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

Sixteen years have led to this: it's finals week in the Super Rooster, presented by Bookshop! Which book will reign supreme?

"We can’t distinguish people’s politics from glances into their fridges much more reliably than if we just flipped a coin."

↩︎ The New York Times 8h

Six years later, a man finally frees himself of that free/forced U2 album.

↩︎ Vulture 9h

Israeli artist Michal Levy, who experiences chromaesthesia, "in which sounds and music provoke visuals," does a rendering of John Coltrane's "Giant Steps."

Via Open Culture

9h

Skiing has long served as an escape for white people from multicultural politics and accusations of privilege, and that is precisely why we can’t leave race out of it.

The headline says it all: “No, Skiing Isn’t a Welcome Place for People of Color—Not Yet.”

↩︎ Powder

9h

Medical professionals are slowly realizing that esports competitors are at risk from serious health issues.

↩︎ WIRED 9h

Daisugi is a Japanese method for managing forests that fells just the upper portions, leaving the base and root structure intact.

↩︎ Colossal 9h

Heather McTeer Toney: It’s time for a cultural moment around the word “environmentalist.”

↩︎ Heated 9h

Historically in California, somewhere between 4.4 million and 12 million acres used to burn every year.

↩︎ NPR 9h

"It is fun to keep being baffled by what happens." Foreign correspondents describe what it's like covering American politics.

9h

"Four years ago, nobody knew how Trump would govern." Sixteen reasons why 2020 differs is nothing like 2016.

↩︎ POLITICO Magazine 9h

↩︎ TMN Newsletters 9h

As the United States hurtles toward the presidential election, the country seems ready to forget that its own homegrown fascism predated President Donald Trump—and to ignore that it will last after he leaves office.

White supremacist groups led by zoomers (born in the late ‘90s or early ‘00s) envision Trump as the beginning, not the end.

↩︎ BuzzFeed News

10h

"Notice that a lot of them are in Japan." Data from the oldest companies in the world.

↩︎ The Long Now 1d

A new book collects firsthand accounts of supernatural encounters as originally reported on TripAdvisor.

↩︎ It's Nice That 1d

The FBI continues to delay a report stating white-supremacist violence to be the greatest terror threat facing the nation.

↩︎ The Daily Beast 1d

"This is not something that Covid has signed up to and said, yes I'll stop infecting people on Christmas Day and you can all just go about your business."

A Scottish bishop asks for a Christmas truce—a one-day break from Covid restrictions—as if the virus was a German army.

↩︎ BBC News

1d

Peer-reviewed research finds that Facebook usage is five times more polarizing for conservatives than for liberals.

↩︎ The Washington Post 1d

“I’ve been involved in a certain amount of soul-searching.” How the press covered the last four years of Trump.

↩︎ Columbia Journalism Review 1d

Photographs of a recent October weekend in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.

↩︎ The Cut 1d