It's Week 3 in the Summer Reading Challenge.

Beach, books, domestic fowl. An American Marriage opens Week Three of the Summer Reading Challenge. With novelist Laura van den Berg.

The Morning News
Sesame Workshop has long operated internationally to help traumatized children—sometimes under authorities' radar.
↩︎ The Atlantic 16m
The NSA's surveillance efforts appear to route through eight AT&T-affiliated buildings in major US metro areas.
↩︎ The Intercept 55m
Laura Ingalls Wilder's name is removed from an award over her dehumanizing, racist depictions of Native Americans.
↩︎ Washington Post 1h
Remembering California's "extraordinary calm" first black widow killer, "The Trunk Murderess."
↩︎ SF Gate 3d
Some say Elon Musk's late-night tweet storms suggest a billionaire cracking up. Ex-employees say it's nothing new.
↩︎ BuzzFeed 3d

"By the way, it was not $3 million to shoot Hunter into the fucking sky," says Depp. "It was $5 million."

A very long, detailed, at times beguiling look into the current trials and financial struggles of Johnny Depp.
↩︎ Rolling Stone
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Psychologists find that audiobooks stir people more deeply than movies or television.
↩︎ Marketwatch 3d
For her visit to an immigrant detention center, the First Lady wore a coat saying "I REALLY DON’T CARE, DO U?"
↩︎ Quartz 3d

On Craigslist, I wasn’t alone. I found a community craving the same thing I did: a connection. Something real.

Before it shut down, Craigslist personals gave us an intimate look “at humanity in extremis.”
↩︎ Quartz
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After the US had its warmest May on record, meteorologists coordinated their outfits to raise awareness.
↩︎ The Huffington Post 3d
In case you were wondering where mathematical typography comes from.
↩︎ Practically Efficient 3d
A new piece of software uses wifi signals to track humans' movements, breathing, and heartbeats through walls.
↩︎ INVERSE 3d
IBM developed a debating AI that can create a full argument in a few minutes when presented with an unknown topic.
↩︎ The Verge 3d
A brief history of the Speak & Spell, "one of the earliest examples of a full-fledged portable gaming machine."
↩︎ Tedium 3d
The question isn't “Could AI have a soul?” It's “Could AI ever soul like we do?”
↩︎ BBC News 3d
Imaginary views from other planets by legendary sci-fi painter Chesley Bonestell.
↩︎ This Isn't Happiness 3d

For good reason, Max Richter's "On the Nature of Daylight" is everywhere—and now it's a video produced by and featuring Elisabeth Moss.

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A bronze statue of Nick Cave wearing a loincloth and riding a horse will be erected in western Victoria.
↩︎ The Guardian 3d
It's true: There's every possibility that parents and children detained at the border may never be reunited.
↩︎ The Atlantic 3d

Aerosol pollution or a volcanic eruption, which both increase how much sunlight is reflected by the atmosphere, can cause changes in rainfall and temperature thousands of kilometers away, months later.

How “teleconnections” explain the process by which melting Arctic ice warms the tropical Pacific.
↩︎ Hakai Magazine
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