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Media Got the Hospital Story Wrong

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Reason

Joan Baez: ‘I talk to trees to get answers. They give it to you cold turkey’

As a documentary of her life is released, the folk singer answers your questions on spirituality, competing with Joni Mitchell and running around naked at Burning Man

The Guardian - UK

Burning Man attendees share ordeal with urine bottles as clean-up begins after exodus – updates

Organisers have three weeks to clear the sprawling Nevada desert campsite

The Independent UK

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Climate activists protested at Burning Man. Then the climate itself crashed the party

Burners were forced to endure hours of torrential rains before tens of thousands bailed on the festival. Scientists warn that such large bursts of showers are a result of a warming planet.

WEKU

Burning Man attendees share ordeal with urine bottles as clean-up begins after exodus – live

Organisers have three weeks to clear the sprawling Nevada desert campsite

The Independent UK

From Burning Man to Woodstock to Fyre Festival: what turns a festival into a disaster?

This year’s Burning Man Festival in Nevada has been washed out and 70,000 attendees are stuck in the mud. Summer rains have hit its desert location and, as we regularly find in the Australian Outback, when fine and dusty desert soils get wet, they are like glue. Transport becomes near…

The Conversation

Burning Man is ending, but the cleanup from heavy flooding is far from over

The rain clouds have passed and the temple has burned

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Snorting drugs in drenched yurts and tales from the Burning Man 'mudpocalypse'

The deluge that turned the playa into a giant mud pit forced revelers to hunker down in drenched tents, but calls for caution and sobriety were interpreted loosely.

Fortune

Yes, it’s OK to laugh at wealthy Burning Man attendees mired in muck

Maybe it feels satisfying to see the US elite in discomfort because we’re so unlikely to see them face accountability in normal life

The Guardian - US

Burning Man festival attendee’s suspected cause of death revealed as mass exodus continues – live

Exodus from the Burning Man festival continues with officials saying frustrated attendees ‘lashed out’ at each other in the chaos

The Independent UK

Fake social media posts on Burning Man festival stir conspiracy theory frenzy

Rumors and fake posts about an Ebola outbreak posted on TikTok and Twitter led to a rapid spread of misinformation

The Guardian - US

Burning Man death caused by suspected drug intoxication

Leon Reece, 32, was found unresponsive on the remote and weather-hit Nevada festival grounds on Friday

The Independent UK

Mocking Burning Man's muddy catastrophe

Memes about the trapped festivalgoers remind us of the Titan submarine that captured the nation this summer

Salon

Princess Stephanie of Monaco’s daughter Pauline documents exit from Burning Man amid rain

Burning Man officials lifted driving ban on Monday

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Marjorie Taylor Greene claims Burning Man disaster was an ‘act of God’ and trapped revellers are ‘brainwashed’

Rampant – and debunked – conspiracy theories have spread online about the chaotic festival in the Nevada desert

The Independent UK

Burning Man attendees reveal how they’re dealing with festival amid the mud and rain

Despite the festival grounds turning into a massive mud pit, ‘Burners’ did not let that stop them from creating art and partying

The Independent UK

Wait times to exit Burning Man drop after flooding left tens of thousands stranded in Nevada desert

Partygoers stranded for days at the Burning Man festival by a late summer storm were allowed to start leaving Monday afternoon after muddy roads dried up enough for them to begin their exodus from the northern Nevada desert

The Independent UK

Viral country star Oliver Anthony among those ‘trapped’ at Burning Man amid flooding chaos

More than 70,000 people were trapped at Burning Man festival in Nevada as heavy rains flooded the desert

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The Independent UK

Ted Cruz tries to reclaim joke amid Burning Man chaos after he fell for shark hoax

Texas senator was duped by the decade-old ‘Hurricane Shark’ hoax during Tropical Storm Hilary

Evening Standard

OPINION - NSPCC child protection alert over VR abuse: Tech and Science Daily podcast

Plus, Burning Man rain ‘monsters’ & comet Nishimura

WEKU

Burning Man attendees say learning to live with the unexpected is part of the program

Organizers had asked attendees to shelter in place on Saturday, as torrential rains turned the desert site into a mud pit. A driving ban has since been lifted, but exiting is still a trek.

The Independent UK

Burning Man revellers ‘lash out’ at each other during exodus from washout festival

After an exhausting weekend, revellers grew impatient as they endured eight-hour waits to leave the desert site

The Guardian - UK

Why all the Burning Man schadenfreude? Where do I start ...

Everyone piled in on the private jet-flying tech bros getting bogged down in the rain and mud. Can anyone blame us, asks Arwa Mahdawi

Fortune

Burning Man’s CEO insists there’s no reason to ‘panic’—despite Biden being briefed on thousands of attendees being trapped in the desert

"This is not ending the Burning Man event by any stretch, it just makes us stronger."

The Independent UK

Nevada sheriff bats away wild conspiracy theories about Burning Man festival

Claims of an Ebola outbreak at Burning Man were debunked by local authorities, as thousands leave the festival

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