The Morning News

Portraits of red-eyed subjects, by Ghanaian artist Annan Affotey.

↩︎ Colossal 2d

To use a computer analogy, gendered behavior comes from running different software on the same basic hardware.

Except for a simple difference in size, there are no meaningful differences between men’s and women’s brain structure or activity.

↩︎ FastCompany

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The "15-minute city" enables residents to meet their needs within a quarter-hour walk. Now Sweden is pursuing the "1-minute city."

↩︎ Bloomberg 2d

Pixar is using colors in its films that your screens aren't yet advanced enough to display.

↩︎ WIRED 2d

Report from an attempt to bicycle a motorike itinerary through California's Death Valley. "It was the most alive I’ve ever felt."

↩︎ The Radavist 2d

On the morning of April 24, 1933, five thousand Chicago schoolteachers stormed the lobbies of the five largest financial institutions in the Loop.

Making the case for a new Reconstruction Finance Corporation—to become “a new bulwark for states and cities against the market.”

↩︎ Phenomenal World

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Astrologer Susan Miller rotates between five different MacBook Pros to write her horoscope columns.

↩︎ New York Magazine 2d

Phoebe Gavin: “A calling isn’t a job or an industry. It’s an activity or an impact.”

↩︎ Source 2d

Photos of the "orchestrated beauty" of American funeral homes, by Rachel Cox.

↩︎ Booooooom 3d

Police are purchasing "vehicle forensics kits" to access data stored in cars—including information synced from smartphones.

↩︎ The Intercept 3d

A fascinating, in-depth look at the history of art in the Oval Office, an "ultra-high-profile rotating exhibition space."

↩︎ The New York Times 3d

“I remember someone telling me that the reason they were talking to me was because they were afraid people would die if they didn’t. That just really hit me in a way that it hadn’t before: People could literally die if we did our jobs wrong.”

The COVID reporters are not OK.

↩︎ Study Hall

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A motorcycle airbag vest company's subscription payment option prevents the vest from inflating if payments don't go through.

↩︎ VICE 3d

Effectively shut down during the pandemic, some nightclubs have temporarily converted into exhibition spaces.

↩︎ The Guardian 3d

Health researchers suggest that getting a different Covid vaccine for your second shot might produce a better immune response.

↩︎ NPR 3d

It’s funky fonts. It’s the closing sequence for any romantic comedy filmed between 1988-1993. It’s basically all of Pretty Woman. It’s the parents from Rugrats. It’s a very Boomer “Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow” circa 1992 vibe.

On Spago Rock.

↩︎ The Melt

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A postmortem on Bernie Sanders' brief primary lead reveals the forces of reaction—and the need for mass organization on the left.

↩︎ The Baffler 3d

A giant sequoia tree in Northern California is still smoldering from the 2020 Castle Fire, showing how dry the area is.

↩︎ The Fresno Bee 3d

A Chinese rocket has overshot its orbit and will break apart—though not burn up—and fall somewhere on Earth.

↩︎ The Guardian 3d

A 78,000-year-old girl discovered near Kenya's coast is the oldest human burial found in Africa (but not the world).

↩︎ Science News 3d