A comparison of average tree heights, from a keshitsubo to a sequoia.

A comparison of average tree heights, from a keshitsubo (0.08 meters) to a sequoia (116 meters).

Aug 15, 2019

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"They see it like one bucket." For today's students, file structures don't exist.

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Rather than cooperating through the pandemic in North Africa, the legacy of colonialism caused many to capitalize on shortages.

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Roxane Gay: "Politicians love to invoke the idea of borders in service of a scarcity doctrine."

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Photographic collages of bedding, by Mira Burack.

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"I had to close my laptop and stare at the wall for a few minutes." The surprising benefits of therapy voyeurism.

↩︎ The Atlantic 4h

A short documentary on Aaron Ralph's 2,700-kilometer, meandering bikepacking trip up the United Kingdom.

via The Radavist

A new website, Find Center, contains 500,000 pages of self-care and burnout-avoidance content recommended by experts.

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Recent photos of international border walls, by Rafał Milach.

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How Spotify and Apple Music use pro-rata accounting to pay artists less.

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Researchers are using Lidar aerial mapping at Teotihuacán to discover how the ancient city was built.

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Brazil's "Levante do Metal Nativo" movement sings heavy metal in the Tupi-Guarani language in hopes of saving their native tongue.

↩︎ Open Culture 4h

From early September but as relevant as ever? "Uniqlo is Sally Rooneycore."

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"It's easy to share secrets when you know no one can do what you can do with the information." The secrets of a daring freediver.

↩︎ GQ 1d

A man relates what it's like to climb Mt. Whitney, the highest peak in the lower 48, three years after suffering a spinal cord injury in a jujitsu class that left him paralyzed from the neck down.

Via the Los Angeles Times

Stanley Donwood's apocalyptic paintings, created for Radiohead's 2000 album *Kid-A*, are going up for sale.

↩︎ Dazed 1d

Ross Douthat: Covid blew up the Left and Right's ideological scaffoldings and returned us to a "Puritans-vs-Jacksonians dynamic."

↩︎ The New York Times 1d

I am not some special kind of human who just sits around reading the Iliad for fun. I’m not that different from the students I teach. They get their energy from me, I get my energy from them. That’s how a university works.

From August, Agnes Callard argues that the real college scandal is how we’ve forgotten the joys of intellectual engagement.

↩︎ The Point

Netflix acquires the works of Roald Dahl for adaptation, with a total production budget around $1 billion.

↩︎ Variety 1d

Recent paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Michelle Blade depict scenes from daily life "in a dreamy, ethereal light."

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