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Month: May 2019

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Hoarding Japanese Chalk

  • May 13 2019
  • | by Joel

This sweet video shows why the world’s best mathematicians are hoarding what they believe to be the world’s best chalk: Hagoromo, from Japan. But now it’s becoming hard to find.

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Half of U.S. Newspapers could be gone by 2021

  • May 12 2019
  • | by Joel

Axios has an alarming summary of comments made by Nicco Mele, director of Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, to the Wall Street Journal. Half of existing newspapers could be gone, soon. The trends are familiar to those who work in the […]

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