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Japan Short doc looks at Japan's 'evaporated people' and the industry that helps them run away Rusty Blazenhoff

rona "Leopards ate my face" subreddit bans posts about coronavirus scoffers who later die of it Rob Beschizza
History Forced internment of British civilians during World War II Maggie Koerth
Science Cosmically speaking, we are over the hill Maggie Koerth
Science The world's most disgusting Russian nesting dolls Maggie Koerth
Science An interstellar bummer Maggie Koerth
Science Human disease kills coral Maggie Koerth
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Entertainment Walking Dead 11: zombie comic is a parable about the ethics of survival and disaster Cory Doctorow
politics Look at the Assad family's boring-ass bunker Ellsworth Toohey
Republican AGs abhorrent predilection for pregnant teens Jason Weisberger
Games Reforj is a lowpoly take on the Minecraft open-world formula Rob Beschizza
movies From Million Dollar Baby to Requiem for a Dream: the most depressing mainstream films Ellsworth Toohey
exhausted expired ex-presidents Lincoln Project brutally trolls Donald Trump as a Broken Man: "limp, old, tired, impotent…" (video) Carla Sinclair
Disney Families go broke for Disneyland: Are magical memories worth the financial misery? Yoy Luadha
music Watch Devo play NPR's Tiny Desk Allan Rose Hill
Comics "Mary Tyler Moorehawk" is Johnny Quest meets Infinite Jest by way of Jack Kirby Thom Dunn
1950s "Sex and the College Girl" is a fascinating read 65 years later Yoy Luadha
los angeles Legendary L.A. eatery Clifton's Cafeteria is back! (but is called Clifton's Republic now) Yoy Luadha
Business Read Steve Albini's famous essay on the music industry's problems Thom Dunn