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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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Why Peter Cullen’s Death Hits Gen X So Hard

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By Eric Spitznagel Verified
| AARP
You may not recognize Peter Cullen’s face, but if you grew up in the 1980s, you knew his voice. The Canadian voice actor was Optimus Prime in The Transformers, Eeyore in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, and the source of the Predator’s otherworldly clicks and growls. But it was Optimus who broke the heart of an entire generation.
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How Scrubs (and Time) Quietly Stole the White Coat’s Mojo

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By Eric Spitznagel Verified
| Medscape Verified
The white coat was supposed to make Amber K. Brooks, MD, MS, unmistakably look like a physician. It did not. Early in her career, Brooks, now a professor of anesthesiology and pain medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, wore one over her scrubs in the pain clinic. Patients still referred to the young Black doctor as a nurse or a medical student. She would politely reintroduce herself as Dr Brooks, their pain medicine physician.
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How Columbia House Gave Gen X a Musical Identity for a Penny

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By Eric Spitznagel Verified
| AARP
Columbia House made a penny feel like a winning lottery ticket, provided you didn’t read the fine print too closely. AARP (Getty Images, 6) Columbia House, the mail-order music club that helped millions of kids build record collections for pocket change, is shutting down. The company says it will stop accepting new orders after Sept. 15, bringing its 71-year run to an end.
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