Nostalgia [https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/dlmp4c/til_that_childrens_tv_host_soupy_sales_during_one/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share] Children's TV host Soupy Sales, during one of his programs, asked children to send him the "funny green pieces of paper

Lonely Car Candy-O [https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/the-mystery-of-ric-ocasek-900031/amp/] I was a big fan. I still think "Best Friend's Girl" is one of the greatest songs of the decade. The Mystery of Ric Ocasek: 'He Tried

For the Bar Tonight As Radical as Its Eponym [https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/sam-adams-utopias-illegal] Sam Adams' newest beer is illegal in 15 states. And not because it uses the word "fag" in its advertising or anything sinister like that. Utopias is described

> Who's not proud to be British when they see this?! Protest, resolution & celebration in 60 seconds. > pic.twitter.com/iV07qiiiYe [https://t.co/iV07qiiiYe] > — DD (@DemocracyNotEU) October 17, 2019 [https://twitter.com/DemocracyNotEU/status/1184726434708971520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]

> "Today, many on the Left have become so hateful of religion that Barr's speech strikes the ears of people like Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman as the handiwork of a Cossack propagandist." https://t.co/NKnPHVCEdz > — The American Conservative (@amconmag) October 16, 2019

Episode 48: Stillness [https://www.eudemonpodcast.com/the-weekly-eudemon/2019/10/13/episode-48-stillness]

Hungry Like the Wolf [https://www.wsj.com/articles/wolf-resurgence-in-washington-state-tests-limits-of-civility-11570885202] When conservationist efforts are too successful . . . or too ideological. I can guarantee you this is a war between Seattle and eastern Washington. The wolves, nearly nonexistent in the northwestern state for

Ghost Soldier [https://www.military.com/off-duty/2019/10/02/was-there-really-exorcism-fort-bragg.html] Director Osgood Perkins is set to begin production on a new horror movie called "Incident at Fort Bragg." The studio has announced that it's based on a real-

Getting Poked Over the Coals [https://www.theringer.com/2019/10/4/20899034/poker-cheating-mike-postle-stones-gambling-hall-twitch-no-limit-holdem-sacramento-veronica-brill] I'm not a big poker fan, but this story is pretty interesting. How a Twitch-streamed no-limit hold'em

Focus, Man, Focus! [https://www.quantamagazine.org/to-pay-attention-the-brain-uses-filters-not-a-spotlight-20190924/] One of my favorite quotes: "In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention." Simone Weil Attentional processes are the brain&