File under the curiously entertaining: A brief history of the laundry chute. / The Atlantic Officials say the terrorist group has crossed a threshold with its use of unmanned aircraft, using them to drop bombs on Iraqi troops. / The Washington Post “To use the Forex terminology, Trump is a cyclical correction
Iceland has a pizza problem. / The New York Times Artist Sonja Hincrichsen makes massive “snow drawings” by enlisting dozens of people to walk on prescribed or random paths in snowshoes. / Sonja Hincrichsen Japanese director Seijun Suzuku just died at 93. / The Hollywood Reporter Only a quarter of California remains under
As liberal as we are, we do like reading things that don’t necessarily carry water for the White House, but shade in some blank spots. 1. “How disorderly is Sweden really?”, Marginal Revolution / Marginal Revolution 2. Bill Maher takes credit (not convincingly) for Milo Yiannopoulos’s downfall, New York
Walt Whitman’s Life and Adventures of Jack Engle, an early, unpublished novel that’s been “lost” for 165 years, is available online and in book form. / ir.uiowa.edu, uipress.uiowa.edu An interesting Q&A with photographer John Feely, who traveled through Mongolia in 2014 and came
“Alabama was one of the wealthiest states in the United States at the time of the Civil War, and so was Mississippi, in part because they’re only counting white people.” When the slave tax was, along with slavery, abolished, it permanently warped Alabama’s finances. / The Montgomery Advertiser After
You’ll have heard the weather in Southern California is a little wet, even deadly. / CNN A favorite new trend: “Tiny Trumps.” / Reddit Maybe not a big surprise, but it looks like rock climbing competitions have the most inarticulate commentators. / YouTube
Neither snow nor storm can keep a dedicated golfer away. But politics can. / The New Yorker Outdoorsy folk aren’t pleased to learn that their fleece sweaters are damaging the seas. / The Guardian “Harward called the offer, ‘a shit sandwich.’” Ret. Vice Admiral Bob Harward turned down an offer to
Rather than watch the news on Inauguration Day, Kara Walker started painting “The Crossing,” an enormous new take on Emanuel Leutze’s 1851 “Washington Crossing the Delaware.” / The New Yorker, Wikipedia For the Front National’s Marine Le Pen to become president in France, with its directly elected two-round
American Girl Doll, the company that sells expensive dolls with biographies—originally historical, escaping slavery or surviving the Great Depression, they now tend to be more contemporary, doing things like going to art school—has just introduced a boy doll for the first time. / The New York Times, Mic “The
“What is the make and model of the car you were driving when you realized you don’t actually like to share with anyone?” In case you haven’t seen it yet: security questions for single, childless people. / McSweeney’s None very long, none overwritten, none without an occasional surprise.
