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Monopoly is a better game with real money and crime

Monopoly is a better game with real money and crime What if the classic board game had better rules for simulating capitalism? March 3, 2018 at 03:22PM via Digg http://bit.ly/2I2anym
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How Teachers Are Rethinking The Way They Talk About Race In America

You're Paying For Sports Stadiums You Don't Even Go To

Woodworker Crafts A Miniature 1967 Ford Mustang GT500 To Stunning Perfection

How Technology Inspired Feminism And Transformed Masculinity

Big Oil Faded. Will Big Tech?

The Big Business Of 5G Radiation Protection

Bunkers Aren't Just For Preppers Any More

Amazon Wins FAA Approval For Prime Air Drone Delivery Fleet

Miley Cyrus Recreated Her Iconic "Wrecking Ball" Video At Last Night's MTV Video Music Awards

What Will Post-Coronavirus Social Life Really Be Like?

The First Woman Pilot Of The F-35 Fighter Jet Reviews Aerial Scenes From Popular Movies And TV

38 Films We're Excited To See This Fall

John Oliver Rips The RNC Over Lies, Speaks About Kenosha And The Current Climate Of Hate

Ed Henry's Accusers Say His Behavior Was An Open Secret At Fox News

The Most Popular Web Browsers From 1995 To 2019, Visualized

Notes From The Chaos Communication Camp, An Open-Air Hacker Party

How Jack The Ripper Became A Legend

Watch Last Night's MTV VMA Performances

Am I A Jerk For Taking Baths In My Neighbor's Apartment Without His Knowledge, And Other Advice Column Questions

Room Rentals, Resort Fees And Furniture Removal: How Trump's Company Cost The Government More Than $900,000

Need Low-Latency Wi-Fi? This Is The Wireless Router You Want

How Cats And Dogs See The World

How Weeds Are Being Used To Clean Up Oil Spills

Navigating This New Normal, I Went To A Movie, A Soccer Match And A Restaurant

Watch Dustin Johnson Make An Absurd Match Saving Putt

Hundreds Of Pizza Huts Are Closing. What Happens To Those Weird Buildings?

3-Year-Old Girl Gets Carried Away By A Kite In Shocking Footage Caught On Camera

Looking Back At 'Watchmen's Most Extraordinary Episode With Its Director

Russia Recently Declassified Footage Of The Largest Nuclear Bomb Ever Detonated. Here's All The Previously Unseen Footage

'The Wanderers': The Forgotten Great Coming-Of-Age Film

New Yorkers Are Fleeing To The Suburbs: 'The Demand Is Insane'

Dave Grohl Is In An Adorable Remote Drum Battle With A 10-Year-ld

New York Is Dead… To Whom?

How Can Food Help Us Face The Grinding Uncertainty Of Pandemic Life?

Leverage Is Everything

One Of World's Most Dangerous Lakes Is Growing In The Belly Of Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano

This Video Of A Seagull Swallowing A Rabbit Whole Was, Um, Unexpected

Lewis Hamilton Paid Tribute To Chadwick Boseman After Winning The Belgian Grand Prix

One Dead In Portland After Trump Supporters, Protesters Clash

Photos From The March On Washington

COVID-19 Turned My Anxieties About Having A Baby Into Reality

How Corporate Money Has Distorted American Science

The Lonely, Pixelated Hell Of Networking During The Pandemic

Does Facebook Still Sell Discriminatory Ads?

Someone Unearthed The Most Brutally Honest Reaction To A House Makeover Ever

Ransomware Has Gone Corporate. Where Will It End?

They Know How To Prevent Megafires. Why Won't Anybody Listen?

Here's How You Fix A $32 Million Jet Engine

The Screen Time Of 'Its Always Sunny In Philadelphia' Characters Throughout The Series, Visualized

The Battle For The Soul Of The Burger Is Also A Battle About Watermelon

College Is Everywhere Now

Watch Chadwick Boseman Talk About His Relationship With 'Black Panther' Fans Battling Terminal Cancer

This Woman Playing Fetch With Her Neighbor's Dog Through The Fence Is The Sweetest Thing You'll See Today

Seeing Hurricane Katrina In 2020 Vision

Someone Converted An Old Grain Silo Into A Yellow Submarine Tiny House

The University Of Arizona Says It Caught A Dorm's COVID-19 Outbreak Before It Started. It's Secret Weapon: Poop

Elon Musk Is One Step Closer To Connecting A Computer To Your Brain

This Giant Glowing Orb Is The World's First Floating Apple Store

How Tom Cruise Made This Impossible Movie Stunt Possible

A Photographer Shows The Harsh Reality Of Living In 43-Square-Foot Rooms In South Korea

This Video Of Colors Blending In A Letterpress Printing Machine In Slow Motion Is Hypnotic To Watch

How 'Frasier The Sensuous Lion' Fathered 35 Cubs Over 18 Months

Scientists Made An Alarmingly Easy Trip To The North Pole

All The Things Old Pizza Huts Have Become Once They Stopped Being Pizza Huts

What Did You Just Say To Me?

What Ellen's Kindness Concealed

What It's Like To See 'Tenet' In A Movie Theater

This Puppy Does Not Like It When His Owner Messes With His Toys

Chadwick Boseman, 'Black Panther' Star, Dies At 43

And That Was The Hottest Sex I Ever Had

Marsha Jackson Is Trying To Move Shingle Mountain

New Jersey Proposes First-Ever $1,000 'Baby Bond' To Narrow Wealth Gap

COVID Gag Rules At US Companies Are Putting Everyone At Risk

Welcome To The 'Pyrocene,' An Epoch Of Runaway Fire

The Step-By-Step Guide To Forming A Pandemic Pod

The Approval Rating Of US Presidents During Key Historical Events In Their Presidency, Visualized

A Ball Of Bacteria Survived For Three Years… In Space

Someone Put Audio From The 'Cats' Trailer Over 'The Batman' Trailer, And It's Actually Genius

After Anderson Cooper Grills Scott Walker About Civil Unrest, Walker Appears To Turn Off His Camera

Before And After Satellite Images Show Widespread Destruction From Hurricane Laura

Jacob Blake Handcuffed To Hospital Bed, Father Says

Sex Offender Registries Often Fail Those They Are Designed To Protect

The Week's Best Memes, Ranked

The Top 50 Greatest Landfill Indie Songs Of All Time

Melania Trump's Look At Ivanka At The RNC Was Something Else

30 Going On 13: The Adult Actors Who Play Movie Teens

I Learned To Think Like A 'Warrior Cop'

Amazon's 4K Streaming Stick Is 20% Off

Here's An Ingenious Peanut Butter Trick To Keep A Dog Calm During A Manicure

There Are Only 37 Possible Stories, According To This 1919 Manual For Screenwriters

The Path To Destroying Capitalism Might Go Through A Software License

For 90-Year-Old Hiroshima Survivor Kiyoko Neumiller, Every Day Is Another Opportunity For Peace

Down Through The Faulkner Bloodline, Pride And Racial Guilt Commingled

America's Lost Towns Of Black Affluence

Belarus Turned Off the Internet. Its Citizens Hot-Wired It

Chris Webber, Holding Back Tears, Makes A Powerful Statement About The NBA Players' Protest

The Dirty Secret Behind The West's Coconut Fad

Weather Channel Reporter Reports On Hurricane Laura, Nearly Gets Hit By Flying Debris

These Photos Show A Stuntman Jumping Off A Nearly 4,000 Feet Peak In A Wingsuit

Preparing For The Vaccine Results

Those Hurricane Maps Don't Mean What You Think They Mean (2019)

Here's Hurricane Laura's 'Mesmerizing Yet Terrifying' Intensification Over A 24-Hour Span

Those Hurricane Maps Don't Mean What You Think They Mean (2019)

The Story Of How The Australian Government Screwed Its Most Vulnerable People

Heroin's Hidden Ingredient Is A Chemical Made By US Companies

Woman Transforms Into A Siren By Singing In An Echoey Stairwell

Why Does The United States Control All These Random Islands In The Pacific Ocean?

Blue Bloods: America's Brotherhood Of Police Officers

New Zealand Mosque Shooter Sentenced To Life Without Parole

The Dying Art Form Of The TV Commercial

Hollywood's Fame Scholar Is Reinvigorated

Why Netflix Hired Hans Zimmer To Zhoosh Up Its Ta-Dum Sound

The Weather Channel Shows What Hurricane Laura's 'Unsurvivable Storm Surge' Means With Horrifying Augmented Mixed Reality Demonstration

Kenny Smith Walks Off 'Inside The NBA' Set In Support Of Players

Hurricane Laura Is Heading For A City That Can't Take Any More

The Straight Male Thirst For Compliments

The Milwaukee Bucks And Brewers Strike For Racial Justice

'The Batman': Can A Superhero Movie Be Too Dark?

The Conscience Of Silicon Valley

Trump Just Handed Out A Presidential Pardon On TV

The Pit Bull Influencers Reclaiming The Dogs' Image, One Instagram Post At A Time

We Need Change In Sports Broadcasting

Pianist Plays 'Flight Of The Bumblebee' At Superhuman Speed, Makes It Look Like An Extreme Sport

How To Stop Worrying And Love Farmed Fish

The Man Who Broke Through At Yale

'I Moved On Her Very Heavily': Trump's Accusers Speak

This Guy Who Has A Germ-Free Method Of Blowing Out The Candles Was Way Ahead Of His Time

Here Are Some Tricks That Amazon Uses To Get You To Spend More Money On Their Website

Photographer Used His Camera To Recreate Children's Nightmares From The 1960s

Whitney Museum Cancels Show Of Mutual Aid Art After Artists Decry It As 'Predatory'

She Was Sued Over Rent She Didn't Owe. It Took Seven Court Dates to Prove She Was Right

Here Are The Key Moments From Night 2 Of The Republican Convention

Two Killed, One Wounded At Protests In Wisconsin Over Police Shooting Of Jacob Blake

How To Fix Paul George

Guy Builds The World's Longest Skateboard And It's An Epic Ride

What Did You Just Say To Me?

A Massive Earthquake Is Coming To Cascadia — And It Can't Be Stopped

When Did It Become Okay To Text With Your Therapist?

Florida Order Requiring All Schools To Reopen Was Illegal, Judge Rules

Watch How This Ingenious Contraption Of A Spinning Mirror Creates Sound

Here's Why Mia Khalifa Made Way Less Than Lena The Plug In The Porn Industry

Jacob Blake's Father Says Son's Paralyzed From Waist Down After Police Shooting In Kenosha

We Read The New 'Twilight' Book So You Don't Have To

Why We Need Better Chairs

Why Kellyanne And George Conway Finally Went Dark

Millie Bobby Brown Is Sherlock Holmes's Sister In Netflix's 'Enola Holmes' Trailer

Do I Need To Call The Police?

This Guy Trying To Name That Tune Notices This Melody Fits A Lot Of Songs

Here Are The Before And After Photos Of Melania Trump's White House Rose Garden Renovations

How A Brand Of Chalk Achieved Cult Status Among Mathematicians

Kimberly Guilfoyle's Speech At The Republican National Convention Was, Uh, Memorable

Here Is Dave Chappelle's First TV Appearance In 1990

An Ode To Anime's Best Cooking Scenes

'This Is So Much Bigger'

How One Of Mexico's Largest Migrant Camps Has Avoided A COVID-19 Outbreak

Here Are The Key Moments From The First RNC Night

My Son Is Looking To Me For Answers — And I Don't Have Them Anymore

Who's Paying $5,000 For One Houseplant? More People Than You'd Think

What Happens When A Party Gives Up On Ideas?

Why The Bloody Mary Mirror Illusion Actually Works

Why Are The NBA's Ratings Going Down?

How A Ukrainian Oligarch's Companies Got Paycheck Protection Program Loans

Guy Teaches His Dog To Respect And Bow To His Cat

'Natural' Doesn't Always Mean 'Good'

The Broken Algorithm That Poisoned American Transportation

Guy Made Fox News Into An '80s Power-Pop Song, And It's A Real Earworm

This Guy Was Bored, So He Made His Dog The Star Of An Over-The-Top Action Movie

Inside Kobe's Two Legendary Careers

Newsweek And The Rise Of The Zombie Magazine

Journalist Goes To A South Korean Love Motel, Tries To Find All The Spycams Hidden Inside

Remember The '90s, Don't Long For A Return

John Oliver Points Out All The Ridiculous Problems Going On With Trump's Border Wall

Zuckerberg Warned Trump And Lawmakers About The Dangers Of Facebook's Rival TikTok

A 200-Year-Old Gift From Benjamin Franklin Made Boston And Philadelphia A Fortune

Someone Did A De-Aging DeepFake Of Robert De Niro In 'The Irishman,' And It Looks So Much Better

This Video Of A Crocodile Floating In The Water Is Unintentionally Hilarious

Kellyanne Conway To Leave The White House At The End Of The Month, Citing The Need To Focus On Her Family

How Police Are Using 'Super Recognizers' Like Me To Track Criminals

Kenosha Shooting: Wisconsin Police Shoot Black Man As Children Watch From A Car, Attorney Says

Why We Shouldn't Glorify Running Fast In Hot Weather

Inside The Sprint To Map The Murder Hornet Genome

How 'Rumor Clinics' Fought Fake News 80 Years Ago

Is My Mother-In-Law Co-Opting Another Culture By Asking For Our Child To Call Her 'Meemaw,' And Other Advice Column Questions

I'm A Mail Carrier, And Trump Is Definitely Trying To Affect The Election

Surviving Irma: A Next-Generation Hurricane

Watch 21-Year-Old Luka Doncic Sink A Game Winning Three, With Four Seconds Left

A Rocket Scientist's Love Algorithm Adds Up During COVID-19

How A Hiker Accidentally Discovered The Oldest Fossilized Footprints Ever In Grand Canyon

You Can Eat The Head Of A Sunflower Like Corn On The Cob

How To Make A Great Anime Adaptation (2019)

A Salute To Michael Keaton's Deceptively Normal 1980s Comedies

Cellphone Data Shows How Las Vegas Is 'Gambling With Lives' Across The Country

The Fascinating Story Of The Girl Who Survived A 10,000-Foot Fall

Damien Echols Spent 18 Years On Death Row For A Crime He Didn't Commit

A 194-Year-Old Apple Tree, The Matriarch Of The Northwest Apple Industry, Has Died

Storms Marco And Laura Are Poised To Give The Gulf Coast A Deadly One-Two Punch

Couples Therapists Review Ross And Rachel's Relationship From 'Friends'

Trump's Sister Says He Is A Liar With 'No Principles' In Secret Recordings

The Worst Animal In The World

Goodbye To 'Patriot Act', A Comedy Show That Was A Different Kind Of Angry

This Stop-Motion Basketball Short That Uses Sunlight And Water Is A Slam Dunk

Healing In The Hospital Starts With The Architect

Facing The Pandemic, I Was As Helpless As Anyone. But As A New Grandmother, I Was A Culinary Superpower

Predicting The 2020 NBA Playoffs And Champion At The Bubble

California DMV Is Selling Drivers' Data To Private Investigators

The Land-Grant Universities Still Profiting Off Indigenous Homelands

The First Trailer Of Robert Pattinson's 'The Batman,' Introduces A Dark And Gritty Gotham City

The Gaming Fan Who Accidentally Became A Historian

Our Favorite Stories This Week

Tear Gaslighting: Is There A Link Between Protesting And Messed Up Periods?

'Wonder Woman 1984' Trailer Reveals Kristen Wiig As The Villainous Cheetah

Giant Panda Mei Xiang Gives Birth At National Zoo

A Powerful Black Leader. White Opposition. Criminal Charges. An Old Pattern Continues In Portsmouth

How A Day Trip To Tulsa In June Upended Donald Trump's Reelection Campaign

The Worst Tourist Attraction In Every State In America, Visualized

Two Weeks For Joe Biden's 24 Minutes: Inside The Rapidly Planned Democratic Convention

Court Orders Donald Trump To Pay Legal Fees In Stormy Daniels Suit

How Dollar General Conquered Rural America

Inside The Deep, Dark Roku Underworld Featuring Terrorists, Conspiracy Nuts, And Bill O'Reilly

Someone Dumped Mentos Into 10,000 Liters Of Coca-Cola And It's Spectacularly Satisfying

Guy Delivers An Impeccable Impression Of Trump Complaining About Scooby-Doo

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Reveals Her Beauty Routine Before Going To Work In Congress

First Ever Double Hurricane Could Hit The Gulf Of Mexico

Hitler's Plan To Destroy NYC: It Was Plausible, And It Almost Happened

Inside The Democratic Party's Plan To Prevent Vote-By-Mail Disaster

The Boundary Pusher

Here's What You're Getting With The World's Most Expensive Luxury Sedan

'It Was Great': In Leaked Audio, Trump Hailed Low Black Turnout In 2016

The Inside Story Of Robinhood's Billionaire Founders, Option Kid Cowboys And The Wall Street Sharks That Feed On Them

Someone Made An Animated Fan Tribute To 'Calvin And Hobbes' And It's Awesome

How Much Is An Album Worth In 2020: $3.49? $77? $1,000? Maybe $0

Am I A Potato Chip Addict Or A Victim Of Food Science?

Watch Joe Biden's Full Speech At The DNC 2020

How Are Tsunamis Formed?

Wait! Did You Bring Protection?

How '(I've Had) The Time Of My Life' Saved 'Dirty Dancing'

How To Win In Formula One: Is It The Driver Or The Car?

Teen Who Saw Dad's Murder Confronts 'Golden State Killer'

When Asbestos Was A Gift Fit For A King

Here's Every Crappy 'Entrepreneur' Ad You've Ever Seen

We Two Made One (2000)

Watch Joe Biden Speak During The Final Night Of The Democratic National Convention

Why Are We Still Getting Junk Mail And How Are People Making Money From It?

Madison Cawthorn Is The Future Of The Republican Party

Russian Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny Is In A Coma After Apparently Being Poisoned

Virtuoso Pianist Performs The Melody Of Every 1980s Pop Song

Social Media, Loneliness And Rabbit Holes To Radicalism

The $60-Billion Industry Behind Brazil's Exploitation Of The Amazon Rainforest

Migrant Children Detained In Hotels By Private Contractors

Victorians Dig Up A Fortune After Finding Two Gold Nuggets Worth $350,000

Why Are There So Few Black Directors In The Criterion Collection?

They Were Famous — And Delivered Your Mail

Vivian Stephens Helped Turn Romance Writing Into A Billion-Dollar Industry. Then She Got Pushed Out

Yet Another Man Laid Low By An All-Meat Diet

An Icelandic Ritual For Wellbeing

Steve Bannon Arrested And Charged With Fraud

America's Most Flamboyant Private Eye And The 8,000-Mile Manhunt

Joseph Gordon-Levitt Reveals Why He Was 'Embarrassed' To Star In '10 Things I Hate About You'

Capturing The Secrets Of The New York City Subway

'I Just Don't Hear It'

Watch A Silverback Gorilla And His Son Study A Caterpillar With Utmost Concentration

How The Haters And Losers Lost (2016)

Cincinnati Reds Announcer Thom Brennaman Suspended After Using Homophobic Slur On Air

Russia Opposition Leader In Coma In ICU After Alleged Poisoning

Apple, Epic And the App Store

'Flight Simulator' Players Are Flocking To Jeffrey Epstein's Private Island

Watch The First Two Hours Of MTV Remastered From Its Original 1981 Broadcast

4 Key Takeaways From The Third Night Of The Democratic National Convention

Watch Barack Obama's Scathing DNC Speech: 'Trump Hasn't Grown Into The Job Because He Can't'

The Only Thing 'The Simpsons' Predicted Is Our Stupidity

The Computer Game That Led To Enlightenment

Here's Why Jackie Chan Is Really Unpopular In Hong Kong

The Golden Age Of Computer User Groups

Trump Wants To Build A Wall Around The Internet. How Worried Should We Be?

Watch Kamala Harris, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton Speak During Night 3 Of The Democratic National Convention

Some Stereo Company Actually Sold This Turntable/CD Changer Combo Monstrosity

'Succession' Ruined The 2005 Movie 'Pride & Prejudice' For Me

Boredoom Is The Perfect Term For The Crushing Mix Of Boredom And Anxiety In 2020