The Morning News

Your weekly white paper: The “most instagrammable bird” is the frogmouth, formerly “the world’s most unfortunate-looking."

↩︎ i-Perception 8h

In Hawaii, a shortage of vehicles to rent means tourists are driving U-Hauls. Last month, the cheapest car went for $722 a day.

↩︎ Hawaii News Now 8h

Breaking down the "copyright nightmare" of an NFT being sold by Emily Ratajkowski—that's also trolling "art troll" Richard Prince.

↩︎ The Verge 8h

In ancient Rome, the justice was based on personal responsibility, though Tiberius "was basically a wannabe Fox Mulder."

↩︎ Atlas Obscura 8h

"How I draw is how I draw." An interview about process with illustrator Amy Moss.

↩︎ It's Nice That 9h

In 1930 the Indiana Bell building was rotated 90 degrees, and supposedly no one inside felt it move.

Over a month, the 22-million-pound structure was moved 15 inch/hr, all while 600 employees still worked there. There was no interruption to gas, heat, electricity, water, sewage, or the telephone service they provided.

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The pandemic did not create these conditions. It simply made them even more impossible to ignore—and created scenarios in which some workers (not all, but some!) have been empowered, perhaps for the first time in their working lives, to opt out.

You’ve heard that restaurants and retail shops are struggling to fill jobs—perhaps because the economic model is broken.

↩︎ Culture Study

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A new way to catch novel coronaviruses: focus on people who are constantly in contact with animals.

↩︎ NPR 9h

A collection of astronauts' photos of the Earth, digitally restored.

↩︎ Toby Ord 21h

Photos of the desolation left by a coal mine in Poland, by Michal Łuczak.

↩︎ Booooooom 21h

The numbers are in on redistricting, and California and New York are among the states that lost a seat—as Texas picks up two.

↩︎ POLITICO 21h

An interactive map of the world's Indigenous lands.

↩︎ Native Land 21h

America's Covid deaths are "on track to surpass the toll of the 1918 pandemic, which killed an estimated 675,000."

↩︎ The New York Times 1d

On Saturday, hundreds of people named Josh gathered in Lincoln, Neb., to fight with pool noodles over the "right" to the name.

↩︎ NPR 1d

At this point, we figured that when someone paid a company like RepZe to get a post removed, RepZe then paid the complaint site to delete it. But our understanding turned out to be incomplete at best.

A deep dive into the symbiotic relationship between slander sites and reputation management companies.

↩︎ The New York Times

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"Republican elected officials...have been trying to make it easier for certain people to run over certain other people."

↩︎ The New Republic 1d

A real-time map of the space junk that's floating around Earth.

↩︎ AstriaGraph 1d

Hollywood is America's least diverse business sector—a systemic bias that costs the industry at least $10 billion a year.

↩︎ The New York Times 1d

Serene paintings of islands far removed from city life, by Stephen Wong Chun Hei.

↩︎ This Isn't Happiness 1d

Yahoo's deletion habit is why it's now most known for "the sheer amount of destruction they’ve done to the historical record."

↩︎ The Atlantic 1d