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More and more nations—now including Canada, Australia, and New Zealand—say they’re willing to recognize Palestine. / DW
Only 32 percent of Americans approve of Israel’s military action in Gaza. / Al Jazeera
A couple ways America’s world order might collapse? Losing a war, an economic collapse, or Trump breaking all the rules we depend on. / Bloomberg [$]
After recent cuts, the US will be without an Antarctic icebreaker for the first time in more than five decades. / Science
An 8.8-magnitude earthquake in Russia triggers tsunami warnings in Russia, Japan, and the western US. / TIME
A test of cloud-seeding tech was thwarted last year. Meanwhile, billionaire backers planned a much larger sequel, and it may still be on. / Politico
In the next 25 years, the African continent reportedly will add around 900 million new urban residents, “more than the current urban population of Europe and the United States combined.” / asterisk mag
In Kenya, some runners dope in order to escape poverty. / The New York Times [$]
The cheapest way to invoke horror? A mask. / Precast reinforced concrete heart
Some miniature works depict contemporary plights, invoking classical Greek and Roman sculpture. / Colossal
A tech columnist argues you should use a password manager for all of your secret information. / The Wall Street Journal [$]
A man turns a drawing into audio, which encourages a starling to basically compose a picture of itself? / YouTube
Unrelated: A PDF of an essay from 2000 by Wendell Berry about why he’s not going to purchase a computer. / Matthew J. Brown
Some thoughts on the set design of Sesame Street and the work of Jane Jacobs. / Kottke
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