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- New research shows that the vast majority of unvaccinated workers who claim they'd rather get fired than get vaccinated are bluffing, and when Mandate Day arrives, they get that shot (and their paycheck).
- Due to supply chain pressures and the need to pay employees higher wages, Dollar Tree is planning to sell some items for $1.25 or even $1.50.
- In what may be the earliest instance of humans domesticating animals, scientists have found that 18,000 years ago, people in the rainforests of New Guinea began raising cassowary birds — known as the world's deadliest birds because of their sharp talons — to work with them instead of killing them.
- Carlos Watson, the CEO of the possibly fraudulent media company Ozy that was eviscerated in the Times yesterday, has been stripped of his hosting duties for tonight's documentary Emmys.
- Lebron James confirmed yesterday that he's been vaccinated against COVID-19, but insisted that getting vaccinated is an individual's choice about how they handle their bodies. (That's not really what vaccines are about.)
- Eminem opened a kitschy restaurant in Detroit called Mom's Spaghetti.
- You can go glamping on the Hudson Valley farm where Pie-O-My, Tony Soprano's horse, is living in retirement.
- London put up a little blue plaque on the apartment building where Diana Spencer lived with her girlfriends before she started dating Prince Charles.
- Refresh your feeds, Gen X: There's a new podcast about Donna Tartt, Brett Easton Ellis, and the shenanigans of Bennington College's class of 1986.
- And finally, Jeff is beside himself about this bird outside his window:
What do YOU need today? How about the hawk that landed on the tree right outside the kitchen window this morning. Holy cow! I mean, holy bird. #VanderWild pic.twitter.com/ij6cG8arT4
— Jeff VanderMeer (@jeffvandermeer) September 28, 2021
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