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- More than 20 HBCUs have used pandemic relief funds to forgive millions of dollars worth of student debt, allowing many students who'd dropped out for financial reasons to re-enroll.
- Vox has a solid roundup of the medal-worthy TikToks coming out of the Olympic Village.
- New Jersey is renaming rest stops along the Garden State Parkway after famous residents, including Judy Blume, Connie Chung, and James Gandolfini — but there won't be one named for Bruce Springsteen after the Boss declined the honor.
- Actor Bob Odenkirk was hospitalized yesterday after collapsing on the set of Better Call Saul.
- A new documentary about Valerie Taylor, an Australian diver who filmed shark footage for Jaws, chronicles her post-Jaws work advocating against shark-hunting, which the blockbuster had inadvertently spurred.
- Of the 24 films that screened at Cannes this year, 20 featured a main character smoking a cigarette.
- A popular science YouTuber won a $10,000 bet with a physicist by proving that he could operate a "land yacht" with a windmill on it and move downwind faster than the wind itself.
- The Empire State Trail, a 750-mile bike trail from Lower Manhattan to Canada that cuts through the Adirondaks, seems lovely.
- And finally, a very advanced bird!:
Published Jul 28, 2021
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