March 9, 2018 0 The Weekender, March 9, 2018 1) “How to Get Rich Playing Video Games Online” (New Yorker, 21 minutes, November 2017). This [...]
March 8, 2018 0 The Gas Station Where You Can Fill Your Belly Pictured above is the Conoco gas station at 5901 Watauga Road in Watauga, Texas, via Google Maps. In case you [...]
March 6, 2018 0 The Land of the Really Big Vegetables In the summer of 2010, a blogger named Andy Herald posted the pictures above to Facebook. The picture on the [...]
March 5, 2018 0 How the Navy is Becoming Millennial-Friendly Later this month, the United States Navy is expected to commission the USS Colorado, a $2.6 billion nuclear [...]
March 2, 2018 0 The Weekender, March 2, 2018 1) “‘The story of a weird world I was warned never to tell’” (BBC, 13 minutes, [...]
March 1, 2018 0 The Story Behind John Lennon’s Walrus In 1967, the Beatles — already superstars — decided to branch out a bit. Instead of the typical [...]
February 27, 2018 0 Bovine Friends Forever? You don’t need to be a teenager to know that BFF means “Best Friends Forever,” and that it often [...]
February 26, 2018 0 The Problem with a No-Pancakes Christmas When it’s three in the morning and you’re hungry in America, pancakes may be a good option. No, [...]
February 23, 2018 0 The Weekender, February 23, 2018 1) “The Encyclopedia of the Missing” (Longreads, 17 minutes, January 2018). From the outside, [...]
February 20, 2018 0 Proof that No One Really Likes Town Meetings Buried inside of central North Carolina is a small town named Seagrove. It’s home to about 225 people and [...]