A four-person team from Reuters will review user-generated video and photos as well as news headlines and other content in English and Spanish submitted by Facebook or flagged by the wider Reuters editorial team. https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/12/reuters-facebook-fact-checker/

The Vanderbilt’s home on 5th Ave, NY, late 1800s https://halfpuddinghalfsauce.blogspot.com/2011/12/beetleheads-640-fifth-aveune.html

My Amazon review of _The New Orleans chef's table: extraordinary recipes from the Crescent City_. It's armchair travel for foodies more than "what shall we make for dinner tonight, honey?" #cookbooks #cosobookclub https://amzn.to/39F6JHT

You get to reboot any TV show, and give it a twist. What gets made?

"The troubled cocoa supply chain is a relic of colonization that persists in the present-day." https://www.sapiens.org/culture/cocoa-production/

“The most efficacious love magic is the water that has been used to bathe the body of a dead leatherworker.” https://daily.jstor.org/whats-in-a-love-potion/

TIL Dylan's "Blood on the Tracks" was based on Chekhov short stories https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/oct/28/bob-dylan-more-blood-more-tracks-raw-painful-birth

Rick Moranis to make Honey I Shrunk the Kids reboot after 23-year break. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/feb/13/rick-moranis-to-make-honey-i-shrunk-the-kids-reboot-after-23-year-break

Sign me up!
https://www.elitedaily.com/p/9-airbnbs-with-libraries-that-belle-from-beauty-the-beast-would-book-21793113

The most iconic tearjerkers and empowerment anthems in music history https://www.theringer.com/music/2020/2/14/21137264/50-greatest-breakup-songs-ever-ranking

This Is Taco Nation
Also TIL you can take a Taco Literacy class at St. John’s University in Queens
https://www.bonappetit.com/story/taco-nation

For $5, a Texas zoo will name a cockroach after your ex. And then they’ll feed it to an animal. https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/09/us/san-antonio-zoo-cockroach-valentines-day-trnd/index.html

From 2016: "In the face of the impulse to normalize, it is essential to maintain one’s capacity for shock. This will lead people to call you unreasonable and hysterical, and to accuse you of overreacting. It is no fun to be the only hysterical person in the room. Prepare yourself." https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/11/10/trump-election-autocracy-rules-for-survival/

"Something strange is happening in the North Atlantic. For the past three years, airplanes have been flying across the ocean in record time. Credit the jet stream." https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2020/02/11/surfing-the-jet-stream-reduces-aviation-radiation/

>>The profession is a peculiar and exciting one, but all right if pursued in the right way. Although the calling takes one into dirty and obnoxious places, there is no reason why the Rat-catcher should not always appear respectable.

https://london-overlooked.com/ratcatcher/

It's the feathers that make this so cool. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2020/february/british-dinosaurs-to-feature-on-coins.html

Selected from over 48,000 submitted images and 25 impressive finalists, Rowley’s winning photo is called “Station Squabble,” and it features two mice getting into a tussle over some leftover crumbs in the London Underground.
https://petapixel.com/2020/02/11/subway-mouse-fight-wins-peoples-choice-for-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year/

Body Shop will start hiring the first person who applies for any retail job https://www.fastcompany.com/90462746/the-body-shop-will-start-hiring-the-first-person-who-applies-for-any-retail-job

How to optimise your headspace on a mission to Mars
> Despite years of research by NASA and others, scientists have little insight into the psychological, neurological and sociological problems that will inevitably afflict space travellers
https://aeon.co/ideas/how-to-optimise-your-headspace-on-a-mission-to-mars

On answering questions kids ask about death https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/12/will-my-cat-eat-my-eyeballs-how-caitlin-doughty-teaches-kids-about-death