Like a tight spiral chucked into a large puddle of honey.

The US Army concludes that Iran was the only winner of our eight-year war in Iraq. 1/18

Official photos of the president are retouched occasionally for social media to make his face thinner, his fingers longer. 2/18

See also: Photographs of balloons on the verge of popping. 3/18

A record 1,500 individual private flights are expected to fly unironically in and out of the Davos climate talks. 4/18

"Retail arbitrage" is the oddly lucrative practice of buying goods from box stores and then reselling them on Amazon. 5/18

Between the rise of fast fashion and the "Marie Kondo Effect," thrift stores are being overwhelmed by donations. 6/18

The phrase "my partner" is eight times more popular today than it was 15 years ago. 7/18

“Women’s bodies so often feel unknown even to those who inhabit them.” An appreciation for the new podcast Bodies. 8/18

Picturing the marginalized lives of Hong Kong’s queer community, by photographer Ka-Man Tse. 9/18

Pioneers of human-android romance now have a name, “digisexuals,” which may constitute a new sexual identity. 10/18

Experiments in printing cardiac tissue will start this year on the International Space Station. 11/18

Prime Minister Shinzō Abe wants 40% of Japan's payments to be cashless by 2025. A big experiment in blockchain is about to begin. 12/18

NASA's Insight lander continues in "a long tradition" of robotic spacecraft on Mars taking selfies. 13/18

Photographs from the 2019 Dakar Rally, a 10-day, 3,000-mile race held this year in Peru. 14/18

Is this the world's longest uninterrupted walk? How to get from Cape Town, South Africa to Magadan, Russia (13,910 miles). 15/18

A new threat facing football: an evaporating insurance market. 16/18

How do receivers make jaw-dropping catches? By wearing gloves that are 20 percent stickier than the human hand. 17/18

Advice columnists talk about which questions linger long after they've been answered. 18/18

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