Welcome toReading List , Gizmodo ’s Sunday afternoon roundup of the best writing from around the entanglement . This week , we ’ve got smashing stuff and nonsense from Wired , The Washington Post , and more . Let ’s dig in !
One of Starbucks ’ interfering fix is the on - campus java shop at CIA home base . Inside , it looks like any other enfranchisement coffee shop , but thing run a little differently here : There ’s no customer dedication card , and baristas do n’t spell the customer ’s name on his or her cup . Emily Wax - Thibodeaux takes us on a visit to the populace ’s most secure Starbucks . [ The Washington Post ]
Until the Civil War , U.S. wagon train tracks were make in two unlike widths — the track were three inch nigher together in the North than they were in the South . After the warfare , the rails were converted to the Northern standard over just a two - day geological period . The madcap work that went into convince half a land ’s railroads in just 48 hours stands as one of the loyal base inspection and repair in story . [ Kottke ]
Douglas Coupland make us to “ a state of profound brilliance , ” housed in an retiring and neglected New Jersey industrial coordination compound : Bell Labs , where telecommunication conception that will underpin the futurity of the internet are dreamed up . [ electrify ]
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