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63% of voters now say a four-year college degree isn’t worth the cost, NBC poll finds [ [link removed] ]
Back at the turn of the century when I was in college, it was still believed that a college degree was basically guaranteed success in life… but it turns out that if everybody has a college degree, it’s not much of a selling point
Quirky rituals may feel arbitrary, but they can strongly affect well-being [ [link removed] ]
No one should make you feel weird about watching Muppet Christmas Carol 32 times during the month of December. What’d your big holiday tradition that might get a little side-eye?
I’m sharing some of my fiction writing as a serialized story. Paid subscribers can read the story each week, but free subscribers will be able to follow what’s happening in the story through news reports from the in-universe site “NewsGator”
The Last Four Years Ch. 7: Communities Turn to Spiritual Leaders for Guidance [ [link removed] ]
In The Last Four Years, a comet is four years away from hitting Earth. It’s not enough time to stop it, but long enough to get bored waiting for it. It is a story about what people do with the time they have left. Families trying to stay together, scientists trying to find a way out, and leaders holding civilization together
The Last Four Years Ch. 6 [ [link removed] ] | The Last Four Years Ch. 5 [ [link removed] ] | The Last Four Years Ch. 4 [ [link removed] ] | The Last Four Years Ch. 3 [ [link removed] ] | The Last Four Years Ch. 2 [ [link removed] ] | The Last Four Years Ch. 1 [ [link removed] ]
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Being hot is now a job requirement [ [link removed] ] - I guess that’s my problem. When you cut the marketing budget to the bone, suddenly you need all of your overworked staffers to be influencers
City Raccoons Near Humans Show Early Signs of Domestication [ [link removed] ] - Since wolves eventually turned into Chihuahuas and Corgis, what do you think we’ll eventually turn Raccoons into?
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Lawsuit Argues Postal Service Withheld Mail for 2 Years [ [link removed] ] - As Newman on Seinfeld once mused “When you control the mail, you control information”
Antarctica’s Southern Ocean might be gearing up for a thermal ‘burp’ that could last a century [ [link removed] ] - I saw Thermal Burp play at Lollapalooza last summer
Bay Area teacher wrongly ID’d as convict, pulled from class due to last name ‘Smith’ [ [link removed] ] - In fairness, how many people out there have the last name Smith? It’s not like it’s a common name or anything…
Kim Kardashian Shocked to Learn She Has “Low Activity” in Her Brain [ [link removed] ] - I don’t find that shocking at all (In all seriousness, she had an aneurysm, which is certainly scary. I wouldn’t be surprised if something like that would lead to a level of activity that’s lower than normal, but not enough that you’d actually notice it)
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Man Finds His Car Stuffed with Over 40 Pounds of Hazelnuts [ [link removed] ] - That’s a lot of hazelnuts
AI Christian ‘singer’ Solomon Ray tops the charts, stirs ethical debate [ [link removed] ] - Maybe if someone in the CCM genre tried writing some music that had more than three chords it wouldn’t be an issue
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