Friday, November 27, 2020

🔨 How Iceland Hammered COVID With Science

Our Parents Warned Us The Internet Would Break Our Brains. It Broke Theirs Instead, How 'I'm So Excited' Became The Most Ridiculous — And Iconic— 'Saved By The Bell' Moment
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TIME OUT
How 'I'm So Excited' Became The Most Ridiculous — And Iconic— 'Saved By The Bell' Moment
theringer.com
A fledgling Bayside girl group. Caffeine pills. A breakdown. "Jessie's Song" is more than another episode of the teen classic—it's a pop cultural phenomenon. Ahead of the "Saved by the Bell" reboot, the cast and crew behind the scene recall how it came to be.
IT's NOT US, IT'S YOU
Our Parents Warned Us The Internet Would Break Our Brains. It Broke Theirs Instead
theweek.com
Two decades later, so many boomers that warned millennials to be careful on the internet seem to have forgotten all their own warnings. Their brains are broken, and that destruction is threatening to break our relationships, too.
BJÖRK TO THE FUTURE
How Iceland Hammered COVID With Science
nature.com
The tiny island nation brought huge scientific heft to its attempts to contain and study the coronavirus. Here's what it learnt.
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CIRCLE OF DISTRUST
PAULIE GET YOUR GUN
When Your Circle Small But Y'all Crazy, Clifford The Big Red Dog, And This Week's Other Best Memes, Ranked
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This week, we've got a mysterious monolith in Utah, when your circle small but y'all crazy, Clifford the Big Red Dog and Paulie Walnuts shooting at things.
CAN WE NOT
The Rise And Fall Of Tab
theconversation.com
After surviving the sweetener scares, the iconic diet soda gets canned.
REMOVING THE BARRIERS TO OUTSIDERS
Stop. Coding.
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VIDEO OF THE DAY
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See An Eye-Opening Comparison Of The Largest Living And Extinct Animals
youtube.com
From insects to toothed whales, here's how extinct members of the species compare to living ones.
IN THE NEWS
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'WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT?'
Members Only: SopranosCon And The Enduring Afterlife Of Tony Soprano (2019)
theringer.com
Twenty years since it premiered, the HBO mob drama that birthed prestige TV lives on at a New Jersey fan convention that caters to diehards. But with a David Chase prequel film on the way, will the franchise have staying power for a new generation?
HAIL HYDRATION
I Drank A Gallon Of Water A Day. Here's What Happened (2019)
outsideonline.com
Day 2: I did not think it was physically possible to pee more than I did yesterday (21 times), yet here we are, 23 times. Additional instances of bodily rebellion include an afternoon of mild nausea and a slight headache.
Now's the time to sleep off the food coma we have from yesterday.