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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.

Jun 30, 2020
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The "basic white girl who loves fall" in the United States predates the trend of pumpkin spice by more than a century.
↩︎ Jezebel 2d

How to spot a military imposter.

For those who find "stolen valor" interesting, a big story by Rachel Monroe:

The phrase originated with B. G. (Jug) Burkett, a Texas stockbroker and a Vietnam veteran, whose attempts, in the nineteen-eighties, to raise funds for a memorial to Vietnam veterans from Texas were made difficult, he wrote, by the stereotype that soldiers who returned from the war were “losers, bums, drug addicts, drunks, derelicts—societal offal who had come back from the war plagued by nightmares and flashbacks that left them with the potential to go berserk at any moment.”

There's also a good episode of Reply-All on the topic from 2016, particularly about the use of shaming:

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A fishing town in Maine tried for years to lure mega cruise ships. It got one amid the pandemic, with a crew of Covid exiles.
↩︎ DownEast 2d

I just hung up the phone. I sat back and I cried. You ask the question: Why me? What am I going to do now? That phrase, ‘what are you going to do?’ is a real and powerful thing. You can sit back and give in. Or you can figure it out.

Four months in the lives of seven Western New Yorkers who lost their jobs during the pandemic.
↩︎ The Buffalo News
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Diversity among TV actors continues to improve. Otherwise, Hollywood remains a place mostly for white men.
↩︎ Deadline 2d
How NASA snagged a sample from an asteroid 220 million miles away: an 11-foot-long arm that began life as a plastic cup.
↩︎ Quartz 2d
An activist in Portland has built an artificial intelligence system that can be used to identify police officers.
↩︎ Mic 2d
Food writer Angela Hansberger missed restaurants so badly, she opened her own—for a chipmunk.
↩︎ Bon Appétit 2d
The color russet, often seen in autumn, is more than just red-like, or red-adjacent. "It also means rustic, homely, rough."
↩︎ The Paris Review 3d

Ms. Acevedo was particularly good at soothing them during outbursts, which usually meant going from classroom to classroom and pulling up videos of songs from “Frozen” or “Moana” on her phone.

Much remains secret about the family separations begun in secret in 2017. A 24-year-old talks about caring for the separated kids.
↩︎ The New York Times
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Researchers have generated immense data to support that sustained NIH funding is crucial for the emergence of new drugs. It is now up to legislators to make it right by patients. 

Remdesivir’s big price tag ignores an enormous investment in its creation by the National Institutes of Health.
↩︎ STAT
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For the first time since records began, "the main nursery of Arctic sea ice in Siberia" has yet to start freezing in late October.
↩︎ The Guardian 3d
Since 2016, an estimated 20 percent of US polling locations have been closed.
↩︎ VICE 3d
"College men at Northwestern complained that women were 'handicapping themselves.'" A (brief) feminist history of the cardigan.
↩︎ The Week 3d
To truly understand exploitation in the music industry, try Brian De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise (1974).
↩︎ Pitchfork 3d

A person who is looking for a full-time job that pays a living wage—but who can't find one—is unemployed.

If you accept that definition, then the true unemployment rate in the US is a colossal 26.1%.
↩︎ Axios
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