Since When Does Being Famous Make You Worth Listening To?
On the quiet psychosis of celebrity worship — and how we handed our lives, our wallets, and our sanity to people whose greatest skill is being watchable.
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The plants in the greenhouse were stressed. They had been left without water for several days, or had their stems cut, or had been left alone. And they were, as it turned out, making noise about it.
Not noise you can hear. The sounds registered between 20 and 100 kilohertz