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  1. Would you like Stanley Tucci to help you learn how to:

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    12 hours ago

    now that you’ve done that, here’s my interview with . really enjoying talking with her about her reporting and all the stuff has up their sleeve for their nearly 70,000 (!) new subscribers.

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  3. "We are alive, I realized, to receive each moment for what it is: a monumental gift."

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  4. "I definitely think jazz and superhero comics are two of the three great American art forms. As for the third … well, better to leave that undefined, for others to fill in."

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  5. Ms. Monopoly is exactly what it sounds like. "Only, somehow, worse," writes:

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  7. May 15

    Hi internet. Did you find the easter egg in Shadowland yet?

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  8. May 15

    People talk about "pandemic time" as a perpetual present, when really we're all living two weeks in the past. 's latest:

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  9. May 15

    This is completely fascinating. The very young and the very old are both immunologically vulnerable, but in very different ways. 's latest:

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  10. May 15

    "Joe Biden is a happy man who has reached the peak of his career in the rec room of his basement, talking into a computer. The crisis has forced him into being only a simulation of a presidential candidate."

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  11. May 15

    Stanley Tucci's culinary guide to lockdown. "If there is no Kerrygold butter left in the United Kingdom, it’s because... we ate it. All of it."

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    May 15
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  13. May 14

    “Our window of opportunity is closing. If we fail to improve our response now, I fear the pandemic will get worse and be prolonged.”

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  14. May 14

    Wow. We now know why the Great Red Spot is red. Its deepest colors are actually holes in the cloud cover. A wondrous little piece by :

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  16. May 14

    "The best evidence that electromagnetic radiation does not cause brain cancer is simple: We have been placing antennae on our bodies and next to our heads almost 24 hours a day for two decades, and the world has not seen an epidemic of brain cancer."

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  17. May 14

    There are a lot of smart people who have thought deeply about conspiracy theories and who follow QAnon very closely. Follow , of , , , ...

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  18. May 14

    What I came to learn is that QAnon isn’t just a dangerous conspiracy theory. We are witnessing the birth of a new religion. And we are likely closer to the beginning of its story than the end. (10/10)

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  19. May 14

    But the true believers I interviewed aren’t caught up in any of that. They draw peace, strength, and hope from Q. They talked about Q as one might talk about a spiritual figure, using language that draws on an ancient preoccupation with end-times. (9/10)

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  20. May 14

    Drama among this crowd has spilled into debate about the very nature of the web, going back to early notions of what and whom the internet is for. This came up in my conversations with 8chan’s founder and 8kun’s current administrator, who are actively feuding. (8/10)

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