become national or global phenomena, while others fizzle quickly. There are several movements coursing through American breweries that are worth celebrating, but, for now, let’s focus on the absolute worst.

from Pocket https://vinepair.com/articles/20-worst-beer-trends-craft/
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Crowdsourcing Justice

It took only a handful of people to wrongly convict Ed Ates of murder. It took an army to free him from prison. Now comes the hard part.

from Pocket https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/truth-justice-podcast-army-free-ed-ates/
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Entitled Tesla Jackass Parks on Stranger's Lawn, Steals Electricity for 12 Hours

There’s sort of a stereotype of Tesla owners having this elevated sense of self-worth and entitlement since they believe that the fact that they drive a fast, luxurious electric car means they’re saving the world for the rest of us drooling simpletons.

from Pocket https://jalopnik.com/entitled-tesla-jackass-parks-on-strangers-lawn-steals-1836730035
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The Last Days of John Allen Chau

On November 21, 2018, Dependra Pathak, director general of police in the Andamans and Nicobars, an archipelago of paradise islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean, issued a press release headed “Death of US National.

from Pocket https://www.outsideonline.com/2400030/john-allen-chau-life-death-north-sentinel
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