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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Photographs by Mike Goldwater of the London Underground in the 1970s.

↩︎ Flashbak 6h

The preservation of his signature from 1721 to 1758 documents a marked deterioration in his eyesight and failing health during the final decade of his life.

To know George Frideric Handel better, a musicologist pored through his bank records.

↩︎ Bank Underground

Coming soon, alongside Apple's credit card and Facebook's cryptocurrency: a Google checking account.

↩︎ Marginal Revolution 7h

Well, that escalated quickly. Data on the rise of "OK boomer"

↩︎ Towards Data Science 7h

Quantum teleportation isn't about teleporting complex objects, like humans—it's about teleporting elementary quantum systems.

↩︎ Quantum Country 7h

"The maps in the collection aren’t necessarily meant to be useful." Interview with the founder of the Hand Drawn Map Association.

↩︎ TMN 7h

A lengthy explanation of how drugs are bought in the UK, from dark web shops like Dream Market to "county lines networks."

↩︎ The London Review of Books 7h

Rod Stewart shows *Railway Modeller* magazine the massive model of a US city that he's built over 23 years.

↩︎ BBC News 7h

Ignore the outdoor purists: Using technology during a hike doesn't automatically diminish your experience or theirs.

↩︎ Outside Magazine 8h

The 2018 VIDA Count—measuring literary publications' gender diversity—is out. The *New York Review of Books* has work to do.

↩︎ VIDA 21h

Journalists are using an anonymous Google Doc to share the details of their (by and large, low) salaries.

↩︎ Columbia Journalism Review 21h

A visit to the outdoor "body farms" where decomposing corpses help train researchers and law enforcement in forensics.

↩︎ Undark 21h

US maps of light pollution adjusted to show where outsized amounts of light exist per person.

Adjusting NOAA nighttime lights for population reveals areas that create an outsized amount of light per person living there. pic.twitter.com/k91cGyWvLd
— Tim Wallace (@wallacetim) November 10, 2019

21h

An art installation depicts a single discarded cigarette butt's environmental effects per minute.

21h

The Supreme Court rules a survivor and relatives of Sandy Hook victims can sue the manufacturer of the weapon used in the murders.

↩︎ POLITICO 21h

According to the FBI, violent hate crimes have reached a 16-year high. Advocacy groups say the actual number is even higher.

↩︎ BuzzFeed News 21h

Night after night, an audience followed twists and watched political celebrities and antiheroes be born... They showered PBS with donations, cards and letters. Wrote one viewer, “I arrive red-eyed and sleepy to work now and don’t care.”

Remembering the 15 weeks of public TV coverage of the Watergate Senate hearings from 1973.

↩︎ The New York Times

21h

“This is an evil I haven’t faced before.” Doctors provide disturbing descriptions of the lungs of vaping illness patients.

↩︎ VICE 22h

Pneumonic plague, which is more contagious than bubonic plague, has been diagnosed in two Beijing patients.

↩︎ The Guardian 22h

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