It’s called a library.
Global markets continue to slide, with the 30-year US government bond yield dropping to its lowest level on record. 1/17
People who buy expensive bunkers—a booming business currently—feel that global forces have left society increasingly vulnerable. 2/17
A large survey of voting machine security finds a significant number of voters may not get a paper record of their vote in 2020. 3/17
You can buy all sorts of things for cheap from the government, including "Painting of Old Tblisi in a brown wooden frame." 4/17
Amazon says its controversial facial-recognition software—used by law enforcement agencies—can now identify fear. 5/17
“This place was violent, unsafe, and isolated; now it's bustling, orderly. Why did it take a prison gang to bring about change?” A tweet tour of a gang-controlled neighborhood in Brazil. 6/17
The city of Jinja in Uganda is a hub of volunteerism. Which helps explain how an American with no medical training ran a center for malnourished kids, 105 of whom died. 7/17
It’s possible that Ebola, long thought unsolvable, can now be cured with drug treatment. 8/17
A journalist shares lessons learned after spending 18 months reporting on a single homeless encampment in Los Angeles. 9/17
Remembering the August blackout in 2003 that killed electricity for 50 million across the Northeast (and Southeast Canada). 10/17
The Advertising Standards Authority bans its first two TV ads for “perpetuating harmful gender stereotypes.” 11/17
“It’s natural the Boys should whoop it up for / so huge a phallic triumph.” W.H. Auden did not think much of the moon landing. 12/17
François Caradec's Dictionary of Gestures, now available in English, is a compendium of more than 850 human movements. 13/17
Reading the news can feel excruciating and intolerable at the moment. Thankfully, there's tomato season. 14/17
This week at Camp ToB, we wrap up our discussion of the first book in our August matchup, Lauren Wilkinson’s American Spy. 15/17
A poem for your hurricane season: “eye wall replacement cycle” by Shani Mootoo. 16/17
In a "silent book club," readers gather to read in silence together for an hour, with no pressure to chat. 17/17
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