Maybe having rooms with doors that close and the attendant modicum of privacy wasn’t so bad after all.
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Welcome to Hotel Millennial
Enjoy the bunk beds and the single bespoke clothes hanger.
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So Long, and Thanks for All the Value Meals
Sorry you never won a million dollars; hope you at least got a fresh batch of fries.
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The Unbearable Blandness of Water
Water companies go to impressive lengths to distinguish their tasteless product from their competitors’ tasteless product.
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American Beauties
“The life of a plastic bag is really an endless series of entanglements.”
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Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change
We’ve long known we’re headed for climate change disaster. And in the 1980s, a small group of scientists, activists, and politicians almost got us to do something about it. Almost.
Posted inCrime, Current Events, Highlight, Quotes, Sports
She’ll Be Everything He Isn’t
An MRI sparked gymnast Selena Brennan’s interest in sports medicine, and Larry Nassar isn’t going to take that away from her.
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Sliding Toward Disaster
Water parks — competing to have the tallest, fastest, scariest slides — invent their own attractions and monitor their own safety, creating a deadly conflict of interest.
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Tokyo’s Long Lines Lead to Magic (And Life-Changing Ramen)
What do you do when you’re sent to Tokyo with no notice — and no dinner reservations? You learn how to be a person who waits.
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The Long, Noble and Stinky Quest to Make Human Shit Useful
There’s gotta be something we can do with it instead of mixing it with potable water. Enter: the poop composters.