Propeller Pools


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Podcast: Propeller Planes And Early Taylor Swift | Niche To Meet You. The veteran New York Times writer David Brooks shares his own extremely niche hobbies and explores how sharing such interests with others can make us less lonely (57m 00s)


Video: Inside The Nightly Cleaning Of The 9/11 Memorial Reflecting Pools | YouTube | Joshua Charow | 3m 27s

Surely one of the most high pressure pool cleaning jobs in the world. As this arresting behind the scenes film shows, five nights a week three cleaners climb down into the pools at the National September 11 Memorial in Manhattan wearing waders and head torches. They pace every inch of the pools' surface, pushing their equipment. The process takes eight hours, beginning at midnight.


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