The Morning News

The prospect of getting a do-over, however, brought your friends who love you enough to be honest with you to the fore in the spirit of making you feel better while also forcing you to realize that these loving critics have secretly long-pitied your god-given cup size.

Nell Boeschenstein on breast reconstruction after a total mastectomy.

↩︎ Granta

11h

The University of Akron cuts 80 degrees, like graduate physics, to make way for world-largest e-sports facilities.

↩︎ The Chronicle of Higher Education 13h

To appreciate the scale of the Hajj—two million Muslims journeying to Mecca—try aerial photography.

↩︎ Quartz 15h

A new book says the 2008 financial crisis never ended—it became the end of the post-cold war order.

↩︎ Quartz 15h

Scaring people into selling shares and buying other assets is great for commissions, but it does little to help investors wisely deploy their capital.

US stocks may be poised to enter the longest-ever bull market, but that depends on how you define bull market.

↩︎ Bloomberg

15h

In case you're at the beach and one of these comes lumbering along, don't worry, it's just a "strandbeest."

16h

Among the world's top 10 busiest air routes for 2017, none include New York or London.

↩︎ The Spectator Index 16h

Beneath the bullying, Trump's message on NATO is similar to that of every US administration since World War II.

↩︎ The New York Review of Books 16h

You're playing a style of play you don't want to play and feeding right into how he wants to play. The next thing you know, you've lost 6-2, 6-2 and are feeling like an idiot.

Different professional tennis players talk about what it’s like to play against Roger Federer.

↩︎ ESPN, the Magazine

17h

Am I even Korean anymore if there’s no one left in my life to call and ask which brand of seaweed we used to buy?

“Crying in H-Mart,” Michelle Zauner’s touching memorial to her mother.

↩︎ The New Yorker

17h

Francis Ford Coppola confirms Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves might be legally married by accident.

↩︎ The Guardian 17h

The traditional "rat maze" has been replaced—and significantly improved, scientifically—by a milky bath.

↩︎ Slate 17h

As long as you're going to make a sculpture, why not make one that competes with a 747, or the Empire State Building, or the Golden Gate Bridge.

Michael Heizer’s life-long “City” project is possibly the largest piece of contemporary art ever attempted.

↩︎ Double Negative

17h

If you're an adult who has trouble making friends, your problem may start with your own flakiness.

↩︎ Vox 17h

The Pacific Northwest has a smoke problem this summer.

↩︎ Mother Jones 17h

“Fur-ternity leave” is a new HR term for the ability to stay home for a week to welcome a new pet.

↩︎ Fortune 17h

Protesters tear down a Confederate statue in North Carolina. In 2017, UNC spent $390,000 on the statue's security.

↩︎ The Raleigh News & Observer 17h

A collection of archival photos from 1900 to 1910, manipulated into otherworldly images by Peter Franck.

↩︎ LensCulture 1d

If the moon's ice is water, future explorers may not need to carry as much water, and a lunar base is more feasible.

↩︎ ABC.au 1d

Women's jean pockets are an average of 48% shorter and 6.5% narrower than men's—but our phones are the same size.

↩︎ The Pudding 1d