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law How one man's disastrous 1969 Swiss ski holiday created modern tourism consumer protection laws Ellsworth Toohey

A Gaudi Muass Sein I tried, and failed, to solve the mystery of the Tyrolean tongue choir Jennifer Sandlin

music Takeo Ischi is the chicken yodeler you didn't know you needed in your life Jennifer Sandlin

shoes The Bee Gees' 'Stayin' Alive' but on a church pipe organ Rusty Blazenhoff

bay area Surveillance reveals customer's dirty trick to discredit boba tea shop by putting lint in drink Mark Frauenfelder

The White Lotus DJs are spinning 'The White Lotus' theme as a dance tune Rusty Blazenhoff

language Gorillas at Atlanta zoo learn to make new sound to capture zookeepers' attention — it's called a "snough" Jennifer Sandlin

useful stuff I love my noise canceling Soundcore Headphones Popkin

television Watch down-on-his-luck cowboy star Hoot Gibson in a 1954 infomercial for chinchilla breeding Mark Frauenfelder

copyright A federal judge declared that a famous song about public property is still private property Thom Dunn

music Listen to the cowboy throat singer David Pescovitz

religion Probing a mysterious network of dropshippers, evangelicals, crapgadgets, and semi-vacant Manhattan department stores Cory Doctorow

what they were drinking when they made millenials Riunite advertising was something out of another universe Jason Weisberger

avengers Revengers: Intentional knockoffs of Avengers action figures Rusty Blazenhoff

happy mutants 'Walmart yodeling kid' becomes a one-up action figure Rusty Blazenhoff

china In-depth investigation of the Alibaba-to-Instagram pipeline for scammy crapgadgets with excellent branding Cory Doctorow

poetry Hawk Moon: Sam Shepard's Forgotten First Book Mark Dery