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Found in an air duct at a former Illinois high school, a cache of stolen wallets give a glimpse of teen life in the 1940s.
↩︎ Atlas Obscura Jul 12, 2019
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The University of Oxford has a bell that’s been ringing almost continuously since 1840, about 10 billion rings so far.
↩︎ Futility Closet 11h
A popular startup in Chicago's underserved communities: microenterprise snowball stands and candy stores.
↩︎ NPR 17h

“We are basically fucked,” Yang said, sitting in the Suburban, earlier in the day, not too long after we met, “unless we un-fuck ourselves, systematically and collectively.”

Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang is surging, in part for speakly bluntly and bleakly about American self-destruction.
↩︎ Politico Magazine
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An updated study of the "10,000-hour rule" finds that practice makes you better, but not necessarily better than somebody else.
↩︎ The Guardian 18h

Californians will have to forge a new relationship with their forest, and see the Sierra... as a landscape that should be tended like a garden rather than harvested as a crop or protected as a wilderness.

Prescribed burns are the best tool for stopping megafires, but they seem at odds with both logging and conservation.
↩︎ The New Yorker
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"In 1981, the word 'Montana' was added, and in 1985, it was specified that Helvetica Bold be used." Guidelines for US flags.
↩︎ USflags.design 19h

A poem about freedom.

From "Freedom" by Nabanita Kanungo, in the latest issue of Poetry.

It would try to lisp a dumbness sometimes—
the language of welts rising slowly on the panes,
a cracked blur of riot-torn air,
confused which year it was.

The last time it made a sound was when
it crinkled on its way into a bin,
a great plot of justice. I wasn’t born, then;
my father was.

It must have been whole once,
for you could still conceive it like a dream,
a gloriously illegitimate thing, though;
until a country was torn out of its heart one day
and you saw its impaled ghost in the moon.

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Reacting to general distrust, CEOs want to embrace the public good—20 years after they anointed shareholders king.
↩︎ Fortune 1d

The Vessel Orchestra we mentioned previously has closed, but thankfully it's been preserved on video: a sound installation at the Met where objects were miked to reveal a kind of hidden life, at least musically.

Oliver Beer, a British artist and composer who works in sculpture, video art, and music, put his ear to hundreds of objects from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection of ceramic jars, clay pots, bronze busts, Qing dynasty vases, and contemporary art pottery. From them, he chose 32 that each “sing” a specific note in the Western scale. 

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Hong Kong's billionaire class was silent about the protests until one took out newspaper ads—with cryptic messages, netizens say.
↩︎ Language Log 1d
Hamburg, Germany upgrades its flood prevention system with a classy promenade by Zaha Hadid Architects.
↩︎ dezeen 1d

What seems to be the city’s second best hotel is less than half the price it would be in Western Europe.  For better or worse, e-scooters and bike lanes are everywhere.  The city has a lively concert life, even in August.

Where to be in Europe this summer, especially for any politicians looking for nationalist inspiration: Warsaw.
↩︎ Marginal Revolution
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