Fun fact: It's illegal for trucks or buses to idle for more than three minutes in New York City, and the limit drops to 60 seconds around schools. Amazing fact: Rafil Kroll-Zaidi estimates he made $150,000 last year by taking more than 2,000 videos of idling scofflaws and sending them to the city. Keep reading Caity Weaver calls it the "Perpetual Penny Paradox." In a New York Times Magazine story about the American coin, she tries to understand why the US keeps minting them when almost nobody uses them. Keep reading
"Toilet paper is shrinkflation at its absolute worst," laments writer Mark Dent over at the Hustle. His deep dive into the ever-dwindling size of the rolls confirms what many have suspected for some time. Keep reading The science behind what we know as "shaken baby syndrome" has been called into question in recent years, and the controversy is about to reenter the spotlight in a big way in Texas. There, Robert Roberson is scheduled to be executed on October 17 over the death of his 2-year-old daughter, Nikki Curtis, in 2002. Keep reading It might be natural to assume the Ozempic center of America is a wealthy, image-conscious place like Hollywood. But as Madison Muller, Devin Leonard, and Tanaz Meghjani write for Bloomberg Businessweek, that assumption is off by about 2,000 miles. Keep reading
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Saturday, September 14, 2024
He Made $150K Taking Videos of Idling Trucks (Newser Deep Dive)
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