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A documentary for a quiet Monday evening at home, in which The Histocrat explores "the unsolved enigma that is the Voynich Manuscript, and its often equally bizarre history."

H/t Drawing Links

Feb 10, 2020
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We’ve never seen a Black man this powerful this bent on harming other Black folks. He’s alien to me because I love my people and I can see in his hardened heart he’s against us.

Mitchell S. Jackson tries to understand Clarence Thomas by visiting where he grew up and where he lives now.
↩︎ Esquire
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The trials of operating the country's first Black-owned outdoor retailer. “Why leave Texas to live an outdoor lifestyle?"
↩︎ Texas Monthly 2d
From Caustic Cover Critic: comics "reliably attributed to" Patricia Highsmith, who worked as a comic book writer in the 1940s.
↩︎ Google Drive 2d

What are the brand values of Fancy Feast? I would say that it is fancy. But it is also surprisingly hard to find at the Petco in Union Square, which is where I went after my own fancy feast, because the event’s parting gift bag, while immense, somehow did not actually include cat food.

Choire Sicha eats at the Fancy Feast restaurant: “I figured I might as well get a jump on the trend.”
↩︎ Grub Street
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Data is sparse, people with Locked-in syndrome often report being happy and fulfilled—the difference is often down to caregivers.
↩︎ Undark 2d
An August 1977 Amazing Spider-Man comic inspired a New Mexico judge to create the first prisoner ankle monitor.
↩︎ Gizmodo 2d
Machine learning in science is riddled with errors—which is especially bad considering AI's tendency to grab headlines.
↩︎ WIRED 2d
"It’s a rare retail store... to appear on a US driver’s license." How the Bass Pro Shops pyramid became a Memphis icon.
↩︎ Outside 2d
Pat Finn: The world does not need "more monuments to the power of capital," even extraordinary buildings like Dubai' Burj Khalifa.
↩︎ Architizer 4d
From 2020, why are K-pop bands so big? Because fans like bigger groups, in part because they love reality survival shows
↩︎ The Pudding 4d

You can’t pretend that Lent, 40 days where you decide to not eat chocolate or whatever because it’s your vice, is not just a baby version of the 30 days a year I spend starving myself during Ramadan.

Catholicism may be the New Right’s hot new club, but it’s nothing compared to Islam. “Call me when you’re ready for Hajj.”
↩︎ Gawker
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A data-mining recipe for any journalists wanting to write a story about young Americans' migration patterns.
↩︎ Source 4d
For poor kids, living where folks have more friendships that cut across class lines majorly boosts how much they earn as adults.
↩︎ The New York Times 4d
Coming soon: oceanfront living where you live, ice-berg style, atop the ocean. Pods starting at $295,000. Ocean not included.
↩︎ Uncrate 6d

“Normally, the streets are so noisy and you have to watch out because drivers are going to kill you with their cars.” “We created a ‘walking’ forest and people want us to leave it in place.”

The Dutch city of Leeuwarden is moving 1,000 trees across town very slowly by hand.
↩︎ The Guardian
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From May, a reporter investigates his charismatic journalism teacher and finds him repeatedly grooming female students for sex.
↩︎ yahoo!news 6d
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