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The Super-Rich Who Are Begging To Be Taxed Aside from military contractors, it's rare to find a group of Americans so openly besotted with the idea of taxation as the Patriotic Millionaires are. August 28, 2019 at 02:57AM via Digg https://ift.tt/2Hwxkvg

Parkour Pro Climbs A Wall Like A Freaking Video Game Character It took dozens of attempts, multiple days and at least one run-in with the police to nail this trick. Thankfully there was a checkpoint right before it. August 28, 2019 at 05:57PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2PhkRSk

The Tragedy On Howse Peak In April, alpinists David Lama, Jess Roskelley, and Hansjörg Auer went silent during a harrowing expedition in Canada. August 28, 2019 at 03:16PM via Digg https://ift.tt/30CMzds

I Called Bret Stephens A Bedbug. Then He Tried To Squelch My Freedom Of Speech. What A Day Bret Stephens is above me in the status hierarchy. He knows this. I know this. He has won a Pulitzer Prize and has a regular op-ed column in the New York Times. I am just some professor. I’ve written two books, but unless you are professionally involved with digital politics, you probably have never heard of me. August 28, 2019 at 02:51PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2UajsMg

The Reluctant Propagandist Massood Sanjer, Afghanistan's most famous radio host, had an unlikely start to his career as a beacon of free speech. Under the Taliban rule, his voice used to carry Taliban propaganda all over the world. August 28, 2019 at 12:31AM via Digg https://ift.tt/2NvTAJs

More UFOs Than Ever Before America had its head broken open during World War II, and out came the visions. August 28, 2019 at 02:57AM via Digg https://ift.tt/34654Jy

The Sarcophagus: Photographing The Most Radioactive Places In Chernobyl As I approach the walls of the old sarcophagus, the radiation levels increase and the dosimeter beeps with increasingly intense warnings. August 27, 2019 at 09:23PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2U5ZT7C

The Most Popular Supermarkets In America, Visualized For many Americans, where they shop for groceries forms part of their cultural identity. August 27, 2019 at 06:26PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2zmv2KJ

Here’s What San Francisco’s Most Expensive Home on the Market Looks Like Offered at $40,500,000, the residence spans an entire city block at the base of the famous Lombard Street. August 27, 2019 at 04:30PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2LhWpey

Judge Rules Against Johnson & Johnson In Landmark Opioid Case In Oklahoma Calling the opioid crisis an "imminent danger and menace," District Judge Thad Balkman said "the state met its burden that the defendants Janssen and Johnson & Johnson's misleading marketing and promotion of opioids created a nuisance as defined by [the law]." August 26, 2019 at 09:55PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2U6d1tJ

China's Spies Are On The Offensive China's spies are waging an intensifying espionage offensive against the United States. Does America have what it takes to stop them? August 27, 2019 at 12:26AM via Digg https://ift.tt/2Ld3EV3

The Way This Goblin Shark Bites A Flounder Is Pure Nightmare Fuel Nature has many sides: some are beautiful and some are wondrous. This is neither of those two things. August 26, 2019 at 08:11PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2U61x9B

This Skateboarding Trick Has Broken Our Brains Here's a trick from skateboarder Evan Mock that, if you were to just see out of the corner of your eye, you might shrug at and move on. But as soon as you focus on it and realize what Mock is doing, you'll lose your mind, because hoooooly sh*t, what? August 26, 2019 at 09:55PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2U7Pzw3

Uber And Lyft Take A Lot More From Drivers Than They Say "This is robbery," one driver said over email. "This business is out of control." August 26, 2019 at 05:41PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2MDoQ9G

How Elon Musk Fooled Investors, Bilked Taxpayers And Gambled Tesla To Save Solarcity The controversy over SolarCity, which has dovetailed with questions about Musk's mountain of debt and profit shortfalls, offers a window into the mindset of America's most outlandish CEO. August 26, 2019 at 06:35PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2PeIr2c

How Roxy Music's Soft-Core Pin-Up Girls Saved the Album Cover Bryan Ferry's band brought a breath of fresh air to a self-serious genre, and their choices in vinyl art were no different August 26, 2019 at 08:04PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2KV9mvI

My Husband Is Dying Every Day Ron Fellows played cornerback for the Dallas Cowboys and Los Angeles Raiders from 1981–1988. Now 61 years old, Fellows suffers from Alzheimer's, and his cognition is gradually declining. What follows is a description of life from the perspective of Debra Fellows, Ron's wife since 2002. August 26, 2019 at 06:35PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2Lng78L

Jeff Goldblum Has A Very Jeff Goldblum Reaction To The Marvel-Sony 'Spider-Man' Split The "Thor: Ragnarok" actor is the meme-generating machine that just keeps on giving. August 26, 2019 at 03:19PM via Digg https://ift.tt/329Ib6d

Why Is The One Percent So Obsessed With Magic? Steve Cohen, aka the Millionaires' Magician, has made a killing doing parlor magic for the wealthy — revealing the dreams and aspirations of those who already have everything. August 26, 2019 at 02:34PM via Digg https://ift.tt/341naMP

The New Treasures Of Pompeii From gorgeous artworks to grimacing corpses, archaeologists are still uncovering the truth about life — and death — in the doomed city. August 26, 2019 at 03:42PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2ZcRdlO