The Morning News

An appreciation of neighborhood hardware stores.

↩︎ Places 2h

Still divided on the Anthropocene, geologists revolt over adding another era—the Meghalayan—to the Holocene.

↩︎ The Atlantic 2h

A New Zealand firm trials a four-day workweek, with no reduction in pay, and experiences no loss in productivity.

↩︎ The New York Times 2h

They are prioritizing their white interests, their misogynist interests, their homophobic interests, their xenophobic interests, their Christian nationalist interests, etc., etc, over their class interests.

Unraveling the myth that poor white Americans “vote against their interests” by supporting Trump.

↩︎ Lawyers, Guns & Money

2h

From the filmmaker: "Taking inspiration from my favorite designers of all time, Fortunato Depero, Enzo Mari, Bruno Munari, I tried to create, like them, an uncommon product for children and grownups." The result is a buoyant, illustrated underwater journey—that's accompanied by a modular card game.

2h

My cousin Chioma, a doctor in Lagos, told me that she feels anguished when she watches movies about slavery. “I cry and cry and ask God to forgive our ancestors,” she said.

Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, “My Great-Grandfather, the Nigerian Slave-Trader”

↩︎ The New Yorker

3h

The US hasn't acknowledged the theft last year of plutonium—still missing—from a truck at a Texas Marriott.

↩︎ The Center for Public Integrity 3h

"When somebody's obituary appears in the New York Times, FOIA the Dead sends an automated request to the FBI."

↩︎ FOIA the Dead 3h

An incredible comparison of the skin color ranges covered by different makeup foundation brands, US and global.

↩︎ The Pudding 3h

Twice last week, boxes of tortilla chips at a factory in Austin, Texas, spontaneously combusted.

↩︎ CBS Austin 3h

"Self-made billionaire" Kylie Jenner and $25/hour Money Diarist articles reveal a system that's shafted millennials.

↩︎ Washington Post 3h

None of the various hypotheses for Trump being a Russian pawn quite pan out—which leaves collusion as a possibility.

↩︎ Bloomberg 4h

But I share this narrative; it lives inside me. It’s one that the research backs and one that helps explain why, by all accounts, I was an exuberant and extroverted kid before and have since become neurotic and anxious, distant from my parents.

Angela Chen on personal narratives, and how at two, hers was changed by a years-long separation from her parents.

↩︎ Catapult

4h

Stills from Tyrell Spencer's *Cidades Fantasmas*, a film about abandoned South American towns.

↩︎ This Isn't Happiness 4h

Nixon reached out to South Vietnam’s government telling them to reject the deal and wait for better terms under a future Nixon administration. South Vietnam held out, Nixon was elected by a narrow margin, and the Vietnam war ground on for four more years.

When Nixon committed treason in 1968, and LBJ—like Obama—stayed silent to avoid partisan accusations.

↩︎ The Guardian

4h

A new concept for a funeral center celebrates the deceased's life, and focuses on transitional spaces.

↩︎ designboom 4h

Republicans are actively eroding public health care, which could strengthen Democrats' midterm platform.

↩︎ The New Republic 5h

Polls of Americans under 30 vary wildly—anywhere from 28-48% say they'll definitely vote in the midterms.

↩︎ Vox 5h

Rarely seen, high-resolution outtakes from the 1969 moon landing.

↩︎ Quartz 5h

There are now six movies and one documentary in development about the Thailand cave rescue.

↩︎ The Guardian 8h