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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Everything Now, the Skateboard Edition

To celebrate the release of Everything Now by TMN co-founder Rosecrans Baldwin, we’re partnering with his publisher to give away a skateboard.

by Andrew Womack

TMN needs your support! Find out how you can become a Sustaining Member and help us keep cooking these delicious links.

↩︎ TMN Membership 8h

Looking back at the career of John Saunders Chase, the first Black licensed architect in Texas.

↩︎ Towers 8h

A roundup of resources for Ikea hacking.

↩︎ The Hustle 8h

“It’s not art, it’s not conceptual; it’s just color." Maximalist designer Brock Forsblom tries minimalism.

↩︎ Curbed 8h

The devastated me is different. My brain used to race, making lists and plans, skipping from an article I was researching to whether my kids were in appropriate after-school programs to what vacation we should take in February. Now it does none of that. There are no plans to make.

Life after a brain injury, by Hana Schank.

↩︎ The Atlantic

10h

I procured more than 60 inches worth of Subway tuna sandwiches. I removed and froze the tuna meat, then shipped it across the country to a commercial food testing lab. I spent weeks chatting with tuna experts. I waited, and waited, until the lab results came back.

An investigation into whether there’s actually any tuna in Subway’s tuna fish.

↩︎ The New York Times

11h

A new report finds algorithmic bias in medicine is influencing nearly every aspect of how patients are treated.

↩︎ STAT 11h

Amateur mushroom photographers are helping professional mycologists—and even identifying rare species.

↩︎ NPR 11h

Amid a heatwave, some Texans are suddenly realizing they handed control of their smart thermostats over to grid regulators.

↩︎ VICE 12h

A playlist of Sweden’s entries for the Eurovision Song Contest from 1958 to 2020.

Andrew Womack

There's a lot to discover in here, but Ted Gärdestad's "Satellit," a 1979 ESC entry and worldwide hit that's probably unknown to many Western listeners (including me), is a good place to start.

(And for the completists out there, Sweden's 2021 entry was "Voices" by Tusse.)

13h

E-card revenue nearly doubled during the pandemic.

↩︎ The New York Times 15h

Detailed moments of untold stories, in paintings by ZhiYong Jing.

↩︎ ZhiYong Jing 15h

"Everybody was looking at antibodies, all this stuff that sounds sexy." The immune system's real secret weapon is pus.

↩︎ The Atlantic 4d

Discriminator is an interactive documentary about how facial recognition works.

↩︎ Discriminator 4d

A tour of Manchester's new "Use Hearing Protection" exhibit, which looks back at the early history of Factory Records.

↩︎ Creative Boom 4d

"An unprecedented study has now confirmed that we probably cannot slow the rate at which we get older."

↩︎ The Guardian 4d

A two-year-old startup that already has 12 million users aims to supplant Facebook Groups. (Now do Instagram.)

↩︎ The Verge 4d

Fourteen million tons of Styrofoam are produced every year; chunks of it break down into particles that enter other objects, including animals. Although Styrofoam is everywhere, one can never point to all the Styrofoam in the world and say, “There it is.”

How the pandemic is an example of a hyperobject—an incomprehensible thing so large that it subsumes us.

↩︎ The New Yorker

Drone footage of Great White Sharks off the coast of California.

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