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Weekend Reads 9/10/16

This Celebrity Chef Wants to Revolutionize Your Burger

Indeed, Patterson and his business partner, Los Angeles food truck king Roy Choi, admit that their mission is a little crazy: They promise to use high-quality ingredients and pay employees a living wage—all while keeping prices low. (A cup of coffee is $2 and a cheeseburger costs $5.)

No Man’s Sky is an existential crisis simulator disguised as a space exploration game

Unlike most games, which program individual objects to behave as desired, there’s a consistent internal physics controlling everything in the game, from the flora and fauna to the rotation of the planets. The universe in No Man’s Sky is so big that no one, including its designers, will ever see all or even most of it. Exploring every planet would take billions of years.

It's time for American sports to ditch the national anthem

Playing the national anthem before games of national teams makes sense. Games in the NFL, MLB or any of our other leagues are games between privately owned corporate entities, which are plenty American in their own right, but hardly warrant shows of national pride unless we are celebrating our foolhardy use of tax dollars on stadia built for billionaires.

Native Americans Fighting To Protect Sacred Land Find Ally On Mainstream News

Sioux protestors, along with environmentalists, celebrities and members of other Native American tribes, have strongly opposed the pipeline, which would run near their reservation in North Dakota. They say it would disturb sacred land, including burial sites, and affect the tribe’s drinking water.

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