The Morning News

Norway's putting its money where its mouth is with a new 200-krone note featuring cod, aka "white gold" for the world's second-largest seafood exporter.

So a catchy music video—“Torsken kommer II: Torske kroner nå” (“The Cod Is Coming, Part II: Cod kroner now”)—made sense for promotion efforts.

23m

British police quit sharing Manchester intel with the US after multiple leaks wind up in American media.

↩︎ The Guardian 26m

Some vivid interviews with people who've been struck—or, more accurately, "side-splashed"—by lightning.

↩︎ Mosaic Science 40m

Blind baseball announcer tries to create "a theatre of the mind" for listeners, stuffed with stats and analysis.

↩︎ CBC Radio 43m

Democratic leaders urge patience on impeachment; having Trump in office is "the gift that keeps on giving."

↩︎ The New York Times 47m

You have to think that you're working for a movie company, and you're trying to translate a Western movie into Persian.

Siavash Ardalan, reporter and interpreter for BBC Persian, explains what makes Trump so difficult to translate live (e.g., so many synonymous terms).
↩︎ NPR

1h

Known best as cocky Gilfoyle on Silicon Valley, Martin Starr's full of doubt as a space gardener in this radio play.

↩︎ The Organist 16h

Economics without politics or history is just a parlor game, shows a new collection responses to Thomas Piketty.

↩︎ Economist 16h

Case of Colombian grad student facing jail for sharing an article on Scribd highlights zeal of U.S. copyright law.

↩︎ Stat News 20h

Sharing names in the Internet age, Julie Becks finds all the other Julie Becks—and finds they share a flavor.

↩︎ The Atlantic 20h

"Selfies aren't the only thing Paris did first": Hilton created the modern "influencer" mode of celebrity.

↩︎ W Magazine 20h

The Professional Putters Association uploaded nearly 50 years of its televised Putt-Putt championships.

↩︎ Digg 21h

These are the victims of the Manchester terror attack.

↩︎ BuzzFeed 21h

The president’s first foray overseas is giving the rest of the world its first real glimpse of America’s new governing structure—a White House that has quickly become an all-in-the-family business, standard practice in Saudi Arabia, but rare in the United States.

Trump abroad invites the outside world to cringe right along with America.
↩︎ The New York Times

22h

A guide to conservative publications, with their relative insanity levels measured in goatee length.

↩︎ The Outline 22h

Google will start matching real-world purchases to your online ID—it's time to do all your shopping on the dark web.

↩︎ The Washington Post 22h

The American Society for Microbiology's third annual Agar Art contest winners, who grow their works with microbes.

↩︎ Discover 24h

From the attic: "The Lesser Bonds," including Alan Cumming, who decided 007 plays the viola.

↩︎ The Morning News 1d

Yet another front in the Boomer v. Gen X cultural hackles: whether Connery or Moore was the better Bond.

↩︎ The New York Times 1d

New trees from Myoung Ho Lee's series of arboreal portraits—half botanical field studies, half studio portraiture.

↩︎ Yossi Milo Gallery 1d