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Embedded is your essential guide to what’s good on the internet, from Kate Lindsay and Nick Catucci. I’m freaking out a member of the CDC just called me and told me there’s a new pandemic on the loose. It’s called being chronically online, and one of the symptoms is subscribing to this newsletter. —Kate While the phrase “chronically online” (or “terminally online”) has been in the digital zeitgeist since the mid-2010s, the term has had a 2020s resurgence.

ICYMI, here’s one of my favorite crime stories. It’s a piece I wrote for Vanity Fair about John Bishop, who looked like Sammy Hagar, preached like Billy Graham, and brought a 350-pound tiger to church. Then he shot heroin with his son and was busted at the border for running drugs for a Mexican cartel. New Regency is adapting my story into a feature film starring Christian Bale and written by Charles Randolph, who last collaborated with Bale on The Big Short.

Months ago, I ran out of things to say about the “woke wars,” and I made a conscious effort to stop writing about the issue. With this post, I am backsliding. My readers already know what I think. So although another post might give them a dose of good feelings, it is not going to affect anything. But here goes. My thoughts on the Harvard President situation are expressed clearly and concisely by John Cochrane.

The Los Angeles Clippers and moi ... Let's just say it's complicated. The Buffalo Braves, as many of you probably know by now, were my favorite team as a young Western New Yorker in the 1970s. The team abruptly moved to San Diego to become the Clippers after an unprecedented owner-for-owner trade involving Buffalo's John Y. Brown and Boston's Irv Levin swapping franchises after the 1977-78 season. I was too young to really understand it all at the time, but Levin became the Clippers' owner and moved the team from Buffalo to San Diego .

The quiet retirement announcement by Mutual Fish’s Yoshimura family, in the form of a sign taped to the front door of their Rainier Avenue shop, marks more than the closure of a beloved local business. It symbolizes the decline of a long and diverse history of family seafood businesses in Seattle, and it takes with it the memory of a deep relationship between Japanese and Jewish families dating back to before World War II.

Preliminary note: For Gmail readers, this essay might be clipped due to size limitations. To read the entire essay simply click on “View entire message” at the bottom of the email, thanks. In 840, the Uyghur Khaganate at the height of its power was annihilated by the Yenisei Kyrgyz. The semi-nomadic Kyrgyz from southern Siberia struck seemingly out of the blue. They sacked the Uyghur capital of Ordubaliq, and in an instant shattered the entire Khaganate as a unified political entity.

The Colorado River is over 2300 kilometres long and its headwaters are in the mountains of Colorado and Wyoming. The watershed for the Colorado River covers an area of over 600,000 square kilometres, including parts of Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona and California, as well as the country of Mexico. The map below (reference here) shows the upper and lower basins (watersheds for the Colorado River. Along the Colorado River and its tributaries, there are over 100 dams, including 14 along the main river itself.

This never-before-released interview took place in a San Francisco hotel room on October 22, 1983, during AC/DC’s Flick of the Switch tour. Lead guitarist Angus Young, the man with the million-dollar vibrato, begins with a heartfelt discussion of his brother Malcolm, whom he insists is a far better guitarist. He talks about their older brother George, who found worldwide success with the Easybeats and went on to produce the early AC/DC albums.

Welcome and thank you for checking out Optimise Me, a bi-monthly newsletter sharing research-backed, practical tips to help you optimise your self-growth and personal productivity. Being an adult is long, folks. There’s no way to get around it. It seems that, the older we get, the more responsibilities we have to contend with. There’s nothing that says ‘adult’ like the moment you begin handling your own health and wellness - no longer can you ask your mother to organise your physical, dental and health appointments.