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This nice guy owns Nat Geo now.
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staffers share stories that fascinate, alarm, amuse, or inspire us.
Hey, did you read:
• About the woman who wrote
a smug essay about her neo-Victorian lifestyle and the
hilarious responses to it? —
Aimee Levitt
• This
rumination on the middle-aged white male poet who found it much easier to place his poems when he adopted a Chinese nom de plume? —
Tony Adler
• The origins of the 1930s catchphrase
"free, white, and 21"? —
Aimee Levitt
• That
National Geographic sold its magazine to Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox? —
Deanna Isaacs
• About
Indiana's Fair Oak Farms, one of the nation's largest dairy operations—and a sustainable one that "reuses everything in sight"? (It's also a tourist attraction.) —
Kate Schmidt
• That
you can buy vacant lots in Pullman and Roseland for a buck? —
Gwynedd Stuart
• About the new mural in the south Loop that supports
a woman's right not to smile whenever a catcaller asks her to? —
Aimee Levitt
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