Early Addition: I'm Sure Having Caligula's Mosaic As A Coffee Table Was Fun While It Lasted

James Ramsay

Published Mar 12, 2021

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James Ramsay

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Stimulus checks should be hitting bank accounts this weekend for people with direct deposit set up. For other eligible Americans, the IRS plans to start mailing checks on March 29th.
Rural public transit agencies that saw ridership plummet during the pandemic and are now operating vaccination sites on wheels.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is leading the Republican charge to back the Amazon workers trying to unionize in Alabama.
A digital collage by an artist named Beeple sold for over $69 million yesterday, setting a record for an artwork that only exists as a .jpg file.
A McKinsey study determined that Hollywood has been losing out on $10 billion a year in revenue by failing to adequately address racial inequity in the industry.
King Goodwill Zwelithini, who was crowned the leader of the Zulu nation in South Africa in 1971, died at the age of 72. It's unclear which of his 28 kids will now assume the throne.
A mosaic that was once in a ship belonging to Roman Emperor Caligula and was then turned into a coffee table for a Park Avenue apartment has been returned to Rome.
The pandemic killed sex.
But the pandemic did not kill hugging...because hugging was already dead.
Breaking free for the weekend:

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