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it's tuesday june 14th 2020 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today. The history and future of the design of the American shopping mall. Plus, a new test that can more accurately assess your immunity to COVID-19. And Coca-Cola is releasing a new Jack and Coke canned

cocktail. Meanwhile, fans have created a Healthy Coke hack, which I tried out in the first

ever Cool Stuff Ride Home Taste Test. Here is some cool stuff for your ride home.

When's the last time you went to the mall?

Not just to pick up a couple of things at specific stores, but to actually spend time hanging out in the food court, window shopping, and meeting up with people. I might be a little biased because

malls are more rare

in New York City. Manhattan doesn't really lend itself to the monolith that is the suburban mall,

but it doesn't seem like people just hang out at the mall in the same way they used to, at least not

in a way that defines a culture like the mall did in the late 80s and early 90s. In fact, malls

these days are sometimes viewed as a bit of a dying breed. Thanks to online shopping, many

of them have literally shuttered their doors, and a lot of people would say good riddance. But a new

book out today from architecture critic Alexandra Lang called

Meet Me By the Fountain in Inside History of the Mall defends the iconic institution

in several ways that I at least hadn't quite thought of before

and offers some ideas about what might be to come, how we can make magic again from

quote the dystopian husk of an abandoned shopping

center that has become one of our era's defining images, end quote. The defining image of our era

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