James Holzhauer Finally Lost Jeopardy!and Changed the Game for Good

It’s over. Thirty-three games, more than 1,100 correct responses, and $2,464,216 dollars after first taking the Jeopardy! contestant podium, James Holzhauer lost. While his run failed to match Ken Jennings’ […]

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Ocean Vuong: As a child I would ask: Whats napalm?

How did a Vietnamese refugee come to write what many are hailing as the great American novel? While he was an undergraduate, Night Sky With Exit Wounds, the success of […]

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Super rich buying up Italy’s mansions under new tax regime

You get the same sort of tax savings you get in Jersey but you get to live somewhere you actually want to live Luxury Tuscan estate agent Ian Heath is […]

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Damien Hirsts 60ft headless demon statue towers over new club in sin city

The bronze sculpture, Demon With Bowl, is the centerpiece of Kaos, the new club at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas When Damien Hirsts loved and loathed Elvis coming […]

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Boss Acting Nicer Recently? You May Have VR to Thank

Barry's hair has long gone gray, his face lined with deep signs of age. Sitting across from me in his pressed blue shirt, he looks like an uncle, maybe even […]

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Jeff Bezos exposing the Enquirer’s attempt to blackmail him was good and right. But everything else about the story is so, so wrong.

Apparently 2019 is on a mission to outdo the past two years on the “How is this real life?” front. If you’ve missed the big news this week, the National […]

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The 18th annual No Pants Subway Ride streaks across the globe

Lake Harriet in Minneapolis, Minnesota.Image: Kerem yucel/ AFP / Getty Images Parts of the Midwest are experiencing the coldest temperatures in 20 years this week as the polar vortex takes […]

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