Gold Rush 2.0

from The New York Times A New Rush to Find Gold in the Sierra Nevada Foothills by Thomas Fuller https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahKeamZlmbI In their lust for riches, the miners of the gold rush moved a gargantuan amount of dirt. A prominent geologist, Grove Karl...

Go SLUTTY VEGAN Go!

from The New Yorker How Slutty Vegan Puts the Party in Plant-Based Food Pinky Cole’s Atlanta-based burger chain is valued at a hundred million dollars. Can racy branding take vegan food mainstream? By Charles Bethea Pinky Cole says most of her customers are...

God Love SRA

from Book Riot A BOX OF NOSTALGIA: THE SRA READING LABORATORY by Elizabeth Allen I’m the type of nerd who spent a good amount of my energy trying to will my teacher into giving us silent reading time. I’m the type of nerd who shot my hand up the instant the...

4/20 Etymology

from The Los Angeles Times Dude, you ever wonder, like, why people celebrate pot on 4/20? BY JAMES QUEALLY Any self-respecting stoner knows what to do on 4/20. But few seem to know how the otherwise innocuous date became an international celebration of cannabis...