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Thu. 11/18 - AMC Will Soon Deliver Popcorn to Your Home


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Will we soon have a new Planet Nine? The first human trial for an Alzheimer’s nasal vaccine is about to be under way. And Papa John’s has changed their name. Technically. And AMC Theaters has said, “movies, who? Never heard of her. We’re a popcorn company now.”

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    Planet 9: Old data could uncover the Solar System's newest world, 38 years late (Inverse)
  • A 1980s Space Telescope May Have Seen Planet Nine (Gizmodo)
  • Mysterious Object Glimpsed Decades Ago Might Have Actually Been Planet Nine (Science Alert)
  • In Depth | Hypothetical Planet X (NASA)
  • First human trial of Alzheimer's disease nasal vaccine to begin at Boston hospital (CBS News)
  • Brigham and Women’s Hospital is testing a nasal vaccine for Alzheimer’s disease (Boston Globe)
  • Business Insider catches up with disgraced Papa John Schnatter (A/V Club) 
  • Papa John's redesigns its logo and stores (CNN)
  • Papa John's drops apostrophe, is now Papa Johns (The Takeout) 
  • AMC Theatres Will Start Selling Popcorn Outside of Movie Theaters (Variety)
  • AMC to start delivering popcorn straight to your house (A/V Club)
  • The end of “click to subscribe, call to cancel”? One of the news industry’s favorite retention tactics is illegal, FTC says (Nieman Lab)
  • Cancelling Cable (Saturday Night Live, YouTube)
  • Kottke.Org
  • Jackson Bird on Twitter
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