Jonesing for forever.

The annual Hajj pilgrimage begins today. In 2018, 2.37 million Muslims made the journey to Mecca. 1/15

Russians plan protests tomorrow in Moscow and 40 other cities for another weekend of civil unrest. 2/15

Domino's spent $8.5 million stockpiling ingredients to prepare for a hard Brexit. Many companies have been stockpiling for months. 3/15

Our favorite public database of the week: near-real time tracking of icebergs. 4/15

From January, but still great: A Lyft driver explains how the company applies gaming reinforcements to keep its drivers driving. 5/15

Payola is still common in radio. "I don't think there's any way somebody could have a hit at radio without having to do that." 6/15

JPMorgan Chase joins other big brands, including Citi, American Express, and Microsoft, in using AI to write ad copy. 7/15

When a 16-year-old climate activist decides to sail, rather than fly to a meeting, the media wags talk excitedly. 8/15

Razib Khan doesn’t call himself a public intellectual, which explains why he’s willing to explain the moments in recent history when he changed his mind. 9/15

A terrific Namwali Serpell essay commissioned around Toni Morrison’s 88th birthday explains the thrill of her “difficulty.” 10/15

From a Morrison interview in the Paris Review: “I’ve tried to overcome not having orderly spaces by substituting compulsion for discipline.” 11/15

Raised to be a Christian Scientist, a woman grimly enjoys watching the religion die, knowing how painfully it killed her father. 12/15

Songwriter David Berman of the Silver Jews died on Wednesday at 52. On his passing: "He was funny, and his delivery was so warm, it made it easy to overlook the deep sadness dripping from every word." 13/15

And: "A drawing David Berman sent me entitled 'At the End of the World' after I interviewed him for my fanzine in 1994." 14/15

Watch: The final song at the final Silver Jews show in 2008, "Smith & Jones Forever." 15/15

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