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WEIRD

Lifting up an Entire City With Jacks | Tales From the Bottle

Qxir | December 15, 2025

Sadly not a story about history’s strongest man, but lifting an entire city fourteen feet with jackscrews is still pretty interesting! “During the 1850s and 1860s, engineers carried out a piecemeal raising of the level of central Chicago. Streets, sidewalks, and buildings were physically raised on jackscrews. The work was […]

NEWS & CULTURE

What the US gets wrong about minimum wage

Vox | April 29, 2025

Raising the minimum wage doesn’t have to be so hard. Become a Video Lab member! http://bit.ly/video-lab The American federal minimum wage hasn’t gone up in a decade. That’s the longest wait since the US first set a minimum wage in 1938. Today, Congress is debating whether they should raise it […]