Austere, symmetrical images of synchronized swimmers

Most of the Ice Bucket Challenge money went to ALS research—many charities, though, can't track such large, unexpected windfalls.

↩︎ Vox 9h

The blood vessels that deliver food and oxygen—and chemotherapy drugs—to a tumor tend to be highly abnormal. Instead of the usual large, straight, simply branched vessels, [they're] often unevenly distributed, misshapen and tangled.

How our bodies coddle cancer.

↩︎ Knowable Magazine

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Last week, under cover of protecting citizens, Kazakhstan began intercepting all HTTPS internet traffic within its borders.

↩︎ ZDNet 9h

Drawing connections in Italy between a boom in trashy TV, a decline in cognitive skills, and the rise of populism.

↩︎ The Washington Post 10h

On a fictional platform, an argument that social media created its own problems—and large audiences should be earned, not free.

↩︎ Robin Sloan 10h

Serene outdoor scenes by the illustrator Moon.

↩︎ This Isn't Happiness 10h

How Allen Ginsberg ended up as Bob Dylan's roadie, and other scenes from Scorsese's return to the 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue.

↩︎ The Millions 10h

When people with Type 1 diabetes are forced off their parents' insurance, high insulin prices could equal a death sentence.

↩︎ BuzzFeed News 10h

A leaked Live Nation phone call sheds light on how major tours work with scalpers to circumvent selling tickets at face value.

↩︎ Billboard 10h

“I’m worried that some people are going to say, because of this fear, any policy is justifiable. The climate of fear that is being created needs to help generate the conversation, not end the conversation.”

How Steve Bannon has helped revive Washington’s Cold War mentality.

↩︎ The New York Times

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Remembering McCain for shutting down a racist supporter at a rally ignores the racism his 2018 campaign regularly engaged in.

↩︎ Model Metamodern Generalist 10h

In the Dutch scouting tradition of "dropping," preteens are left in a forest to find their way back to base.

↩︎ The New York Times 10h

Smartphones, neckties, television, public transit, coal-fired power: Technology historians predict what will be obsolete by 2070.

↩︎ Paleofuture 11h

A Brit-oriented list of 50 people whose thoughts, research, and writing are shaping the world.

↩︎ Prospect 3d

Being a protohipster snob in 2001, before the advent of any support industry, seemed like a full-time job. On the other hand, the emergence of this industry marked the end of hipster as a subculture.

Say what you want about the aesthetics of the mid-2000s, but even superficial movements still matter.

↩︎ The Hedgehog Review

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A different spin on the moon landing: it wasn't a triumph of science or technology, but sublime aesthetics.

↩︎ The Week 3d

The two earthquakes that rocked the Mojave Desert this month were part of a swarm of 16,000.

↩︎ The New York Times 3d

German soldiers calmly strolled in our streets. They filmed everything. Laughed. Before the war we had a favorite game—we made drawings of Germans. We drew them with big teeth. Fangs. And now they’re walking around… Young, handsome… With handsome grenades tucked into the tops of their sturdy boots.

A new book collects the memories of Soviet children who survived World War II.

↩︎ The Paris Review

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"Some men and some women can’t just be friends. But spouses better be friends already." Remembering When Harry Met Sally.

↩︎ Vanity Fair 3d

From a meeting with persecuted Rohingya Muslims, we learn that Trump doesn't know where Myanmar is.

↩︎ Business Insider 3d