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Walking off the plane at the Des Moines airport, travelers are greeted by electronic billboards advertising Iowa’s capital as “America’s Cultivation Corridor” for “innovators, entrepreneurs, foodies” — and futuristic toilets with automated seat covers. It’s an unexpected vibe, and one Iowa is doubling down on, even in rural areas. Look to Jefferson, an hour’s drive from Des Moines.

OZY Newsmakers: Deep dives on the names youneed to know. Scott Morrison spent part of his early career working for the government agency tasked with promoting Australia’s spectacular beaches, rugged mountains and desert plains to the world as a premium travel destination (not the hardest sell).

For centuries, Humberto Limachi’s ancestors have cultivated potatoes and turned them into a freeze-dried product called the chuño. It’s a staple food for Bolivia’s Aymara indigenous community. Limachi teaches his young children how the chuño is prepared. “The potato is our symbol,” he says.

I’d just broken up with my psychotic ex-girlfriend Paula.She was my all-time worst girlfriend and it was quite possibly the worst year of my life. But after we broke up, I had nowhere to go. My grandmother Diane gave me my uncle Johnny’s number. Reluctantly. She didn’t want me to stay with him and told meso. But I quickly got in touch with my 84-year-old uncle, and he agreed to let me stay, right then and there.

It’s a curse to live in interesting times, but if we must do it, we might as well have a little fun. Welcome to the new decade, the 2020s. A century ago, the 1920s saw the invention of modern dating, when men and women stepped out together to the movies instead of chaperoned meetings. So the 2020s have a lot to live up to. Get ready. Throughout 2019, we examined what may be coming down the pike in the world of love, sex and relationships.

Akok Akok had carefully plotted a path to the status of an elite prospect: He was featured on a top AAU club (Mass Rivals) and put in two years at Connecticut’s Putnam Science Academy. He was being chased by top college programs ahead of a postgraduate year. Then he disappeared. Akok withdrew from school with no explanation.

This feature contains graphic content written by a forensics professional about the reality of the ongoing migrant crisis, and may be upsetting to some people. The gates to the morgues are all made of iron. And no matter if they started out black, gray or blue, they are all faded. They mark a border place, where every day death breaks into little parts. Exorcising the fear and crushing it, in small doses, while measuring the lost.

There's more to love than you ever imagined. OZY's Love Curiously explores the many facets of romance and commitment. OZY's Love Curiously explores the many facets of romance and commitment. There's more to love than you ever imagined. OZY's Love Curiously explores the many facets of romance and commitment. We all fall — and, let’s be fair, we all crash sometimes.

We know how to find stories that matter where no one else is looking. At OZY, we constantly strive to keep you ahead of the curve with fresh trends, profiles, experiences and nuggets of history that you won’t find covered elsewhere but that could shape your life. In 2019, we went one step further, adding an edge to our coverage with deeply reported and well-researched investigative stories.

Because the world of entertainment is large — so OZY scanned the globe to bring you the big stories. In our quest to bring you the new and the next, OZY scours the globe to find people doing what they do best — and the past couple of years were brimming with new artists, creatives and entertainers.