Wed. 1/27 - Putting Your Money In GameStop is Old News

A brief dip into the GameStop Wall Street mayhem. A new water-is-wet kind of study proving that money indeed can buy you happiness. And the story of some students who just found out their new professor this semester has been dead for two years.

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Links:

• How GameStop found itself at the center of a groundbreaking battle between Wall Street and small investors (The Guardian)
• Happy birthday, Guy Fieri (Garbage Day)
• Send This to Anyone Who Wants to Know WTF Is Up With GameStop Stock (Vice)
• Brief GameStop explainer and updates (William LeGate, Twitter)
• The First National Bank of GameStop (Kottke)
• Can Money Buy You Happiness? Yes, But There's a Catch (Bloomberg)
• Dead Man Teaching (Chronicle) 
• Teacher tweets (Aaron Ansuini, Twitter)
• Kottke.Org
• Jackson Bird on Twitter