A stationery shop in Chicago now requires a bouncer — not for crowd control at a nightclub, but to manage the line of people desperate to buy fountain pens and planners. Paper & Pencil, a 400-square-foot Andersonville store, has customers wrapping around multiple blocks. Some waited four hours to shop…
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Lunar Hotel Reservations Are Here — And They Cost More Than Your House
Recently, a startup began accepting lunar hotel reservations — not for a property that exists, but for one that might exist, orbiting the Moon sometime in the unspecified future. The deposit? A quarter of a million dollars. Galactic Resource Utilization Space (GRU Space) is the company behind this. They’re asking…
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Safety, Solitude, and the Strange Popularity of “Are You Dead?”
This week, an app with a name most of us wouldn’t put on a greeting card topped the paid iPhone charts in China — Are You Dead? — and it’s worth stopping to watch what that says about this moment we’re in. You scroll through the story, and it’s almost…