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    Extra, Extra: Cooped-Up Pet Owners Are Teaching Their Dogs To Talk

    by John Del Signore
    Published August 16, 2020
    A bike leans next to a railing with the beach in the background in NYC.

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    • The possibility of a severe flu season has health experts raising the specter of a "twindemic."
    • The National Weather Service has an explanation for why some vegetation is withering in a very specific way on Long Island.
    • An aviation expert took photos of the inside of dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's creepy private jet, which was widely known as "the Lolita Express."
    • This profile of Secret Machines reminds us of a simpler time when everyone had a blog and live music was everywhere.
    • A Manhattan man is obsessed with personally fixing illegally obscured license plates.
    • Holland Cotter writes eloquently for the NY Times about the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia: "Closure is not its goal. Active, additive remembrance is. Is this what distinguishes a memorial from a monument? A monument says: I am truth. I am history. Full stop. A memorial says, or can say: I turn grief for the past into change for the present, and I always will.
    • Elizabeth Debicki will play Princess Diana in the final two seasons of The Crown on Netflix.
    • How close are you to teaching your pet to talk during the pandemic?
    • A tractor trailer driver nearly died after powerful winds from Tropical Storm Isaias knocked over his rig on the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge.
    • And finally, please pump up the volume for Deer's cover of the Phil Collins hit "In the Air Tonight":

    Phil Collins - “In the Air Tonight”
    ft. Deer pic.twitter.com/3d3e5sA7I2

    — JN11 (@j_nejman11) August 9, 2020

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