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If you’ve been following my newsletter from its beginning, you might remember this post from December 2019. In it, I shared a personal fascination with the idea that there was an advanced human civilization that thrived during the last ice age and came to cataclysmic destruction at the end of the ice age around 12,800 years ago. The main person piecing together this theory is Graham Hancock. On its face, Hancock’s assertion that we’re “a species with amnesia” goes against everything we’ve been taught in history class about the human story.

Building a small business takes careful planning, hard work, bravery, and luck. I also value an ad-free reading experience, and think you do too. If you’re interested supporting my passionate research into topics I find fascinating, here’s the link: Hello fellow time-traveler, Today we are taking a trip into the first century, when Vesuvius erupted and then buried the city of Pompeii under a think blanket of ash and mud and pyroclastic flow, preserving a garden for research and examination.

Many people celebrated Father’s Day on Sunday; Bennifer celebrated Ben Affleck’s Abs Day. Jennifer Lopez rang in the day with a four post carousel, led, of course, by a thirst trap: “Daddy Appreciation Post,” she captioned. “Happy Father’s Day Papa.” The only correct way to talk about this is slide by slide: Exhibit A: Devoted Hung Up readers will recall that there are two ways to be a Leo: the J.

Good Morning! Here are today’s highlights:             Etsy is pushing its retailers to discount early this holiday season. As prices start to drop, the housing industry is showing signs of cracking. Drive-throughs are eating the fast-food industry. Chip and Joanna Gaines’ latest fixer upper is a hotel. Tired of bad online reviews, this restaurant decided to fight back: “Dragon Lee, a family-owned Chinese restaurant in upstate New York, is a beloved place.

I was having lunch at my favorite dosa spot in Soho pre-pandemic when I heard a voice by the cash register say the order was for “Benjamin.” I looked up and there, waiting on his dosa, was the world’s most mysterious MC, Andre Benjamin aka Andre 3000 formerly of the innovative duo Outkast. I’d interviewed him for Spin magazine not long after the explosive success of Speakerboxx/The Love Below, but we were hardly friends.

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Spending even one minute responding to Andrea Long Chu’s recent provocation feels like a defeat. It is such an ill-conceived, careless piece of writing, and one that exhibits so little genuine concern for the group it is supposedly written on behalf of — trans kids — that its own thesis statement is basically self-debunking: “We must be prepared to defend the idea that, in principle, everyone should have access to sex-changing medical care, regardless of age, gender identity, social environment, or psychiatric history,” argues Chu.

One of today’s guests is Andrei Bolkonsky, aide-de-camp to Kutuzov, the commander-in-chief of the army on its way to Austria. He has recently married Lise Meinen. According to Anna Pavolvna, he has an eccentric father and an unhappy sister. His wife arrives first at Anna’s soirée, complaining of how Andrei is deserting her to get himself killed in the war. And here he is, with his “measured step” and “bored expression”, a handsome young man who looks thoroughly displeased to be here.

Hello and welcome to Gossip Time, a weekly guide to the stars by Allie Jones. This week: an actor dates a witch, two other actors announce their divorce, and the Madden brothers fight over baby bird names.  The 40-year-old British actor Andrew Garfield has had an interesting celebrity relationship trajectory. He’s never dated Taylor Swift, even though it seems like he should have. He had one long, serious relationship with his Spider-Man co-star Emma Stone, which was mostly spent educating the paparazzi about charitable organizations.