It's Week 3 in the Summer Reading Challenge.

Beach, books, domestic fowl. An American Marriage opens Week Three of the Summer Reading Challenge. With novelist Laura van den Berg.

The Morning News
The United States mapped in the style of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures album cover.
↩︎ Imgur 1h
To stop cheating during high school diploma exams, Algeria installs phone jammers and shuts down its internet.
↩︎ The Guardian 1h
Koko the gorilla, who learned to communicate with humans and inspired the world with her compassion, dies at 46.
↩︎ NPR 1h

Residents of Little Diomede are American. Their relatives on Big Diomede are Russian. For almost half a century, these icy islands have been out of contact—a relic of Cold War division, just miles apart but 21 hours different by time zone. A 25-minute documentary shows their reunion. 

19h
User experience experts argue that voter guides could be much more useful—e.g., with maps of early polling places.
↩︎ WAMU 19h
It sure looks like Border Patrol is using anti-terror passenger databases to track journalists.
↩︎ Huffington Post 20h

"If kids don't eat in peace, you don't eat in peace."

Protesters confront the Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen at a Mexican restaurant in D.C.
↩︎ The Washington Post
20h
OneTaste, the female-orgasm wellness company, appears to be a pyramid scheme of culty sexual servitude.
↩︎ Bloomberg Businessweek 1d
New avocados in Midwest Costco stores have an invisible, plant-based film that doubles shelf-life.
↩︎ The Washington Post 1d

The Rooster

The 2018 Rooster Summer Reading Challenge: Week Three

We start our second book of the summer, An American Marriage by Tayari Jones, in conversation with novelists Laura van den Berg and Rosecrans Baldwin.

by The Tournament of Books Staff
Burger King apologizes for offering cash and a lifetime of free Whoppers to women impregnated by World Cup players.
↩︎ Deadspin 1d
German researchers simulated the entire World Cup 100,000 times. Guess who's the likely winner. (Germany.)
↩︎ MIT Technology Review 1d

We seem to have stumbled into the worst model of parenting imaginable—always present physically, thereby blocking children’s autonomy, yet only fitfully present emotionally.

Parents and children are both suffering from adults always staring at their screens.
↩︎ The Atlantic
1d
How many people do you need to push a belief from the fringe into the mainstream? Twenty-five percent of society.
↩︎ Futurism 1d
In Germany, less than half of internet users also use social media. In Jordan, it's 94%.
↩︎ Pew Research Center 1d
Beautiful, close-up photos of Alaska's frozen swamps and ponds, by Ryota Kajita.
↩︎ This Is Colossal 1d
Country by country, when people around the world retire.
↩︎ Reddit 1d
The US housing market is strong, but supply is so limited that many first-time buyers can't afford to break in.
↩︎ Curbed 1d
Global warming is on the rise, and so is US homelessness—which could mean more heat-related deaths and illnesses.
↩︎ Slate 1d
In the late 19th century, a biologist experimented with underwater photos, taking some of the first clear images.
↩︎ Atlas Obscura 1d