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- NASA is hiring four people to live in a 1,700-square-foot Mars simulation bubble for a year.
- The Times has a photo essay from an annual Indigenous Andean ritual where men, women, and children get in full-blown fist fights with each other as a way to ultimately usher in peace for the new year.
- Thanks to prize money and other bonuses from her sponsors, American swimmer Katie Ledecky will have to pay about $44,000 in taxes when she returns to the U.S. from the Olympics.
- The Canadian border is now open for all American tourists trying to head north.
- A Columbia University study found that the contentious rezoning plan for Gowanus will make the Brooklyn neighborhood more diverse and less segregated.
- Mike Richards, the Jeopardy! executive producer who is (for some reason) favored to become the next host, is rebutting accusations that he discriminated against pregnant employees when he worked for The Price Is Right.
- A third-party company that makes a device for repairing McDonald's McFlurry machines won a major victory for the right-to-repair movement after the McFlurry machine's manufacturer tried to secretly learn the third-party company's secrets — and in turn got hit with a restraining order.
- Yeah, why DO websites insist on only showing little dots when you type in your password?
- The stadium for Rochester's minor league baseball team has run out of beer bats (plastic bats you fill up with beer) because a) the stadium underestimated demand, and b) half the bats had little holes in the bottom and thus couldn't be filled with beer.
- And finally, sneaky tuft-takers:
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Published Aug 9, 2021
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