The Morning News

Camp ToB 2019

Week Three: Daisy Jones & the Six

This week, we kick off our second book of the summer: a dive into the sex, drugs, and rock and roll of the late ‘60s LA music scene.

by The Tournament of Books Staff

Once thought to date back to the Iron Age, some human-made islands in Scottish lochs may have been built in the Neolithic era.

↩︎ Atlas Obscura 47m

Around 11 million acres of land has been stolen from black Americans—much of it in the past 50 years.

↩︎ The New York Times 48m

↩︎ TMN Newsletters 1h

Microbiologists warn that climate change could wreak havoc on microbes—which are needed for, among other things, producing oxygen.

↩︎ Quartz 1h

At black and Puerto Rican bars, parties, and picnics in New York City, “people had to provide their own entertainment. All the queens lip-synced and vogued—though I don’t think we had a word for voguing.”

Nicole Pasulka on the history of lip-sync performances in the drag world.

↩︎ Slate

Paintings of fires—some close, some in the distance—blend realism and post-impressionism styles, by Daliah Anmar.

↩︎ Booooooom 3h

After a two-year increase in auto fatalities, deaths decreased last year—possibly due to improved safety technologies in new cars.

↩︎ The New York Times 3h

All of the Democratic presidential candidates, save Biden, answer simple questions on camera.

↩︎ The New York Times 1d

"That’s what it was: a genocide. No other way to describe it." Gavin Newsom apologizes to California’s Native Americans.

↩︎ The San Francisco Chronicle 1d

It's only a promo video for a fashion show—Charles Jeffrey Loverboy, in Brexit-era London—but still it's beguiling to watch ‘80s club kids conjured up for today.

A study finds that Facebook posts, when combined with demographic data, improve predictions for 18 of 21 diseases.

↩︎ VICE 1d

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter takes a picture of a new impact crater.

↩︎ HiRISE 1d

"If you care to look, you will see so much." London photographer Liz Johnson reflects on documenting the black diaspora.

↩︎ i-D 1d

William Langewiesche goes deep on Malaysia's missing flight 370, finding more riddles with the police than in the sea.

↩︎ The Atlantic 1d

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To My Boys: Never work in coal mines. Henry, and you Condy, be good boys and stay with your mother and live for Jesus.

Letters from Tennessee miners written while they were trapped underground in 1902.

↩︎ Flashbak

The Vatican will consider ordaining older married men to address a shortage in clergy.

↩︎ BBC News 1d

The Supreme Court could stand to learn from census field researchers tracking "hidden homes" in California.

↩︎ The New York Times 1d

Democratizing China as a whole? It is important for Westerners to step out of their bubbles and consider exactly why so many Chinese are simply not looking in that direction.

Protests in Hong Kong: great. But the Chinese Communist Party is remarkably popular inside China.

↩︎ Bloomberg

The number of people displaced worldwide by war, persecution, and violence would amount to the world’s 20th most populous country.

↩︎ The Associated Press 1d