The Morning News

The Rooster crows! It's finals week in the 2019 Tournament of Books, presented by Field Notes.

Warner Music Group is partnering with an algorithm to produce albums of music created to induce moods, such as rest or relaxation.

↩︎ Pitchfork 3h

A timeline of Nixon's presidential approval ratings composed to match the musical themes in the original "The Legend of Zelda."

↩︎ TwoTone 3h

Archaeologists have discovered a sunken ship in the Nile matching a description provided by Herodotus in the fifth century BC.

↩︎ Atlas Obscura 3h

A synthetic alcohol alternative is being developed that delivers tipsiness—but not drunkenness—without the physical damage.

↩︎ The Guardian 3h

Some EU Parliament Members say they accidentally voted for the destructive copyright law that just passed.

↩︎ Boing Boing 3h

Compared to other counties, those that hosted Trump campaign rallies in 2016 had a 226% increase in reported hate crimes.

↩︎ The Washington Post 3h

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↩︎ TMN Membership 3h

White paper: Lynchings in America were used as voter suppression—and notably decreased when Jim Crow was instituted.

↩︎ Cambridge University Press 4h

On "sober curiosity"—a wellness approach to alcohol consumption, less about recovery and more about habit recognition.

↩︎ Vox 4h

Since 2015, John Donohue has been sketching the restaurants of New York City, and hopes one day to draw them all.

↩︎ The New York Times 4h

There are now no more wild caribou in the contiguous US, as the sole remaining female has been brought into captivity.

↩︎ The Washington Post 4h

A subreddit moderator explains how scammers use cute animal photos and multiple accounts to plant propaganda (and worse).

↩︎ WIRED 4h

While taking separate honeymoons may seem extreme, highly individuated couples may view their independence and separate experiences as a strength of their relationship.

Now trending: separate honeymoons, otherwise known as “solomoons” or “unimoons.”

↩︎ The New York Times

1d

A graveyard for apps, services, and hardware killed by Google.

↩︎ Killed by Google 1d

It also makes clear that the Mueller report creates an extensive record on the obstruction question. And that may well be the point.

A legal guide to reading the letter sent by Bill Barr to congressional leaders on Sunday.

↩︎ Lawfare

1d

Biggest loser of the Mueller revelations? Joe Biden. Biggest winners, besides Trump? Pete Buttigieg, Kamala Harris, Beto O’Rourke.

↩︎ Marginal Revolution 1d

↩︎ TMN Newsletters 1d

"Grindr came along offering a much more direct route to sex with no real barriers. Why would people want to go to a club, pay a door entry fee, pay for drinks, when there might not even be anyone there they like?"

After 10 years of countless hook-ups, marriages, bullying, and violent crimes, Grindr struggles to still be a desirable platform.

↩︎ BBC News

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The correction fluid market—Wite-Out, Tipp-Ex, Liquid Paper—remains remarkably resilient, but no one really knows why.

↩︎ The Atlantic 1d