"Superfoods" have always been popular especially the search for a superfood but I believe Honey is the closest thing we have to one. Not because eating it and only it will make you the healthiest person alive but because of how it's made and how long it's been around.

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Another Flag one. This one's about my home state's flag. A part of its history that isn't widely spoken of and how it resonates with me always but especially in light of recent events in El Paso Texas.

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Aka "Ramen" except there's so much more to it than just what you buy for cheap and is presented in a foam cup. A little bit of history on both the instant and not instant kind of ramen and the great virtue of the cheap kind. Finally a hope that this kind of thing applies to another food that shares a name with something much more complex...

Examples of Different types of regional Ramen

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Cats and Rodents are some of the most famous whisker having animals but most mammals do except for us. What are the whiskers for? Why don't we have them and maybe why it's not so bad that we DON'T.

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Originally the most american of all Convenience Stores, 7 Eleven is now technically a Japanese company. Hear the story of how that happened and the differences between the 7 Eleven with sticky floors down the street and the one that supplanted it as THE 7 Eleven.

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I don't like baseball but I can't deny Baseball has some of the best stories. Bobby Bonilla day is a great story of greedy owners losing vast amounts of money and a player winning out. Hope for many more of these.

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A 16 story spectacle that the mayor of NYC proclaimed would be a great public space is anything but. Hear all about it and what it means to be a public space.

The Vessel itself

The Curbed NY piece: 'The antisocial stairway of Hudson Yards

The Baffler piece: 'F the Vessel'

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Soccer is pretty much always on TV in the summer of 2019. All of the tournaments on right now can trace their lineage back to the Copa America. Hear about the first one and its most important legacy, and a really ugly one.

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What is a knot? As in that ship is moving at 12 knots. Is it like a click? No? Why do airplanes also measure their speed in knots? What's a really good way to explain a hard concept to the point where almost anyone can understand it?(Hint, it's a knot)

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What's black and thick and spread all over? Asphalt. It's the thing that makes the vast majority of our roads exist and is overseen but essential in making modern society possible.

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