Carlo Rovelli on the nature of "now" and time generally. A little long and tedious sometimes, but still exciting to dip into. As Rovelli writes in his new book, The Order of Time, studying time “is like holding a snowflake in your hands: gradually, as you study it,
Trump and Mexico reach a deal on NAFTA, re-dubbed the US Mexico Trade Agreement, putting pressure on Canada. 1/22 Voters head to the polls in Florida, Arizona, and Oklahoma to pick general election candidates. 2/22 Taiwan, oddly enough, has become a pioneer in digital democracy with a
Michael Nesmith of the Monkees really, really loves vaporwave, a fringe electronic subgenre. For example, regarding "Floral Shoppe" by Macintosh Plus: “I’d never heard anything like it, and I was just smitten. Now I listen to it pretty regularly. It really satisfies me. The first indicator as
Hi, this is Andrew and Rosecrans from The Morning News. We’re trying to get better about doing this, but we just wanted to take a moment to thank our Sustaining Members for their generosity in making the TMN Headlines and the Tournament of Books possible. And if you’re
Across North America, prisoners are striking over treatment and forced labor that amounts to modern slavery. 1/22 Since 2010, at least 404 people with mental illness have died in US jails—which are now "default treatment centers." 2/22 The US Dept. of Education is considering exploiting
Hurricane Lane has weakened, but it’s still expected to be hazardous in Hawaii over the next couple of days. 1/18 A week of chaos continues in Australia’s government. It’s nothing new: The past decade has been marked “by a series of leadership coups.” 2/18 President
Trump's tweet about the murder of South African farmers—which are at a 20-year low—and land expropriation is a popular conspiracy theory among white nationalists who want to push the threat of "white genocide." 1/18 The close of trading in New York yesterday
It's the second-to-last week of the 2018 Rooster Summer Reading Challenge, which means two big things: Novelist Emma Straub decides between August's two books and the commentariat votes for the book of the summer.
In a dizzying day of news, Manafort is found guilty, Michael Cohen implicates the President, and the White House says there’s nothing to see here. 1/22 The President, Donald Trump: “If anyone is looking for a good lawyer, I would strongly suggest that you don’t retain the
In case you're at the beach and one of these comes lumbering along, don't worry, it's just a "strandbeest."
