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Early Addition: Why Give Your Employees Free Parking When You Could Pay Them To Not Drive?
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Published Jul 15, 2021
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- On the Russian messaging app Telegram, business is booming for sellers of $200 fake CDC coronavirus vaccination cards.
- Various countries and corporations are concerned that curbing carbon emissions — which is of the upmost global importance — will involve a ton of mining for the minerals used in batteries, and that itself can be environmentally harmful and, in some places, involve child labor.
- Instead of subsidizing free parking at American workplaces — apparently a common thing — what if the government paid people to not drive to work?
- Researchers in California have made some progress towards creating a technological device that hooks to your brain and transcribes your thoughts, which would be extremely useful for people who've lost the ability to speak.
- NASA is warning that "by the mid-2030s...there could be a 'rapid” increase in the frequency of high-tide flooding in several parts of the country," in part caused by the moon’s “wobble.”
- We're getting a new New Coke.
- MTV Cribs is coming back.
- Two men were found dead at the Versace Mansion in Miami yesterday, on the eve of the 24th anniversary of Gianni Versace's murder in that very building.
- "The book was good": A basically unknown author calling himself Stokes Prickett started mailing installments of his novel, Foodie, to random writers he likes, and the saga wound up on newyorker.com.
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