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Announcing the 2022 Tournament of Books

Here are the shortlist, judges, and Zombie poll for the 2022 Tournament of Books, presented by Field Notes.

The largest oil and gas companies made $174 billion in profits in the first nine months of the year as gas prices climbed.

↩︎ The Guardian 11h

I couldn’t consider abortion or adoption, but the weird thing is I also couldn’t consider having a baby. I never decided; I never chose.

One of the best essays we’ve read in a while: “The Abortion I Didn’t Have” by novelist Merritt Tierce.

↩︎ The New York Times Magazine

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The Editors' Longreads Picks

Why study the history of ideas? You might be able to put old ideas to use, and you may better understand people in the present.

↩︎ Good Optics 12h

Researchers find that a 10% rise in average Amazon wages is associated with an increase of 2.3% at non-Amazon firms.

↩︎ National Bureau of Economic Research 12h

The largest annual drug survey finds Australians getting much drunker than everybody else, with fewer expressed regrets.

↩︎ VICE 12h

A vinyl record costs ~$7 to manufacture, and a band typically sells it directly to fans for $25 — good for $18 in profit... A band would have to amass 450k streams on Spotify to match the profit of 100 vinyl sales.

Seventeen million vinyl albums were sold In the first half of 2021—an 86% jump from 2020.

↩︎ The Hustle

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One theory on why the threat to Roe may not save Democrats in 2022: we now live in a post-outrage world.

↩︎ Politico 12h

Elizabeth Spiers: As an adoptee, I'm floored by the idea that adoption is a desirable option for unexpectedly pregnant women.

↩︎ The New York Times 16h

A visual history of the abortion battle in the United States.

↩︎ The 19th 16h

The average sale price of 75 percent of NFTs is $15. Only one percent of NFTs reach prices higher than $1,500.

↩︎ ARTNews 16h

A woman moves to San Francisco to rescue her addict daughter, who admits to overdosing on fentanyl "at least 50 times."

↩︎ The San Francisco Chronicle 3d

Interview with a woman who has cleaned nearly 60,000 hotel rooms. “The job keeps me confident.”

↩︎ AFAR 3d

An appreciation of TMN favorite artist Sophie Calle, with pictures from when she posed as a hotel maid to document rooms.

↩︎ The New Yorker 3d

Photographs from the Yellowstone Archive of people feeding bears in the 1950s and '60s.

↩︎ Flashbak 3d

Think piece of the week: A common, bad question to ask in science is "does x affect y?" Because the answer is always yes.

↩︎ The Eighteenth Elephant 3d

There's mounting evidence that insects can experience a remarkable range of emotions.

↩︎ BBC News 3d

Unless you’re a butcher or a sociopath it’s very intimidating to sink your knife into a piece of meat this big. It was actually more gruesome than I had imagined.

Tammie Teclemariam acquired a salt-cured hind quarter of a pig from Costco and has been slicing it ever since.

↩︎ Gawker

Dueling taco maps: One shows every business in Los Angeles that sells tacos, another shows places with "taco" in its name.

↩︎ L.A. Taco 3d

In 2021, a man used bogus suicide notes to escape the law. In 1318, a nun used a dummy crafted in her likeness.

↩︎ Lapham's Quarterly 3d