April 27, 2018 0 The Weekender, April 27, 2018 1) “The Maraschino Mogul’s Secret Life” (The New Yorker, 23 minutes, April 2018). The [...]
April 26, 2018 0 The Swimming Pool Hiding in the Middle of the Desert Pictured above is — or was — a swimming pool, five feet wide, five feet deep, and eleven feet [...]
April 24, 2018 0 The Fort That Would Have Never Worked For more than 200 years, the United States and Great Britain have been at peace with one another if not [...]
April 23, 2018 0 The Battle over Malibu’s Beaches The city of Malibu, California is best known for its fantastic climate and a 21-mile stretch of beaches. [...]
April 20, 2018 0 The Weekender, April 20, 2018 1)”The Quest for the Next Billion Dollar Color” (Bloomberg Businessweek, 14 minutes, April 2018). [...]
April 19, 2018 0 The Guy Who Named Himself Meow But Failed to Turn Himself Into a Cyborg If you were writing a techno-dystopian novel, you’d consider starting with a future where governments [...]
April 17, 2018 0 When the NBA Doubled Its Money As pro basketball players go, Eric Money is as forgettable as they come. Here’s the entirety of his [...]
April 16, 2018 0 The Gross, Metallic Secret Behind America’s Westward Expansion In 1804, a pair of American explorers, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, led an expedition from Illinois to [...]
April 13, 2018 0 The Weekender, April 13, 2018 1) “Friday the 13th isn’t unlucky. It’s a meme disguised as superstition” (Vox, 7 minutes, [...]
April 11, 2018 0 Why You Should Whistle While You Work For most of us, idly whistling while at work isn’t such a great idea. Not only does it potentially distract [...]