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1. Thirteen-year-olds work unsupervised in ninety-degree heat.

2. The water contains disturbingly high levels of mercury and pee.

3. Strictest workplace safety regulation: NO RUNNING sign.

4. Its leader stars in garish commercials that wake you up at 3 a.m., and his eyes follow you from towering billboards along the interstate.

5. Medical emergencies are handled in the official Monster Energy Refueling Tent.

6. Purchases can only be made using proprietary currencies with unknowable exchange rates pegged to arbitrary reserves, mostly oversized novelty sunglasses.

7. Every single tree was chopped down to make room for another Dippin’ Dots cart.

8. The legal system consists of a dozen private security guards who skim profits from the gift shop and skim bugs from the Lazy River.

9. Strange men are free to ogle young women with no repercussions.

10. The sewage system is made up of thirty-seven porta-potties and one large bush.

What studying people without a ‘mind’s eye’ reveals about the role of imagery in the experience of emotion and memory

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The highway I’d helped build stretched before me. For the first time, I saw clearly what we had done

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To explore the deep sea is to understand the human story and the nature of knowledge

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Laura Poppick’s 3 greatest revelations while writing her book, Strata: Stories from Deep Time

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Lessons for our current Earth from the geologic past

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In an exclusive interview with The Grayzone’s Oscar Leon, former Bolivian President Evo Morales details a trove of leaked chats and documents which show how an electoral council member took money in exchange for disqualifying him from running for president again. As his country’s first indigenous president and the leader of powerful social movements, Evo remains popular among his base. Here, Morales addresses the attacks he has weathered from the current Bolivian president, Luis Arce, who relied on him to […]

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JADEN, COLLEGE STUDENT: “It was second semester senior year. I was quietly chatting with classmates before our French literature exam. That’s when an older woman, like, much older, busted into the lecture hall.”

CHLOE, COLLEGE STUDENT: “We all jumped. No one knew who she was. She announced loudly that she was here to take the exam and that she was ‘definitely prepared.’ It was weird.”

MME. MICHELLE, FRENCH PROFESSOR: “I noticed she was holding books from my syllabus that were still in shrink wrap. She clearly hadn’t done any of the reading. Certainly, she had never attended my class.”

CHLOE: “She was carrying so much crap: books, shopping bags, strollers, and this huge stack of REAL IDs. Everything was spilling onto the ground, but she couldn’t pick them up because of, well… her disability.”

Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We called this list a collection of Trump’s cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes, and it felt urgent to track them, to ensure these horrors—happening almost daily—would not be forgotten. Now that Trump has returned to office, amid civil rights, humanitarian, economic, and constitutional crises, we felt it critical to make an inventory of this new round of horrors. This list will be updated monthly between now and the end of Donald Trump’s second term.

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Knowing the reasons people opt not to know – and the consequences of that choice – could help us see when it’s problematic

- by Jeremy L Foust

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