Did the FBI steal a Civil War gold treasure worth $500 million?
Here's the best things I found on the internet this week!
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You all know the drill by now. Every week I round up the most interesting, most entertaining, and most mind-blowing content from across the interwebs, to help improve your media diet.
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This week’s best long read comes from one of my heroes, New York Mag’s Reeves Wiedeman. In the wake of the Brooklyn subway shooting, he rode all of New York City’s train lines to capture the essence of the city, and what appears to be its rapidly decaying infrastructure. How do you solve the problem? As always, an extremely well-executed story.
The internet is obsessed with the idea of short workouts. Slate talked to the author behind viral articles advocating for “getting fit in six minutes per week” and lately has gotten that all the way down to three second strength intervals. But this fascinating article dissects why short workout hacks don’t help anyone start exercising who wasn’t doing it before. And why “not having enough time” isn’t the problem health advocates should be solving for.
Last week, I recommended a story about surgeons performing better while listening to AC/DC music. Leave it to author (and lowkey genius) David Epstein to dismantle the misleading science point by point in the latest edition of his newsletter.
This is one of those bizarre government conspiracies that is hard to deny. Did the FBI steal a Civil War gold treasure worth some $500 million?
In Washington D.C., home to dozens of foreign embassies, the most talented translator in the town may be a carpet cleaner who didn’t tell anyone he speaks 24 languages — as a hobby! The Washington Post takes us inside the mind of a real life Good Will Hunting.
Every 10 years, NASA releases a report on the state of planetary science. Its findings will shape the next 10 years of space exploration. One priority seems to be a $4 billion mission to Uranus (cue the jokes).
My newfound F1 interest has seeped over to the American equivalent, IndyCar racing. The obvious question — which is faster? If F1 and IndyCar matched up on the Indianapolis 500 oval track, this really well-produced YouTube video explains that it’s not quite as simple as you think.
John Oliver is known for his well-researched and biting rants on the hottest social topics. This week, Oliver goes off on…Air Bud. I’m dying laughing.
Thanks for reading and sharing! It’s been an incredible week at the box office with The Northman, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent and Petite Maman. Can’t wait to talk to you about them on Friday!