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  • Hundreds of school systems around the U.S. bought new air filtration systems in the name of decreasing COVID risks, but unfortunately, those same systems are pumping toxic ozone and formaldehyde into classrooms.
  • Ed Lucas, a longtime New York baseball journalist and radio broadcaster who was legally blind, has died at the age of 82.
  • A study involving California restaurants that did and didn't raise wages for their waitstaff found that restaurants with higher-paid servers got fewer negative reviews about the service.
  • Steven Pinker has resigned from his fake role at the fake University of Austin and is now pivoting to podcasts.
  • "Radical transparency," or the workplace practice of telling every employee how and why decisions are made (e.g. why Steve in marketing got fired), is great... until it isn't.
  • The Navajo Nation Museum is dubbing Sergio Leone's 1964 western A Fistful of Dollars into Najavo as part of an effort to preserve and promote the Navajo language, which only about 170,000 people are still fluent in.
  • In case you were wondering, Adam Driver is 13 inches taller than his House of Gucci co-star Lady Gaga.
  • Attendees at a swanky fundraiser in West Hollywood reportedly groaned when Jeff Bezos only donated $500,000.
  • The band Korn, who are about to release their 14th album, thinks the HBO documentary about Woodstock '99 "twisted it to make us look like some bad influence" when really, they're not an inciter of toxic male behavior but actually a band about "mental health and the pain of going through things."
  • And finally, what a wind-up: