The Morning News

Liminal photos of ice castles, by Frankie Carino.

↩︎ Booooooom 2d

A research exercise finds nuking an incoming asteroid early enough could prevent "99% or more" of the debris from hitting Earth.

↩︎ Gizmodo 2d

A single film prop with two tubes and flashing lights has been used in countless sci-fi movies and shows.

via Kottke

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Missouri's governor wants to prosecute a journalist who discovered a state web app exposed educators' Social Security numbers.

↩︎ Motherboard 2d

The rectangular panels you see on almost all new constructions are there to conceal an air gap that protects the structure from decay.

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Today's algorithms inequality began with 19th-century railroad barons, whose libertarian streak beget the rise of Silicon Valley.

↩︎ Fast Company 2d

Data visualizations explain how, at companies where institutional sexism exists, fewer women reach executive levels.

↩︎ The New York Times 2d

"We love to tell ourselves these stories about who we are and aren't." Why generational labels are bullshit.

↩︎ The Atlantic 2d

"Goodness knows when my house will be built. I don't." Letters detail the time Edith Carlson fired Frank Lloyd Wright.

↩︎ The MIT Press Reader 2d

Toppling statues doesn't always kill them. Many still manage to find their way into storage, for who knows what purpose.

↩︎ Hyperallergic 2d

Mexico City's most populous neighborhood is particularly dangerous for women. A new lighting and art project can only do so much.

↩︎ The New York Times 3d

A different side of the statue-removal conversation: Beijing wants gone Hong Kong's memorial to victims of the Tiananmen massacre.

↩︎ Vox 3d

A kid explains how he rickrolled every network display in his high school district, then avoided getting into trouble.

↩︎ WhiteHoodHacker 3d

A new building in Harlem features a furniture system, designed by former Apple and Tesla engineers, to whisk away your stuff.

↩︎ designboom 3d

If the human body were a building, our neck would arguably be "the most poorly conceived room in the house."

↩︎ Salon 3d

Excerpts from a 15th Century guide to fighting and self-defense.

↩︎ Flashbak 4d

“Very few people would think, I want to learn about blockchain, I’m going to read this romance.”

A new sub-genre of romance fiction emerges: the Bitcoin bodice ripper.

↩︎ Alison Fensterstock

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This week's white paper to wonder about says billionaires are better-looking than average for their age.

↩︎ National Bureau of Economic Research 4d

Steven Connor pays tribute to sand in an unexpectedly good essay. "The desert does itself like an incalculable sum."

↩︎ Public Domain Review 4d

A moving story of a man who befriended his brother's murderer. “For me and the life that I lived, it was unusual."

↩︎ The Los Angeles Times 4d