The Morning News

"Facebook has introduced a new service that will block Facebook for $20 a month."

↩︎ ClickHole 3h

Photographs of balloons on the verge of popping.

↩︎ Behance 22h

"Retail arbitrage" is the oddly lucrative practice of buying goods from box stores and then reselling them on Amazon.

↩︎ Mel Magazine 22h

A record 1,500 individual private flights are expected to fly in and out of the Davos climate talks.

↩︎ The Guardian 22h

Major thanks to everyone who's donated to TMN or joined us as a Sustaining Member. The lights are on thanks to you!

↩︎ TMN Membership 23h

Picturing the marginalized lives of Hong Kong’s queer community, by photographer Ka-Man Tse.

↩︎ It's Nice That 1d

Pioneers of human-android romance now have a name, “digisexuals,” which may constitute a new sexual identity.

↩︎ The New York Times 1d

Official photos of the president are retouched occasionally for social media to make his face thinner, his fingers longer.

↩︎ Gizmodo 1d

Experiments in printing cardiac tissue will start this year on the International Space Station.

↩︎ BBC News 1d

Japan's Prime Minister wants 40% of payments to be cashless by 2025. A big experiment in blockchain is about to begin.

↩︎ MIT Technology Review 1d

NASA's Insight lander continues in "a long tradition" of robotic spacecraft on Mars taking selfies.

↩︎ NASA 1d

Photographs from the 2019 Dakar Rally, a 10-day, 3,000-mile race held this year in Peru.

↩︎ The Atlantic 1d

Is this the world's longest uninterrupted walk? How to get from Cape Town, South Africa to Magadan, Russia (13,910 miles).

↩︎ Brilliant Maps 1d

The phrase "my partner" is eight times more popular today than it was 15 years ago.

↩︎ The Lily 1d

I know few women who haven’t suffered from one form or another of chronic illness and pain, mental illness, painful periods or sex, body dysmorphia, or infertility.

“Women’s bodies so often feel unknown even to those who inhabit them.” An appreciation for the new podcast Bodies.

↩︎ The New York Review of Books

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Between the rise of fast fashion and the "Marie Kondo Effect," thrift stores are being overwhelmed by donations.

↩︎ CityLab 1d

"That's what scares me. I hope it scares everyone else." A new threat facing football: an evaporating insurance market.

↩︎ ESPN 1d

How do receivers make such jaw-dropping catches? By wearing gloves that are 20 percent stickier than the human hand.

According to Sanat Kumar, a professor of chemical engineering at Columbia University and a specialist in polymers, the sticky property exhibited in a viscoelastic medium arises because the material acts as both a solid and a liquid. “It is macroscopically a solid,” Kumar explained of the silicone. “But at shorter, microscopic lengths, it is liquidlike.”

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A roundtable of advice columnists talks about which questions linger after they've been answered.

↩︎ Buzzfeed 1d

The problem isn’t that Harris was an especially bad prosecutor. She made positive contributions as well—encouraging education and reentry programs for ex-offenders, for instance. The problem, more precisely, is that she was ever a prosecutor at all.

A tempered examination of Kamala Harris’s background, and whether Dems really need to be “tough on crime” to win.

↩︎ The Intercept

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