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October 23, 2015
• Today in billionaires: Bill Gates was briefly overthrown as the world’s richest man by Spanish billionaire Amancio Ortega, though the Microsoft founder was back on top within twenty-four hours. No word yet on how Gates spent his brief layover down amongst us common ...

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October 22, 2015
• New research theorizes that one’s youthful entertainment choices may have a lot to do with one’s political ideology, leading Pacific Standard to ask, “Are right-wingers raised on Rambo?” • Today in innovation: Elon Musk’s recent Tesla ...

Daily Bafflements
October 21, 2015
• As Vox runs explainers on why we should be suspicious of a rare woman-run $10 billion startup, Elle takes another look at the landscape that technologically-oriented women are subsisting in: However much we’d all love Theranos to be clean as a ...

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October 20, 2015
• The police have brilliant new technology to disappear us with, literally. Their new X-ray vans can see right through buildings and trucks, and New York Police Commissioner Bill Bratton won’t answer whether they will use them to see through people: ...

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October 19, 2015
• Here’s The New Yorker getting in on a major trend by profiling everyone’s favorite hair-shirted Baffler contributing editor, George Scialabba. (Apparently, the do we threw him for his retirement was “campy,” “quaint,” and “extravagant.” Very ...

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October 15, 2015
• Today in innovation trials and (mainly) tribulations: pity the poor startup tycoons behind the Skarp Laser Razor (say that three times fast.) Their much-ballyhooed razor, which promised customers they’d never need to buy blades again, raised $4 million on Kickstarter ...

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October 14, 2015
• All San Francisco’s chickens have come home to roost! The rapidly gentrifying and tech-savvy city has invented an app to report homeless people. They’ve called it “Snitch.” We’ll say no more.  • Feeling unfortunate, ...

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October 13, 2015
• Persecution of Christians has taken a number of different forms over the years, from being burned alive, stoned to death, crucified (both then and now), and perhaps the most sinister of them all, asked awkward questions over brunch. Yes, that’s ...

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October 09, 2015
• Fashion mavens rejoice: for all your trend-watching needs, the New Yorker‘s got the lowdown on “achievement beards” (think George Clooney, not ZZ Top.) For more on the evolution of our throwback fashion craze, check out Baffler contributing editor ...

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October 08, 2015
• Missed our celebration of George Scialabba at the Brattle Theatre last month? No worries, the appreciations of George’s critical gifts keep rolling in. Here’s a lovely one from The Chronicle of Higher Education. If that whets your appetite, you’re in ...

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October 07, 2015
• If you passed by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston on Monday, you likely would have heard the clamor of protestors raising a fuss about the long-dead French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Donning signs reading “God Hates Renoir” and Treacle ...

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October 05, 2015
• “I’m sorry I can’t spin right now. I’ve won the Nobel Prize,” and other homely reminiscences of genius, lovingly collected by the Times, remind us of Tom Frank’s piece about the “Parable of the Phone Call,” ...