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Five Minutes in an Underground Espresso Bar (Painting-Essay) - New Yorker

I took the subway to Fulton, exited toward John Street, and found Voyager Espresso, a coffee bar with a William Street address that’s hidden in the recesses of the subway below the Financial District.

Burger

The Invisible Catastrophe - NYT Magazine

Over the course of four months, 97,100 metric tons of methane quietly leaked out of a single well into California’s sky. Scientists and residents are still trying to figure out just how much damage was done.

Fries

The Road to Excellence is paved with a few lapses on the way - Aeon

On 11 October 1726, Benjamin Franklin stepped off the Berkshire and breathed in ‘the fine weather’ of Philadelphia. After spending two years in London learning the printing trade, he had crossed back over the Atlantic on a 12-week voyage that left him nauseated but craving the comforts of America. Within three years he would be publishing The Pennsylvania Gazette, a popular daily newspaper, followed by the indispensable Poor Richard’s Almanack. But on that fine October day, the 20-year-old had another idea – an idea that had him scurrying to his room to find his quill pen and a bottle of red ink.

Pie

A Life in Check: Chess is Hard. Life is Harder. - The Big Roundtable

After doling out some chess wisdom, Gregory takes the seat reserved for the instructor of the games, an elevated green chair, and says to no one in particular, but to everyone who is playing: “Life is like a game of chess. But life is hard.” Like Plato lecturing in his academy. The game has been more than an analogy of life for Gregory, however. Chess has consumed him.

Funnies

Garfield minus Garfield