☀️ Awesome Things 198: Avicii Doc, Plastic Breakdown, Glitter Pickles, Gen-Z Confused by Money, Why NA Beer is So Spendy
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On to this week’s Awesome Things:
Avicii: I’m Tim - Avicii’s Struggles and Creative Brilliance
I’m Tim is an intimate portrait of an artist who reshaped electronic music while quietly battling inner demons.
Of all the docs and shorts I’ve seen about Avicii, this one focuses on his struggles as a creative person living someone else’s version of the dream life. While Avicii was living the dream, Tim Bergling was suffering in silence.
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Research team stunned after unexpectedly discovering new method to break down plastic: 'The plastic is gone ... all gone'
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Can Someone Please Tell Me What Is Going on With Glitter Pickles?
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This tiny robot will huff and puff to cool hot drinks and food.
Nékojita FuFu is another unusual robot creation from Yukai Engineering.
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Why Is Non-Alcoholic Beer So Expensive?
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Gen Z cashiers can't recognize real cash, think they're "counterfeit"
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The way we live in the United States is not normal
Why we are buying land in Italy
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Three-years-long time lapse of my growing cubicle garden
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Leftovers
✅ A 23-year-old Santa Cruz local caught a towering wave near Half Moon Bay that was recently estimated to be 108 feet tall, which would make it easily the world’s largest wave ever surfed.
✅ “Alright tell me a movie that made you stare blankly at a wall for 20 minutes after it finished. One that you couldn’t stop thinking about and made you question everything.”
✅ The Parker Solar Probe is the first ever to “touch the sun,” and it recorded these sounds of the solar winds
✅ Tree.fm: Tune Into Forests From Around The World. Escape, Relax & Preserve.
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