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Why are watches often set to 10:10 in ads? One theory is that the hands then resemble a smiling face.
↩︎ Real Clear Science May 12, 2022
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“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 4h

This season, I've sent home about $800. Technically, it’s against DOC policy. We’re not supposed to be gambling, bartering canteen items. But as long as nobody is getting stabbed over unpaid debts, they’ll turn a blind eye.

Dozens of incarcerated people track the money they make—official jobs and side hustles—and spend over 30 days.
↩︎ The Marshall Project
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A survey of Gen Z Londoners shows them hooking up plenty, finding it hilarious that older people are worried about a sex drought.
↩︎ Vogue 4h
A new book celebrates 3,000 years of ocean art: nautical cartography, woodblock prints, pop-culture ephemera.
↩︎ Colossal 4d

Your weekly hardcore classical moment: ELISION performs Richard Barrett's "world-line."

In physics and cosmology a world-line describes the path an object takes through four-dimensional spacetime. Here, the journey is marked by the energies of fifteen different vortices that fling the listener and performer ever outwards into new sonic dimensions with 'Rasa', the eighth movement, being the still centre of this hurricane universe. From the pounding opening chords of 'Dust 1' to the madcap tightly woven ensemble of the 'Lens' sequence, invention is ceaseless. 

Via The Rest Is Noise

4d
"He is why I love lasagna so much." "Why did we stop killing politicians?" Another Reddit round-up from Jesse Pearson.
↩︎ Instagram 4d

Suicide is the No. 2 cause of death for girls age 10 through women age 24, up from No. 3 a decade ago. America’s maternal mortality rate of 24 per 100,000 live births is the highest of any industrialized nation

Claire Suddath outlines a “hierarchy of precariousness”—from drag to deadly—as life becomes worse for women in the US.
↩︎ Bloomberg
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Whether they’re targeting cruise ships or private yachts, they attack with similar tactics of pirates past, which usually means “negotiating” for the most goods they can steal without having to draw weapons. Bloody battles are, and were, rare. 

A pirate researcher compares today’s buccaneers with previous generations. “Pirates want to get in and out quickly.”
↩︎ Hakai Magazine
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"Technology is much more powerful than I imagined, and the human mind much weaker." A Talmudic-minded take on digital addiction.
↩︎ Sources Journal 4d
Coffee shops struggle to bounce back with so many people still staying at home to work (and drink coffee).
↩︎ Reuters 4d

“The results never quite reach homogenous status.”

A coffee aficionado's assessment of the recently trending idea "mayonnaise with your morning coffee." 

While mayonnaise in coffee is always a surprising concoction, the pairing is not new. About every five years or so the great debate about whether or not to put may in coffee refreshes anew. 

6d
A costume designer for Industry, the Gen-Z banking show, explains how women communicate with fashion in finance.
↩︎ Dirt 6d
Diary of a Covid-19 San Francisco bus driver. "In calling them 'mask refusers,' I’m being specific with my language."
↩︎ Bloomberg 6d

“In the past, I thought that certain woodwind players played certain solo passages too loud. But now I know better. In Carnegie Hall, even a pianissimo may seem loud and clear.”

Musicians explain why playing Carnegie Hall sounds so good. (It has nothing to do with the audience in the seats.)
↩︎ The New Criterion
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"It even looked sinister, hunched silent on a shelf in a cold room." Remembering the terror of old-fashioned phones.
↩︎ Lamp Magazine 6d
What to do with an old Manhattan church? Condos? Mixed development? Something beyond the "dumb leave-it-or-lose-it debates?"
↩︎ Curbed 1w
Development of the new Grand Theft Auto gets rejiggered to be less fratty—mainly in response to worker revolt.
↩︎ Bloomberg 1w
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