Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey
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This week, Big Thief will release its second album of 2019. But Two Hands is a deeper accomplishment than the statistic: It's a record that finally captures the band's audible unconditional closeness. -
Buying a lottery ticket is a bad deal. The odds are against you, even with a giant pot. But one guy figured out how to flip the odds in his favor ... 14 times.
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The government manages a lot of things: air and water quality, roads and bridges, and, once upon a time, a whole lot of cheese.
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This is the story of how plastic was invented, and how maybe we went too far with it.
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This is maybe not the best idea.
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For 70 years, a Coca-Cola cost a nickel. The price didn't change. How is that even possible?
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This is the story of how the invention of the 747 and some bad French phone lines led to the creation of the modern credit card.
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A story about hagglers, Quakers and department store founders.
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Just kidding, it was the frozen chicken — then came the American tax that helped shape the domestic market for trucks.
