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Eric Spitznagel is a frequent contributor to magazines like Playboy, Men's Health, The New York Post, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, The New York Observer, Maxim, Billboard, Details, Esquire, The Believer, and the New York Times Magazine, among many others. He's a former Deputy Editor and Executive Writer for Men's Health. He’s the author of ten books, including his most recent, Old Records Never Die: One Man's Quest for His Vinyl and His Past (Plume 2016).

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Selfie culture has doomed the world's most precious tourist sites

Selfie culture has doomed the world's most precious tourist sites

Instagram posts of the blooming poppy fields in Lake Elsinore last March inspired thousands to flock to the s…

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Why New York harbor is the cleanest it's been in 110 years

Why New York harbor is the cleanest it's been in 110 years

Cleaner waters have led to a boom in lots of marine life. Last summer, a construction worker at Pier 40 in do…

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How the Yankees' first and only mascot became a total embarrassment

How the Yankees' first and only mascot became a total embarrassment

Inside the costume was Rick Ford, a 22-year-old Ithaca College grad from Greenwich, Connecticut, who had been…

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What It's Like to Be a Moon Landing Conspiracist in 2019

What It's Like to Be a Moon Landing Conspiracist in 2019

Welcome to Apollo Week, celebrating 50 years since the Apollo 11 mission, explaining what it means today, and…

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Inside the 10-year summer road trip of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford

Inside the 10-year summer road trip of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford

In 1918, four men on a road trip across Pennsylvania encountered trouble. A bouncing rock punctured their car…

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Inside the hellish workday of an Amazon warehouse employee

Inside the hellish workday of an Amazon warehouse employee

She'd been warned by her supervisors that it would be physically demanding. She'd be on her feet for 12-hour …

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What really happens when a language dies

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What really happens when a language dies Original

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Sophia Smith Galer first understood language loss as a sound coming from upstairs. Her 93-year-old nonna was in bed in north London, speaking al dialët, the family’s regional language from northern Italy, with Galer’s mother. Galer could understand much of it, but she couldn’t answer in it. “I remember going home afterwards and feeling real sorrow, almost a kind of pre-grief for what I understood I was beginning to lose,” Galer told The Post.
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What Ken Burns Wants His Grandchildren to Know About America

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For Ken Burns, loving America means telling the whole story, including the parts that still demand more from us. Peter Arkle Editor’s note: Ken Burns has spent more than four decades telling America’s story through landmark documentaries including The Civil War, Baseball, Jazz, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea and The Vietnam War. His latest PBS series, The American Revolution, revisits the country’s founding as America approaches its 250th birthday.
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