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Julia Fox says Kanye West romance was "best thing" that happened to her
Julia Fox is singing the praises of her short-lived romance with Kanye West, two weeks after they announced the end of their relationship. The Uncut Gems star, 32, and West, 44, embarked on their relationship soon after meeting at a New Year's Eve party in Miami. They enjoyed dates in New York City, Los Angeles and Paris before the February 14 announcement that they had split.
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The 'Nintendo Generation' Have Weak Skeletons, Says US Army Weirdo
Earlier today, a press release dropped on a Pentagon news service’s website titled, Why Today’s ‘Gen Z’ is at Risk for Boot Camp Injuries. It is very funny. You can read it here if you’d like (thanks Vice), but the gist is that a single dude from the US Army, a “clinical coordinator and chief of the medical readiness service line at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri,” has some concerns about the physical readiness of new recruits aged 18-25.
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A museum guard draws eyes on a pricey painting due to boredom
A valuable avant-garde painting of artist Anna Leporskaya's Three Figures painting, valued roughly at $1 million, was vandalized by a bored security guard who was on his first and obviously last day at work. The 90-year-old painting was on exhibit at the Yeltsin Center in Yekaterinburg and was on loan from Moscow's State Tretyakov Gallery, Russia, as part of an exhibit titled "The World as Non-Objectivity: The Birth of a New Art."
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People with stronger Buddhist beliefs are more likely to donate blood due to greater sensitivity to morality
A study published in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology suggests that appealing to the moral elements of Buddhist teachings might encourage more people to donate blood. The researchers found that people with stronger Buddhist beliefs were more likely to say they would donate blood, and this was partly explained by increased moral attentiveness.
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The intimacy of the TV star death
Shortly before his death in 2016, Alan Thicke, who played Jason Seaver, the dad on the long-running sitcom Growing Pains, told me how often people would come up to him to talk about how his work on the show had affected their lives.
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From Evil AI to Climate Change: Biggest Threats to Humans in 2022
The last few years of the pandemic have reminded us that humanity is far from invincible. We may be the most powerful beings on Earth, but just like every civilization in the past, we also have our limitations and weaknesses. Over the course of the last hundred years, industrialization, population growth, and technological development have changed the nature of human life almost beyond recognition.
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‘I go too far, too deep’: the Swiss wanderer who found the soul of Japan
In 1951, Werner Bischof was sent to cover the war in Korea. The photographer instead found himself captivated by Japan, where US soldiers took their leave, and spent a year exploring ‘the depths of the Japanese soul’
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One-Third Of Programmers Use Marijuana While Working, With Many Touting Creative Benefits, Study Finds
More than one-third of software programmers say they’ve used marijuana while working, with many finding that it helps promote creativity and get them into the “programming zone,” according to a new study.
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Why Doesn't Uruguay Celebrate Christmas?
Uruguay's state calendar makes no mention of Christmas or Holy Week, part of a secularization of its calendar which dates back to 1919.
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New, Tender, Quick: A Visit to the Elizabeth Bishop House
Why have I come so far on a literary pilgrimage? I want to be unafraid to move in the world again. “Should we have stayed at home and thought of here?” Bishop asks in her poem “Questions of Travel.” Am I, like her, dreaming my dream and having it too?
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Sunday Reading: Television in Popular Culture
From The New Yorker’s archive: a selection of pieces about notable shows and how they have helped transform our culture.
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Yemen's ancient, soaring skyscraper cities
Constructed using natural materials, Yemeni high-rises are superbly sustainable and perfectly suited to the hot and dry Arabian desert climate.
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How Soviet Children's Books Became Collectors' Items in India
Thanks to nostalgia, the literary legacy of the USSR has a long afterlife.
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The Festival of the Snake-Catchers in Italy
The festival of the snake-catchers involves a procession carrying the statue of St. Dominic, draped with living snakes in Italy.
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More Than 80 Cultures Still Speak in Whistles
Dozens of traditional cultures use a whistled form of their native language for long-distance communication. You could, too.
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Archaeologists discover 'Lost Golden City of Luxor'
Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of an ancient city in the desert outside Luxor ion Egypt. They say it dates back to the golden age of the pharaohs more than 3,000 years ago.
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The death of Hollywood: why no one shoots movies in LA any more
Ext: a windswept urban wilderness, full of deserted buildings, sometime in the near future. On a hillside in the distance the letters of a huge sign are hidden behind foliage — only an H is visible. A stranger strides into town. “What is this place?” he asks a woman huddled in a doorway. “It’s Hollywood,” she replies. “They used to make movies here.”
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The death of the 'Millionaire Next Door' dream
The idea that the average guy can become rich via hard work and rigorously virtuous thrift is one of the compelling myths of the American experience.
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Hit songs rely on increasing “harmonic surprise” to hook listeners, study finds
Hip-hop artist Childish Gambino (aka actor Donald Glover) made a splash in 2018 with the release of his Grammy-winning hit single, "This Is America." With its stark, sudden shifts between choral melodies in major chords and menacing percussive elements drawn from the trap subgenre, the song constantly defies the listener's expectations throughout.
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Gridiron Gangster: How a Pro Gambler Took Down an Alleged Crime Boss
Robert J. Cipriani arrived in Sydney feeling the way he always did on the eve of a gambling trip: giddy, confident, a hustler with pure intentions. It was August, 2011. Under the pseudonym of Robin Hood 702, Cipriani billed himself as an unorthodox philanthropist: the high stakes blackjack player who used his winnings to benefit those in need. It was an act inspired by his own hardscrabble past in blue-collar Philadelphia, and conceived during regular sojourns to Las Vegas (702 is the city’s area code).
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