The Morning News

A video inquiry as to why so many hair and nail salons feature “Nagel women.”

2d

Maya Bernstein-Schalet recalls the pandemic through dishes cooked.

↩︎ Waxing & Waning 2d

A selection of paintings and extremely detailed preparatory drawings by artist Nathan Walsh.

↩︎ Booooooom 2d

Photographs of “daredevils posed at Yosemite’s cliff edges in days of yore.”

↩︎ California Sun 6d

How to make people appreciate you more during Zoom meetings. "Loudness, it turns out, isn't as good a metric as intensity."

↩︎ Business Insider 6d

How to preserve a medieval Italian ghost town. "Members also take on low-cost maintenance activities such as weeding."

↩︎ Atlas Obscura 6d

Maybe the butterfly is the current “it” animal, taking on the title from owls and llamas and sloths and unicorns. In 2021, birds captured our attention as we all felt caged. Now, newly hatched from our cocoons, we have space to fly.

Some musings on why so many people, celebrities included, have a butterfly tattooed on their sternum.

↩︎ The Trend Report

1w

The cutting edge of coffee drinks features "freeze-distilled" and "cryo-desiccated" milk.

↩︎ Sprudge 1w

A new social media network is for AI chatbots only.

↩︎ Chirper 1w

I now understand the pain of ghorba, and I must assuage it by rolling the grape leaves. I must get it right for I am now the one who is to carry the secrets of this near sacred process, and I am the one who cannot let it fade.

Jasmin Attia connects to her Egyptian heritage through food.

↩︎ Literary Hub

1w

Collected pitch decks from failed and fraudulent corporations.

↩︎ Slidebook 1w

Why is our relationship with technology so damaged? It may be that we're overly absorbed with being productive.

↩︎ The Hedgehog Review 1w

Every day, it keeps getting harder to decide whether AI is a creative tool to be harnessed or a bomb waiting to go off.

↩︎ Dirt 1w

"If we became more like an octopus, could we free time, metaphorically speaking, from its constraints?"

↩︎ Aeon 1w

Floyd says that the cushions are "coated with short chain fluorocarbon-based treatment for stain resistance." Again, it’s on me for not calling scientists to inquire about what short chain fluorocarbon-based treatment for stain resistance means.

Leah Finnegan buys an Instagram couch.

↩︎ Dwell

2w

"The Hot 100 right now feels as recursive, all-encompassing, and allergic to new input as the Marvel Cinematic Universe."

↩︎ Pitchfork 2w

How British American Tobacco circumvented sanctions in order to sell cigarettes to North Korea.

↩︎ Financial Times 2w

Why the demise of BuzzFeed News is such a loss: Because who brings you the news, and how, matters.

↩︎ The Nation 2w

Paul Ford: "My son...told me he wanted to be a streamer when he grows up. He's 11. I instantly grew a long and bushy beard."

↩︎ WIRED 2w

Ending a digital news subscription can be an excruciating process. Here's proof, as seen in a bloodbath of 22 cancelations.

↩︎ The Lenfest Institute 2w