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The 2018 Rooster Summer Reading Challenge: Week 11

We’re in the home stretch of the 2018 Rooster Summer Reading Challenge, as we begin our final book of the season: The Friend by Sigrid Nunez. We’re again joined by our August judge, Emma Straub, in conversation with Nozlee Samadzadeh.

by The Tournament of Books Staff

To hit its recruiting targets, the US military would need to lower its conviction, education, and health standards.

↩︎ The American Conservative 3m

This intricate, exhaustive diagram depicting the history of alternative music is worth staring at for a while.

↩︎ WIRED 5m

In Southwest Australia, the indigenous calendar has six seasons—now it's Djilba, first spring, season of conception.

↩︎ Indigenous Weather Knowledge 26m

Speculative journalism: It's 2190, and black Houstonians are redlined into neighborhoods exposed to rising seas.

↩︎ Motherboard 26m

The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors is a DMT-inspired temple/artwork by a couple who met and dropped acid together in 1975.

↩︎ The Architect's Newspaper 28m

Live in Oakland? Sign up for a sociological study on how people share public space daily.

↩︎ Sidewalk Interactions 40m

Ruling that Pastafarianism isn't a religion, a Dutch court says a follower can't wear a colander in ID photos.

↩︎ The Guardian 41m

Austere, symmetrical images of synchronized swimmers, by photographer Mária Švarbová.

↩︎ Laughing Squid 3h

To move from speaking standard, which is to say white, English to employing black linguistic patterns or slang successfully is a sonic journey for which there are few, if any, shortcuts.

How Sorry to Bother You and BlacKkKlansman are raising the question of what it means to “sound” black.

↩︎ The Atlantic

After funding setbacks, a Colorado school district moves to a four-day schedule, which could save $1 million a year.

↩︎ NPR 3h

To see how Republicans will defend a possible Trump n-word tape, recall wha they did after Access Hollywood.

↩︎ Vox 3h

Since 2001, the Thai government's "gastrodiplomacy" has helped its cuisine surge in the West.

↩︎ Munchies 3h

It is your right as an American to read what you will, to write what you think, and to publish what you believe. The press is neither the enemy of the people nor its ally, but rather its possession.

Today, as throughout American history, press freedom is under attack. It’s yours to save, or not.

↩︎ The Atlantic

Utilizing multiple Wi-Fi antennas, researchers were able to detect dangerous objects inside bags with 99% accuracy.

↩︎ BBC 5h

When seemingly innocuous art and architecture Twitter accounts turn out to be hotbeds of white supremacy.

↩︎ News Statesman 5h

"Abrazos no balazos": López Obrador wants to demilitarize Mexico's approach to drugs.

↩︎ Vox 5h

Where Feynman failed, MIT mathematicians succeed in breaking spaghetti in half: Twist, then bring the ends together.

↩︎ Ars Technica 5h

America has a physician shortage. One solution: let students complete school and see patients earlier.

↩︎ The Washington Post 20h

Just 500 farmers in one Arizona county may decide the fate of the entire Southwest.

One county’s $1 billion farming economy is loath to renounce upstream rights as the Colorado River slows to trickle.

↩︎ Water Deeply

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