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Shadowy still-lifes by Alex Selkowitz.
↩︎ This Isn't Happiness 9h

Despite all my years of studying brain disorders, for the first time in my life I realize how profoundly unsettling it is to have a brain that does not function.

After brain cancer affected her behavior, a neuroscientist comprehends mental illness in new ways.
↩︎ Quartz
9h
A drug ring tried to transport meth disguised as Aztec calendars and statues.
↩︎ LA Taco 9h
The soothing geometry of farmland, captured in aerial photos.
↩︎ Quartz 9h
Internists are to Hercule Poirot as surgeons are to Sherlock Holmes.
↩︎ Literary Hub 9h
A sortable database of paper airplane designs, with folding instructions.
↩︎ Fold N Fly 13h
Tom Scocca: We plan our families without regard to the one fact we refuse to discuss: We're gong to die, sooner rather than later.
↩︎ Hmm Daily 13h
The Houston Chronicle, which recommended Ted Cruz in 2012, endorses Beto O'Rourke for US Senate.
↩︎ The Houston Chronicle 13h

I waded into the water and it was very soft on my skin and refreshing, a little bit cool but not too cold... Daddy was begging me to rush so he could watch the World Cup final, but I like to take my time about things so I ignored him.

The eight-year-old Swedish girl who pulled an ancient sword from a lake writes about the experience, and she is amazing.
↩︎ The Guardian
14h
The 19th-century maps of Emma Willard—possibly the first American female cartographer—charted Native Americans' dispossession.
↩︎ Atlas Obscura 14h
The founder of a company that ships abortion-inducement medication to your home launches a new service that delivers to the US.
↩︎ The Atlantic 16h
US Fish and Wildlife tells staff to be less transparent in FOIA responses, in order to avoid fueling endangered species lawsuits.
↩︎ The Guardian 16h

It’s coming from the same place. Some kind of dog-whistle or some shit. Like, “Can we make it more authentic?” I’m often accused of not being “authentic” enough, and people don’t even realize how vile of a thing that is to say.

Open Mike Eagle on the enduring realities of Robert Townsend’s Hollywood Shuffle and the marginalization of black actors.
↩︎ Vulture
16h
The Guardian's experiment in memberships is working: It now gets more revenue from readers than from advertisers.
↩︎ Digiday 16h
Fake Murder She Wrote title cards.
↩︎ @Jbfletch_ebooks 17h
Twenty percent of DC-area construction workers are in an immigration program Trump wants to end.
↩︎ Washingtonian 17h
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↩︎ TMN Membership 1d

For example, if it is desired to make a record to guide the driver from Chevy Chase to the Treasury Department, the record among other things would contain the directions ‘U street turn to the left.’ 

From a 1916 patent for a phonograph in your car to play audio recordings to help you navigate.
↩︎ Futility Closet
1d
The south-western Chinese city of Chengdu plans to launch an illumination satellite, or fake moon, in 2020.
↩︎ The Guardian 1d
A set of revolving bookcases turn a Paris office into an art gallery.
↩︎ Studio Florian Brillet 1d