Weekend reading: "Empire of dust" edition
The forgotten end of the second world war (The Spectator, Francis Pike)Empire of dust: what the tiniest specks reveal about the world (The Guardian, Jay Owens)
View ArticleWeekend reading: "Taliban's luxury hotel" edition
Inside the Taliban's luxury hotel (Andreas Babst (text), Elise Blanchard(images), Neue Zürcher Zeitung)Great news — social media is falling apart (Shubham Agarwal, Business Insider)
View ArticleWeekend reading: "Free will" edition
Yes, We Have Free Will. No, We Absolutely Do Not (Dan Falk, Nautilus)The people who ruined the internet( Amanda Chicago Lewis, The Verge)Notes on Guinea(Matt Lakeman)
View ArticleWeekend reading: "Too much stuff" edition
A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft (James Somers, The New Yorker)Too much stuff: can we solve our addiction to consumerism? (Chip Colwell, The Guardian)The People Who Didn’t Matter to Henry...
View ArticleWeekend reading: "Freeing ourselves" edition
The South Korean woman who adopted her best friend (Hawon Jung, Aljazeera)Freeing Ourselves From The Clutches Of Big Tech (Cory Doctorow, Noema Magazine)The Inside Story of Microsoft’s Partnership with...
View ArticleWeekend reading: "Messed up hands" edition
Why Are AI-Generated Hands So Messed Up? (Pranav Dixit, BuzzFeed)How Denmark’s Welfare State Became a Surveillance Nightmare (Gabriel Geiger, Wired)The Timeless Draw of Decorating Cookies (Joan Bailey,...
View ArticleWeekend reading: "Textpocalypse" edition
Prepare for the Textpocalypse (Matthew Kirschenbaum, The Atlantic)The Untold Story Of Andrew Tate, The Internet’s Most Notorious Influencer (Tom Warren and Ikran Dahir, BuzzFeed)On the Trail of the...
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Weekend reading: "Metaverse" edition
How Your Native Language Changes The Structure Of Your Brain (Stephen Luntz, IFLScience)Who Is Still Inside the Metaverse? (Paul Murray, New York Magazine)
View ArticleWeekend reading: "Naughty nuns" edition
Naughty Nuns, Flatulent Monks, and Other Surprises of Sacred Medieval Manuscripts (Hunter Oatman-Stanford, Collectors Weekly)The Big Coin Heist (Alexander Huls, Hazlitt)
View ArticleWeekend reading: "Luxury water" edition
Putin, Trump, Ukraine: how Timothy Snyder became the leading interpreter of our dark times (Robert P Baird, The Guardian)Inside the Very Real (and Very Complicated) World of Luxury Water Collectors...
View ArticleWeekend reading: "Scarlet letter" edition
The Problem With Weather Apps (Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic)Diseases Didn’t Just Shape History, They Control the Future (Amit Katwala, Wired)Crooks’ Mistaken Bet on Encrypted Phones (Ed Caesar, The New...
View ArticleWeekend reading: "Britain is dead" edition
Britain Is Dead (Samuel McIlhagga, Palladium)There Is No A.I. (Jaron Lanier, The New Yorker)The Hacker (Maddy Crowell, Columbia Journalism Review)
View ArticleWeekend reading: "The spine collector" edition
The Spine Colector (Reeves Wiedeman and Lila Shapiro, Vulture)On the trail of the Dark Avenger: the most dangerous virus writer in the world (Scott J Shapiro, The Guardian)The Untold Story of the...
View ArticleWeekend reading: "Dog's life" edition
The free dogs of India (Krithika Srinivasan, Aeon)'iPhones are made in hell': 3 months inside China's iPhone city (Viola Zhou, Rest of the World)The First Social-Media Babies Are Growing Up—And They’re...
View ArticleWeekend reading: "No wash" edition
The rise of the 'no-wash' movement (Matilda Welin, BBC)How some people get away with doing nothing at work ( Emily Stewart, Vox)Travel in the Time of Climate Crisis (Rachel Nuwer, Audubon Magazine)
View ArticleWeekend reading: "Naked Greeks" edition
All those naked Greeks… (Sarah Murray, Aeon)AI Is a Lot of Work (Josh Dzieza, The Verge)The unsolved mystery of Europe's oldest language (Tim Brinkhof, Big Think)
View ArticleWeekend reading: "Victoria Amelina" edition
Ukraine and the meaning of home (Victoria Amelina, The Guardian)Lessons From the Catastrophic Failure of the Metaverse (Kate Wagner, The Nation)The Romance Scammer on My Sofa (Carlos Barragán, Atavist)
View ArticleWeekend reading: "Russian propaganda" edition
I Watched Russian Television for Five Days Straight (Gary Shteyngart, The Atlantic)How Ukraine’s national dish became a symbol of Putin’s invasion (Anya von Bremzen, The Guardian)"We used to check...
View ArticleWeekend reading: "Shoes" edition
A beautiful, broken America: what I learned on a 2,800-mile bus ride from Detroit to LA (Joanna Pocock, The Guardian)Shoes in the Middle Ages (Sandra Alvarez, Medievalists.net)The Wrath of Goodreads...
View ArticleWeekend reading: "LOL" edition
How different languages laugh online (Amy Thorpe and Ravi Hiranand, Rest Of World)Disappearing tongues: the endangered language crisis (Ross Perlin, The Guardian)The strange reasons medieval people...
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