What happens when a driverless car gets pulled over by the cops?
Here are the best things I found on the internet this week!
What’s up peeps,
Hope your weeks are off to a great start. I’ve got a little bit of everything for you in my weekly round-up of the most interesting and insane internet content of the week. Hope you enjoy.
What’s the coolest story or thing you found on the internet this week? Reply to this email and shoot me a link. Would love to hear from you.
How much money do you think Tiger Woods has made in his entire career? Winnings plus endorsements. Come up with a number…and I guarantee you whatever you guessed is way too low. I’m up and running in my new gig at Forbes, writing this past week about some of the insane numbers behind Tiger Woods’ insane career.
What happens when a driverless car gets pulled over by the cops? A video from San Francisco captures the ridiculous interaction that’s only going to get more common as driverless EVs spread across the country.
Of all the awesome tributes that have been written in the past few weeks, I found this essay about the minimalism of Bruce Willis’ movie stardom by Adam Nayman in The New Yorker to be the best distillation of what made him so special.
The NBA playoffs start this week without the Los Angeles Lakers, who missed the cut despite having the league’s forth largest payroll and pre-season championship expectations. It’s the perfect time to create a “One Shining Moment” for embarrassing Lakers blunders this season. Too funny.
The most iconic coach in college basketball history is stepping down, and with Coach K gone, Duke is turning to a 34-year-old with zero head coaching experience. Sports Illustrated investigated how exactly new Duke head coach Jon Scheyer will attempt to fill Coach K’s shoes.
I’ve been blown away by the talents of voice actors since I wrote a story about one back in 2020. This video of one dialect coach nailing something like 25 distinct accents back to back — including from different section of London! — was crazy impressive.
Derek Thompson seems to always ask the right question for The Atlantic. This time: Why are American teens so sad? He explains what he calls an “extreme teenage mental-health crisis.”
In 2000, the notebooks Charles Darwin scratched in when he was developing his theory of evolution were stolen from Cambridge University. Then they mysteriously reappeared last week, in a pink gift bag with an anonymous note. Hmm, in the movies the bad guys don’t usually hand over their priceless catch with a note that reads, “Happy Easter.”
Nonfiction podcasts are the darling of the media industry right now. But where do we draw the line between using previous reporting and stealing? Brendan Koerner weaves a fascinating Twitter thread about multiple instances where his longform reporting in print was essentially stolen for a podcast without any credit or compensation.
Thanks for reading and sharing! We'll be back with our usual movie talk on Friday, talk to you then!