The Morning News

An interactive look at how much energy our inboxes consume.

↩︎ Thanks in Advance 13h

Connecting a love of the outdoors to a distaste for money, which is "dirty, unenlightened, unspiritual."

↩︎ Outside 13h

Minnesota asks people not to release goldfish into the wild, where they can grow over a foot long and threaten indigenous species.

↩︎ The Guardian 13h

"That's what the label pays the TikTok people to dance to." Theories for why there are so many guitars in contemporary hip-hop.

↩︎ Noisey 13h

On summer afternoons, tiny worms emerge from the glaciers of the Northwest—maybe to soak up sun rays, though no one really knows.

↩︎ NPR 13h

Because they won't have to deal with Covid absences, sports teams with more vaccinated players have a better shot at winning.

↩︎ Slate 13h

Psychedelic voyagers without six hours to spare are vaping DMT for a 10-minute excursion—aka "the businessman's trip."

↩︎ VICE 13h

A drone view of the Great Pyramid of Giza shows the extraordinary geometry of the structure in crisp detail.

↩︎ Colossal 13h

Investigating "YouTube voice," or what one linguist calls "intellectual used-car-salesman voice."

↩︎ Vox 14h

Many of California's reservoirs are at or approaching historic lows, and sending just 5% of requested water to rights holders.

↩︎ The Washington Post 14h

While renovating his back steps, a Michigan man has found more than 150 bowling balls—and counting—under the concrete.

↩︎ Detroit Free Press 15h

“Duel” let the mystery of its antagonistic truck driver go unsolved, thankfully... The movie didn’t need a neat explanation to become the model for mechanized mayhem thrillers to come, from “Killdozer” to “Maximum Overdrive” to “The Car.”

On America’s 1970s obsession with made-for-TV mysteries and thrillers.

↩︎ CrimeReads

15h

Like Chernobyl before it, Fukushima is turning out ecological experiments—this one involves radioactive boar-pig hybrids.

↩︎ Inverse 15h

A study finds that we don't just see faces in objects, we also assign emotions to them.

↩︎ Ars Technica 15h

Apple's current weather app will display that it's 70 degrees or 68 degrees—but never, ever 69 degrees.

↩︎ The Verge 16h

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↩︎ TMN Membership 16h

Why we need public data trusts: Scholars could use telecom-derived data for enormous good—but only if it's generated with consent.

↩︎ Nature 16h

A short documentary about Charles Bello, an architect who trained under Richard Neutra in Los Angeles, then moved with his wife Vanna Rae Bello into the remote Mendocino redwoods in 1968, and has lived there ever since.

1d

Lego releases a set replicating Jerry Seinfeld's apartment, complete with a loaf of marble rye.

↩︎ Uncrate 2d

↩︎ John Brosio 2d