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Solar power may turn to organic photovoltaics, which convert sunlight to electricity cheaper than standard panels.

↩︎ BBC 5d

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The 2018 Rooster Summer Reading Challenge: Week 11

We’re in the home stretch of the 2018 Rooster Summer Reading Challenge, as we begin our final book of the season: The Friend by Sigrid Nunez. We’re again joined by our August judge, Emma Straub, in conversation with Nozlee Samadzadeh.

by The Tournament of Books Staff

Puerto Rico's power blackout finally ended on Tuesday. It was the longest continuous outage in the nation's history.

↩︎ The Associated Press 6h

Your first thought after a big psychedelic experience is not “When can I do it again?” It’s like, “Do I ever have to do it again?”

An interview with Michael Pollan by someone who’s never tried psychedelics.

↩︎ The Mercatus Center

When a brewery creates an In-N-Stout beer, In-N-Out crafts a legal letter full of puns (in good spirits).

↩︎ @sevenstills 7h

East Palo Alto used to be America's murder capital. Now it’s poised to break $1 million in median home prices.

↩︎ The Mercury News 7h

Available for a minimum bid of $8,000, your very own US Border Patrol station in Arizona.

↩︎ BLDGBLOG 7h

Baroque underwater photography by Hawaii-born Christy Lee Rogers.

↩︎ Photofairs 7h

Dollar General is growing fast in rural America, where some see its arrival as proof that a town is failing.

↩︎ The Guardian 7h

Through a combination of bad faith, motivated reasoning, and sheer incompetence, austerians have directly created the problem their entire program was supposed to avoid.

The argument that austerity was “the greatest mistake of economic policy analysis since 1929.”

↩︎ The Week

The Islamic State, rebounding from setbacks, still has more than 30,000 fighters in Syria and Iraq.

↩︎ The Washington Post 7h

Democrats bet on boring in the Midwest, and nominate the first transgender candidate for governorship in Vermont.

↩︎ Politico 8h

The rosé market is flush with "bulk" wine—low-quality grapes, underripe fruit, red wine by-products.

↩︎ Bon Appétit 8h

“An escalator can only become stairs.” Most of Mitch Hedberg’s material I would steal and make as my own and people would be like, “Yeah, that still makes sense.”

Comedians explain which jokes they wish they could steal.

↩︎ Vulture

While my nephew, Stephen, was famously recovering from the hardships of his high school cafeteria in Santa Monica, Joseph was a child on his own in Sudan in fear of being deported back to Eritrea to face execution for desertion.

The uncle of Trump’s immigration architect says their family wouldn’t have suvived his policies.

↩︎ Politico

The only song ever sung in a court of law is "Home! Sweet Home!" by a defense attorney in 1935. His client got life.

↩︎ Futility Closet 9h

Researchers are conflicted about why money developed in certain ancient societies and not others.

↩︎ Science News 22h

“Jaguar is the day’s animal. It means fortitude,” Plevin told us as we moved on to the next activity. “Pick a partner. Discuss your need for fortitude.”

A day with the San Francisco-based Forest Bathing Club.

↩︎ Outside Magazine

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A scathing grand jury investigation implicates more than 300 "predator priests" in Pennsylvania.

↩︎ National Public Radio 22h

NASA's Curiosity team has a Spotify "wake up" playlist they listen to when trying to rouse the snoozing Mars rover.

↩︎ Space.com 23h

Conspiracy theories tend to surface after loss, when people are open to accepting far-fetched explanations for an outcome, whether of a political or personal nature.

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