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- BuzzFeed reports that Peter Thiel, the billionaire Trump donor and Facebook investor who believes young people's blood can help you live longer, has been enthusiastically hanging out with Nazis.
- China has apparently quietly already started vaccinating people for COVID-19 even though trials aren't done yet.
- NPR and PBS Frontline found that the oil industry has "sold the public on an idea it knew wouldn't work — that the majority of plastic could be, and would be, recycled — all while making billions of dollars selling the world new plastic."
- Do you get pandemic FOMO when you see photos and videos of tertiary friends hanging out in real life?
- New York Magazine profiles Times media reporter Ben Smith, who does not come across great: “I don’t really think about myself politically,” he said. “My ideology, to some degree, is really very much about journalism.”
- NYC announced seven more locations for Open Restaurants in the city starting this weekend.
- Elizabeth Holmes, the founder and former CEO of Theranos, may seek a "mental disease" defense in her criminal fraud trial.
- Is a black hole lurking in the outer regions of our solar system?
- The University of South Carolina started with "a tidy coronavirus tracking dashboard and a few manageable cases." Now it has over 1,400 cases.
- Every Leonardo DiCaprio performance ranked.
- And finally, here's a very sweet video about a tiny goat named Shawarma being reunited with its herd:
Published Sep 11, 2020
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