Thursday, May 7, 2020

Simpsons Did It

Turns Out A 1993 'Simpsons' Episode Eerily Predicted The Exact Ways In Which 2020 Would Be Catastrophic, Is It Safer To Visit A Coffee Shop Or A Gym?, How This Florida Man Landed His Car On Top Of Two Others
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Is It Safer To Visit A Coffee Shop Or A Gym?
nytimes.com
Some businesses, like some people, are "super-spreaders."
FACTORY OF HORRORS
Inside North America's Single Largest Coronavirus Outbreak
newsinteractives.cbc.ca
North America's largest single coronavirus outbreak started at Cargill's Alberta meat-packing plant. Take a look within.
STRAIGHT INTO THE FIRE
The Medical Students Who Joined The Battle Against The Coronavirus
newyorker.com
At NYU and elsewhere, young doctors graduated early to work in overwhelmed hospitals. But the pandemic has made their training more complicated and more perilous.
¯_(ツ)_/¯
The Economy Is In Free Fall. So Why Isn't The Stock Market?
vox.com
The stock market plunged when the coronavirus crisis set in. But now it's on the rise, even as the pandemic continues, unemployment skyrockets, and GDP falls. What gives?
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TWO STEPS FORWARD, THREE CARS BACK
EBOOK READERS STILL NOT A THING
A Fascinating Visualization Of How Long It Took Americans To Adopt New Technologies From 1900 To 2019
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How quickly have Americans adopted technologies over the past millennium?
GOING PRO
What Goes On In A Proton? Quark Math Still Conflicts With Experiments
quantamagazine.org
Two ways of approximating the ultra-complicated math that governs quark particles have recently come into conflict, leaving physicists unsure what their decades-old theory predicts.
TL;DR: LOL
The Dumbest Aspects Of The Apparent Coup Attempt In Venezuela
nymag.com
American mercenaries employed by Silvercorp — founded by ex-Green Beret Jordan Goudreau — tweeted about an alleged coup, and may have brought Airsoft guns in an apparent effort to topple Nicolás Maduro.
CAR TO BELIEVE
How This Florida Man Landed His Car On Top Of Two Others: An Investigation
sbnation.com
We investigated how impossible this was.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
WE CAN'T BEELIEVE IT EITHER
Turns Out A 1993 'Simpsons' Episode Eerily Predicted The Exact Ways In Which 2020 Would Be Catastrophic
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It references some of the most terrible things we've experienced this year: an epidemic and, also, improbably, bees.
IN THE NEWS
How Travel From New York City Seeded Wave Of US Outbreaks
Labor Department Reports 3.2 Million Weekly Jobless Claims
UK Economy Heading For Worst Crash In 300 Years Due To Coronavirus
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Released From Hospital After Being Treated For Gallstones
Billionaire Divorce Uncovers Secretive World Of Trusts In South Dakota
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FROM THE ARCHIVES
THE GREAT PAPER CAPER
The World's Greatest Counterfeiter (2014)
gq.com
Years of running drugs and boosting cars left Frank Bourassa thinking: There's got to be an easier way to earn a dishonest living. That's when he nerved up the idea to make his fortune. (Literally.) Which is how Frank became the most prolific counterfeiter in American history — a guy with more than $200 million in nearly flawless fake twenties stuffed in a garage. How he got away with it all, well, that's even crazier.
IT'S NEVER HAMMER TIME
Ten Long Years Of Trying To Make Armie Hammer Happen (2017)
buzzfeednews.com
How many second chances does a handsome white male star get?
Thursday: as far as you can get from Monday before you start approaching it from the other side.