A staged promotional event for “FakeEats”, an app that lets users simulate ordering food without receiving anything, highlighting the growing commercialization of “dopamine shopping.” So with that said, I want to share four of the stranger news stories I’ve read this past month. Mostly bad—in the sense that they impede progress toward sustainability, and sometimes surprising, and certainly worth sharing. (Image from The Wall Street Journal)The first, from The Wall Street Journal, reveals a shift in housing trends in the U.S. Addiction to ShoppingNow, traveling west to South Korea (or east if you want to burn a lot more fuel), we find consumers shopping on fake shopping apps (via this article in The Washington Post).