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Everything Now, the Skateboard Edition

To celebrate the release of Everything Now by TMN co-founder Rosecrans Baldwin, we’re partnering with his publisher to give away a skateboard.

by Andrew Womack

"Everybody was looking at antibodies, all this stuff that sounds sexy." The immune system's real secret weapon is pus.

↩︎ The Atlantic 13h

Discriminator is an interactive documentary about how facial recognition works.

↩︎ Discriminator 13h

A tour of Manchester's new "Use Hearing Protection" exhibit, which looks back at the early history of Factory Records.

↩︎ Creative Boom 13h

"An unprecedented study has now confirmed that we probably cannot slow the rate at which we get older."

↩︎ The Guardian 13h

A two-year-old startup that already has 12 million users aims to supplant Facebook Groups. (Now do Instagram.)

↩︎ The Verge 13h

Fourteen million tons of Styrofoam are produced every year; chunks of it break down into particles that enter other objects, including animals. Although Styrofoam is everywhere, one can never point to all the Styrofoam in the world and say, “There it is.”

How the pandemic is an example of a hyperobject—an incomprehensible thing so large that it subsumes us.

↩︎ The New Yorker

13h

Drone footage of Great White Sharks off the coast of California.

via Kottke

13h

Zillow's algorithm is moving to a neural network, where the company claims its home estimates will become even more accurate.

↩︎ WIRED 13h

In an experiment, a four-inch square wooden satellite will be launched into orbit to see whether plywood can survive space.

↩︎ CNET 13h

The AP will longer name suspects in minor crimes, acknowledging that doing so can have lasting, damaging effects online.

↩︎ Associated Press 13h

“The taco holder got great reviews, but there wasn’t much for my phone adapter,” said Jones by email. “You do sometimes see reviews for slightly different items appear on a listing, but this was definitely a new one for me.”

How fake Amazon reviews happen, and how to spot them.

↩︎ The Markup

13h

The ideal workday lasts five hours, which is the maximum amount of time anyone can spend in deep focus in a single day.

↩︎ WIRED 14h

An internet entrepreneur wants to deploy thousands of helmets designed to unlock why different brains operate the way they do

↩︎ Bloomberg 14h

To answer a joke petition: Yes, Jeff Bezos could (easily) buy and (not as easily) eat the Mona Lisa.

↩︎ VICE 14h

“Nomehenge,” in Alaska, refers to a set of Cold War antennas being repurposed for contemporary communications.

↩︎ Atlas Obscura 1d

Ted Gioia: Prepare to "tokenize" your favorite musicians, wherein you'll basically treat like them publicly traded stocks.

↩︎ Culture Notes of an Honest Broker 1d

"I have fallen head over heels for incredibly common birds." Geoff Manaugh spent lockdown losing his mind over mourning doves.

↩︎ BLDGBLOG 1d

In 1999, an F-18 hangar became the world’s largest pinhole camera. The print was developed in a tray the size of a swimming pool.

↩︎ Futility Closet 1d

↩︎ Gumroad 1d