Off the wall.
Carbon dioxide hit its highest levels in human history this weekend. Also, it was 84 degrees near the Arctic Ocean. 1/22
Thirty-seven years ago, Exxon scientists described all the horrors we’re facing now thanks to rising emissions. 2/22
A retired naval officer just made the deepest dive ever inside a submarine. At the bottom, he found human trash. 3/22
For the first time last year, Chinese consumers bought more Cadillacs than Americans did. Most were assembled in China. 4/22
Many young South Koreans don't date because it's too expensive and distracting from building their careers. 5/22
A high school senior plans to wear a QR code on her graduation cap that sends people to a list of school shooting victims. 6/22
Your weekly white paper: What happened when New York City randomly increased street lighting? Crime fell by 36%. 7/22
Amazon will fund up to $10,000 in costs and provide three months of pay to any employee who starts their own delivery business. 8/22
“Drop a bomb on a residential area? I never in my life heard of that.” Thirty years later, a Philadelphia native tries to make sense of the devastating MOVE bombing. 9/22
Read more stories like this in our editors' longreads picks. 10/22
Pot smuggling arrests at Los Angeles International Airport have surged 166% since marijuana legalization. 11/22
Alabama’s Senate passes a near-total ban on abortion. 12/22
When it comes to abortion and a changing Supreme Court, “we have no idea what will be 'on the wall.'” 13/22
A Texas puzzle: What’s the difference between a farm-to-market road and a ranch-to-market road? A great anomaly. 14/22
Living small at Northern California’s only legal tiny-house community, Delta Bay, a 12-acre resort for homes on wheels. 15/22
Here is our Camp ToB 2019 reading list and schedule. 16/22
As a way to transfer factual knowledge, books aren't very reliable, and lectures are even worse. Can research design new mediums? 17/22
Paul Ford is equally proud and ashamed for being a CEO on the inside of the inner circles of tech. 18/22
Everywhere you go, you project a hologram of data and memory—assuming you didn't leave your Fitbit in the hotel room. 19/22
During the filming of 2001, Kubrick tried to take out insurance in case alien contact derailed box office returns. 20/22
To perceive yourself as isolated means to be rejected over and over, "even when in reality no one is slighting you." 21/22
“When I was first starting out, I had the same agent as Agatha Christie. I was about 19 years old and she was in her nineties. I met her once, and I remember she said, ‘I want to die face-first in my typewriter.’ And I feel that way.” Danielle Steele has written 179 books, works 20 hours a day, doesn’t read, and has nine children. 22/22
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