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Image via Beautiful Decay.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/article\/116808\/who-owns-moon\" target=\"_blank\">Who owns the moon<\/a>? It could be you! (It\u2019s probably not you.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalenquirer.com\/photo-gallery\/enquirer-classic-covers-1960s\" target=\"_blank\">The <i>National Enquirer<\/i>\u2019s sixties covers<\/a> show how the language of scandal has evolved\u2014what used to pass as odious is now just sort of quaint. \u201cI\u2019M A SLOB. I Burp &amp; Slurp in Public,\u201d says one headline. The horror.<\/li>\n<li>Brian Eno has chosen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2014\/03\/03\/brian-eno-reading-list\" target=\"_blank\">twenty essential books for saving civilization<\/a>; I\u2019ve read zero of them.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI thought at the time it was really bad luck to survive. 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