In space, nobody knows you're a dog
More than 50 million people are traveling this weekend, reaching 98% of pre-pandemic Thanksgiving travel. / MarketWatch
A reporter is detained for wearing a rainbow T-shirt to the World Cup. / Fútbol with Grant Wahl
See also: "'It feels,' says one journalist, 'like a country that's being unboxed.'" / Vanity Fair
An AI prediction robot offers guesses on upcoming matches. (Though it got Argentina-Saudi Arabia wrong, like everybody else.) Here's a general preview of the tournament. / Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Howler
An illustrated account of climate change by Elizabeth Kolbert, from A to Z. / The New Yorker
One thing that may derail efforts to decarbonize the economy: when it becomes too hot to work for weeks every year, not just isolated days. / Noema
In four years, the number of students graduating from high schools in the US "will begin a sudden and precipitous decline." / Vox
Universities are partnering with betting companies to reap millions for introducing students to online gambling. / The New York Times
Adam Mastroianni: When people imagine how things could be different, they almost always imagine how things could be better. / Experimental History
Related/unrelated: The Pangeos Terayacht floating city concept. / Uncrate
The MS Voyager wants to become the world's first marine spaceport, launching a carbon-neutral "spaceballoon." / Space Perspective
Two exceptionally bright galaxies have been spotted from the early Universe, "brighter than any should have been at the time." / Inverse
"99.9% of people will never get to experience what you will." A review of NASA's social media guidelines for astronauts. / Vox
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