Yes, I certainly believe that a man who ran a business selling forged artworks actually buried a valuable treasure which has been found by someone "back East."

Answering the question "What else could happen this year?"

Blogworthy. Thank you for posting this.

It's sad that its newsworthy that someone was both a scientist and a politician.

Such a pleasant contrast to the string of expletives that so many people use whenever a mishap occurs on video.

Bookmarked for later reading.

Paywall at the link. What DOES it eat?

oops. trying again -
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/354/mistakes-were-made

There is a fascinating https://www.thisamericanlife.org/354/mistakes-were-made">This American Life podcast that deals with this subject:

To echo the comment at the source: "Sin pantalones?? "

Here's what will happen: the car announces "the light coming up will turn yellow in 3 seconds", so the driver hits the accelerator to beat the light. Driver in crossing road is told light will turn green in 3 seconds, so they don't bother to slow down for the intersection...

Miss C, you might appreciate a poem by Denise Levertov. It's about plants, but it's also about human relationships -
http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2013/11/can-someone-identify-partially.html

It's very important not to burn books unless you disagree with them.

Another viewpoint -
https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/603451/overtourism/

To add to the problem, when thrift stores can't sell the massive supply of donated clothing they receive, they ship it off to third-word countries, where the arrival of free things like t-shirts suppresses the native businesses of growing cotton, making cloth, designing clothes, etc.