Dishes and glasses smashing apart and reforming in an impressive CGI animation.

In this impressive CGI animation by Optical Arts, dishes and glasses smash apart and reform, again and again.

See also: Photos of sculptures captured at the moment of smashing, by Martin Klimas.

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One benefit to dining behind plexiglass shells: actually smelling your food.

A thought experiment by James Fallows: What if the United States' coronavirus response had been handled by aviation experts?

↩︎ The Atlantic 16h

“I’m not one of those cowboy-type guys,” Murphy says. “The idea is, sneak in, do what you gotta do, and get out of there with nobody seeing you.”

The story of a semi-professional burglar brought down by stolen Super Bowl rings.

↩︎ Bloomberg

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Polls show a high level of enthusiasm for voting this year. Unfortunately, new voter registrations have fallen off a cliff.

↩︎ FiveThirtyEight 16h

“It’s about what we are not seeing.” Lessons learned thus far from coronavirus autopsies.

↩︎ The Washington Post 16h

"A smattering of smashed auction records" during an online art sale by Sotheby's.

↩︎ Artsy 22h

“A chant is made of three components: a statement, a question, and a suggestion.” Lessons from a master auctioneer.

↩︎ Texas Monthly 22h

During two weeks of protests in LA, calls for police assistance declined nearly by half.

↩︎ The Los Angeles Times 22h

Only this spring, when we retreated from disease and humans bearing disease, did we yield wholly to the ecstasy, agony, and tedium of life on the internet.

Virginia Heffernan calls the internet “both an extension of nature and a map of it.”

↩︎ 1843

22h

To enjoy an inheritance that comes from flawed men by pretending that it comes from nowhere, through nobody, is a betrayal of memory, not its rectification.

Ross Douthat argues that focusing on Elihu Yale’s slave-trading ignores how much we currently rely on China’s slave labor.

↩︎ The New York Times

23h

As long as we've had markets, we've had upscale markets. Now fancy restaurants are becoming CSAs for the urban wealthy.

↩︎ Eater 23h

A Paris café uses large teddy bears to encourage social distancing.

↩︎ Reddit 23h

More US testing is the first step towards suppressing, not just mitigating, the coronavirus.

↩︎ NPR 23h

A 10-year timelapse video from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), which has been watching the Sun non-stop for over a full decade.

With a triad of instruments, SDO captures an image of the Sun every 0.75 seconds. The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) instrument alone captures images every 12 seconds at 10 different wavelengths of light. This 10-year time lapse showcases photos taken at a wavelength of 17.1 nanometers, which is an extreme ultraviolet wavelength that shows the Sun’s outermost atmospheric layer — the corona. Compiling one photo every hour, the movie condenses a decade of the Sun into 61 minutes.

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Swooning and naked in its pride, the 17-song compilation album, advertised in 60-second hallucinations disguised as infomercials, was a warm vat of music that we might today refer to loosely as “new age.”

An entertaining review of the highly commercial—yet influential—early-‘90s new age compilation, Pure Moods.

↩︎ Pitchfork

The 75-year-old protestor knocked down by Buffalo police has been released from the hospital nearly a month later.

↩︎ NPR 1d

QAnon has proliferated in large part to Facebook, which seems aware of how the community operates, yet reluctant to shut it down.

↩︎ The Guardian 1d

"Oh, why is my food here? Why is it on the floor?" What it's like to deliver pizza during the pandemic.

↩︎ Slate 1d

An antidote for bad news: front pages of the *New York Times* painted in vibrant gradients, by Sho Shibuya.

↩︎ Colossal 1d

Disney will "reimagine" its Splash Mountain ride, which debuted in 1989 with references to the racist Song of the South.

↩︎ Smithsonian Magazine 1d

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