March 17, 2017

On Irene Kuo, the New York chef and writer who introduced America to cooking Chinese food yet died nearly unknown. / Food52

And people say the Rooster is rough: Norman Podhoretz, king of New York intelligentsia, continues to pick fights. / New York Times

“There are more sets of bananas than there are bananas.” An accessible intro to the work of mathematician Georg Cantor, “who showed that some infinities are bigger than others.” / Aeon

Jeff Sessions’s handpicked new violent crimes chief: “When you put criminals in jail, crime goes down.” / The Trace

Lovely patterns pay tribute to African star players in the latest volume of Football Editions. / It’s Nice That

“The shift in consumption habits was apparently most dramatic in Denver, where people bought 6% less beer post-legalization.” If marijuana was legal, more than a quarter of beer drinkers say they’d switch. / Quartz

Two big books go head to head in Friday’s match: The Nix meets We Love You Charlie Freeman. / The Tournament of Books

More airports roll out facial-recognition technology—but is it to improve travelers’ experience, or cut jobs? / The Economist

How a Bach Stradivarius trumpet is made is interesting to watch. / YouTube

“There are libraries filled with all the bad things that actually did happen. We don’t need memes and these dodgy articles full of lies.” No, for the last time: the Irish were not slaves. / The New York Times

Because sometimes it’s nice to look at lovely things: Illustrations by McBess. / McBess

“The next generations will have no living memory of our time. We must go outside and pay attention, then weave this experience into the future, telling our children, students and friends what we saw, heard and smelled in this season formerly known as spring.” A lyrical scientific tribute to the season formerly known as springtime. / New York Times