December 3, 2013
- Along with workers and money, the U.S. plains oil rush has meant a boom in cartel, drug, and other criminal activity.
- Corruption watchdog says the world perceives Australia as declining alongside Syria and Libya.
- How Thailand reached its current insanity.
- Texting has rendered the humble period surly and aggressive; fuck texting.
- From the ingredients to the machines to the workers to the transport to you: How a T-shirt is made.
- Male koalas have an extra set of vocal chords that emit a deep, bellowing grunt to attract mates.
- The selfish gene is one of the most successful science metaphors ever invented. Unfortunately, it's wrong.
- What Paul Ford has learned from fatherhood.
- The remains of the Hvítserkur volcano in Iceland resemble a large, grazing Triceratops.
- The last person to talk with Tiffany Sedaris calls her brother's New Yorker essay "grossly inaccurate."
- Quotidian life—people at work, people selling ice cream—in North Korea, Instagrammed.
- Profiles of people's junk drawers and the memories stored inside them.
- To purchase all the items mentioned in "The Twelve Days of Christmas" costs 7.7% more than last year.
- If folk guitarist John Fahey hadn't explored pre-war Americana, music today wouldn't be the same.
- Tumblr of the day: pre-1989 New York.
- Remembering Maria Callas.