A documentary short about an artist who creates dioramas of murder scenes.

We can conclusively prove that the conflict between tennis and pickleball is capable of shaping the evolution of mankind, and certainly influence the results of sports.

A theory finds athletes who’ve associated themselves with pickleball are not doing very well. Is it ”the dinker’s curse?”

↩︎ Club Leftist Tennis

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An interactive guide to "all you need to know" regarding the Year of the Rabbit.

↩︎ The South China Morning Post 3d

Lan Samantha Chang: Celebrating Lunar New Year has meant learning to share my rituals with people for whom the traditions are new.

↩︎ Vogue 3d

“It is no use trying to explain why we say, on the one hand, that pair of shoes is getting old, but on the other hand, the pair were perfectly happy after their honeymoon.”

Praise for an update to perhaps the best book on modern English usage. “For anyone interested in language, it’s catnip.”

↩︎ The Millions

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A website designer creates a website to showcase all of the people who’ve copied his website designs.

↩︎ Copy Dennis 4d

To the extent that there’s been a national spike in shoplifting, it correlates to the growth of online retail.

↩︎ Curbed 4d

The Orient Express claims to be building the world's largest sailing ship, intending to launch it in 2026.

↩︎ Orient Express 1w

“I have a suggestion for you that comes from your own world. It is that I am only a symptom. I am not the disease. By treating me as you would like to, you will not remove the root causes of your anger, which I suspect are insecurity and borrowed shame.”

A reading of John Le Carré’s (mostly business) correspondence finds him struggling against deceit.

↩︎ The New Yorker

1w

The remains of more than 110,000 Native Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Alaska Natives are held by museums and universities.

↩︎ Pro Publica 1w

How to restore water storage by making bricks in a factory powered by methane emissions.

↩︎ The Cleanest Line 1w

Talking to my two better-paid colleagues through my experiment gave me valuable context. Before, the numbers were just numbers; now, they tell entire stories.

A millennial decides to tell everyone how much money she makes.

↩︎ Business Insider

1w

Texas has three times more wind, solar and battery storage under construction than California—just don’t call it green.

↩︎ The Economist 1w

Restaurant workers in the US unwittingly pay—via mandatory safety classes—for lobbying to keep their pay and benefits low.

↩︎ The New York Times 1w

I should have known, therefore, that it was a Wednesday unlike any other—that the world was about to change—when, at the end of the day, I poked into the studio to turn off the lights, and found the synthesizer still wired up.

A new short story from Robin Sloan, complete with music.

↩︎ Brand New Box

2w

Craig Mod is launching another popup newsletter to document a new big walk around Tokyo.

↩︎ Tokio Tōkyō Tokyo 2w

A terrific round-up when critic Ana Gavrilovska lists her favorite jazz albums released last year.

↩︎ Sick Sad Motherslug 2w

If you can write beginnings and ends, you can make a nice living as a writer. If you write middles, you win Pulitzers and Nobel Prizes and stuff. But with beginnings and ends, you're going to do okay.

Author James Patterson, who has no interest in retiring, has 30 books going at any given time.

↩︎ GQ

3w

Ted Gioia on the return of Barnes & Noble. "At first glance, this makes no sense."

↩︎ The Honest Broker 3w

From October, are we in the midst of a "social recession?" Fewer friendships, less sex, delayed adulthood, etc.

↩︎ Novum 3w

Now you might say: but we had real truffles on the plate! Or, we had real pieces of truffles in the cheese. Yes, that is the worst part of the scam. Decorative truffles are here to make a fool of you.

Almost everything with a “truffle” label available in stores or served in restaurants is said to be a fraud.

↩︎ Taste Atlas

3w