The Morning News

Surreal animations invade the real world.

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In an annual event, sorters from libraries around the US compete to see who can process the most items in one hour.

↩︎ Atlas Obscura 2d

Yet another midterm surprise: Progressive policies won support in conservative districts, and vice versa.

↩︎ The New York Times 2d

The Texas Board of Education votes to include slavery as a cause of the Civil War in social studies curricula.

↩︎ NPR 2d

↩︎ TMN Newsletter 2d

More jobs than homes: A Seattleite lets in New Yorkers on all the ways Amazon is about to annihilate their city.

↩︎ BuzzFeed News 2d

A stylized visualization of nearby exoplanets.

↩︎ Hugh Osborn 2d

An ecological wonderland for now, Yellowstone Park's flora and fauna are already changing due to global warming.

↩︎ The New York Times 2d

Drawings and paintings of everyday objects, not always arranged in everyday ways, by Carl Hammoud.

↩︎ Booooooom 2d

Like tree rings, whales' earwax plugs offer a glimpse into history. Right now, rising cortisol levels point to new stressors.

↩︎ Ars Technica 2d

Facebook is obviously bad for individuals and society. An argument for the "moral imperative" of quitting Facebook.

↩︎ Quartz 2d

As the lines started to build up, his employees got stressed out, and the stress would cause them to not be as friendly, or to shout out crazy long wait times for burgers in an attempt to maybe convince people to leave, and things fell by the wayside.

A food writer reckons with the knowledge that his glowing review killed a restaurant by overwhelming it with too much business.

↩︎ Thrillist

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The Editors' Longreads Picks

As medical technology, human augmentation, and hacking grow and converge, we're now closer than ever to Ghost in the Shell.

↩︎ Boing Boing 2d

How David Hockney's record-breaking painting was originally created.

↩︎ Christie's 2d

Hockney's Portrait of an Artist (Pool With Two Figures) sells for $90.3 million, the most ever for a living artist's work.

↩︎ The Guardian 2d

Saw the mounted policemen again. Picked up my run as I headed due East, now on the south side of the reflecting pool. Snow in my face, the flakes smaller, more biting now, maybe sleet. It had changed.

Beto O’Rourke gets back to his emo roots in a Medium post.

↩︎ @BetoORourke

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Photographs of people using smartphones.

↩︎ The Atlantic 3d

Japan's newly appointed minister responsible for cybersecurity admits he's never used a computer before.

↩︎ Reuters 3d

A good guide as to the current state of Brexit.

↩︎ BBC News 3d

"Sometimes a narrative can satisfy because it is beguiling, not because it is true." How podcasts work.

↩︎ The New Yorker 3d