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Ed Caesar talks about Nick Baumgarten’s “Up and Down.”

Ed Caesar talks about Nick Baumgarten’s “Up and Down.”

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✨ Explore this must-read post from The New Yorker 📖 📂 Category: Magazine / Takes 📌 Key idea: The shortest newspaper article of Nick Baumgarten's life occurred in an elevator, which the writer shared with an editor who suffered from elevator phobia, and consisted of one word: "Elevators!" The article that followed, in April 2008, was titled "Up and Down." It's the story of a man named Nicholas White—who was trapped in an elevator in the McGraw-Hill building, in midtown Manhattan, for forty-one hours—and also a study of "lift," a delicious word for the discipline of vertical transportation design.A long…
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Train stabbing incidents: Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis offers to help affected fans

Train stabbing incidents: Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis offers to help affected fans

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✨ Discover this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Main takeaway: Alistair Day was on the train when the attack occurred, having attended Forest's 2-2 draw with Manchester United."I was next to the buffet car," said Day, who was returning to Hertford. "It was weird. I was at the end of the car, and all these kids were running around and I thought it was a joke - Halloween or the students."“Then they get louder and louder, all kinds of people are covered in blood [appeared] And I thought: 'Oh hell, this is not good.'The club said…
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Paris Had a Moving Sidewalk in 1900, and a Thomas Edison Film Captured It in Action

Paris Had a Moving Sidewalk in 1900, and a Thomas Edison Film Captured It in Action

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🔥 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Key idea: It’s fair to say that few of us now mar­vel at mov­ing walk­ways, those stan­dard infra­struc­tur­al ele­ments of such util­i­tar­i­an spaces as air­port ter­mi­nals, sub­way sta­tions, and big-box stores. But there was a time when they astound­ed even res­i­dents of one of the most cos­mopoli­tan cities in the world. The inno­va­tion of the mov­ing side­walk demon­strat­ed at the Paris Expo­si­tion of 1900 (pre­vi­ous­ly seen here on Open Cul­ture when we fea­tured Lumière Broth­ers footage of that peri­od) com­mand­ed even Thomas Edis­on’s atten­tion. As Pale­o­fu­ture’s Matt Novak…
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Alphabet is increasingly launching “moonshot” projects as standalone companies — here’s why

Alphabet is increasingly launching “moonshot” projects as standalone companies — here’s why

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🚀 Read this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 Category: Venture ✅ Here’s what you’ll learn: Alphabet's X Moonshot Factory is changing the way it brings ambitious tech projects to market, increasingly taking them out as independent companies rather than keeping them within Alphabet's corporate structure, X CEO Astro Teller revealed at TechCrunch Disrupt last week. This strategy relies on a venture fund dedicated to investing in startups X, in which Alphabet is only a minority investor. “If Alphabet was the only LP, the fund would be inside Alphabet, and then when they invest in something from X, it would…
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Paris Masters: Yannick Sinner beats Felix Auger-Aliassime to win title and regain world number one ranking

Paris Masters: Yannick Sinner beats Felix Auger-Aliassime to win title and regain world number one ranking

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💥 Check out this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Main takeaway: Yannick Sinner beat Felix Auger-Aliassime to win his first Paris Masters title and reclaim the world number one ranking from rival Carlos Alcaraz.Sinner's 6-4, 7-6 (7-4) win over the Canadian extended his winning streak on indoor hard courts to 26 matches - a streak that extends to the 2023 Davis Cup Finals.With this victory, the 24-year-old Italian raised the difference to 250 points over Alcaraz in the world rankings before the start of the season-ending tournament on November 9.Sinner's win ensures that the race for…
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The Eighteen Letters Project | The New Yorker

The Eighteen Letters Project | The New Yorker

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✨ Explore this awesome post from The New Yorker 📖 📂 Category: Culture / Personal History 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn: I realized I didn't want to just print out letters and hand Hudson a pile of paper. You need to find a vise. The woman I ended up working with seemed a bit disorganized but very passionate. I knew it was her from the moment she walked into her cramped hideaway on Melrose and ate her lunch in Tupperware containers at a large, crowded drafting table, because her personality seemed to be an accurate reflection of the appointment policy…
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James Morrison concludes his return to the DP World Tour with his 13-year-old son as a stand

James Morrison concludes his return to the DP World Tour with his 13-year-old son as a stand

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💥 Read this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn: James Morrison thought he was playing in his farewell tournament - but instead returned to the DP World Tour with his 13-year-old son as holder.The 40-year-old Englishman was ready to call it quits a day before he won the Rolex HotelPlanner Tour grand final in Mallorca on Sunday.He hugged his son Finley on the 18th green after hitting a final-round victory from 70 under par to reach 15 under par and win by three shots from Italian Stefano Mazzoli."When I said this was going…
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21 Facts About Throwing Good Parties

21 Facts About Throwing Good Parties

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🔥 Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Main takeaway: For New York’s No 1 Socialite, Angela.1) Prioritize your ease of being over any other consideration: parties are like babies, if you’re stressed while holding them they’ll get stressed too. Every other decision is downstream of your serenity: e.g. it's better to have mediocre pizza from a happy host than fabulous hors d'oeuvres from a frazzled one.2) Advertise your start time as a quarter-to the hour. If you start an event at 2:00, people won't arrive till 2:30; if you make it 1:45, people will arrive…
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Sequoia’s Roelof Botha warns founders against chasing high valuations as the company doubles down on its selective approach.

Sequoia’s Roelof Botha warns founders against chasing high valuations as the company doubles down on its selective approach.

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💥 Explore this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 Category: Fundraising,Venture,Harvey,nvidia,roelof botha,Sequoia Capital,Sierra Ai ✅ Main takeaway: The Trump administration has begun to acquire direct stakes in American companies, not as temporary measures to confront the crisis, as happened in 2008, but rather as permanent constants of industrial policy. These moves raise interesting questions, including what happens when the White House shows up on your cap table. At the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco last week, Roelof Botha, a global leader at Sequoia Capital, answered precisely this query, and his response elicited a sharp laugh from the packed audience:…
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Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk rejects ‘lazy criticism’ from Wayne Rooney

Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk rejects ‘lazy criticism’ from Wayne Rooney

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💥 Explore this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Key idea: "It doesn't hurt me. Just going back to this particular player, he's obviously a legend, a great player in the game who has inspired so many, I can only say positive things but I feel like that comment is just lazy criticism.""It's easy to blame other players but he knows we're doing it together, trying to help each one of us try to get out of this. Last year when things went well, you didn't hear it at all. That's how it is.""[Pundits] That should do…
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