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- New COVID-19 cases have hit a nationwide low not seen since last June.
- Axios published some distressing time-lapse heat maps showing how human sprawl has dramatically cut the amount of space where Brood X cicadas emerge.
- Speaking of the brood, people are building intricate monsters out of dead cicada shells.
- If you're adopting an eco-friendly no-beef diet by just eating more chicken, you've got the wrong idea.
- Towns in South Korea are fighting over who gets to house the Samsung family's $2.2 billion art collection, which they're unloading in order to reduce their tax bill.
- Florentine jewelers are pining for Americans to come back and buy their gold necklaces.
- Bloomberg sees your treadmill desk and raises you a home office trampoline.
- Chi Modu, a legendary New York City hip hop photographer who got his start with the New York Amsterdam News, has died at 54.
- ICYMI: North Korea banned skinny jeans.
- And finally, it's Monday go assert yourself!:
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Published May 24, 2021
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