Purple reign
Internet and telecom services in Gaza get cut as a result of Israel's bombardment. / Al Jazeera
Jeremy Bowen: It's time to stop talking about the war spreading elsewhere—it's already happened. / BBC News
Spencer Ackerman: You did it, Joe! You escalated the war you spent the week saying shouldn't escalate. And you have a plan now, right? / Forever Wars
Museum curators and ordinary citizens are trying to preserve Ukraine's experience of Russia's invasion. / Atlas Obscura
A team of physicists finds a new kind of magnetism "playing out within an engineered material only six atoms thick." / Quanta Magazine
A 2023 study finds physician shortages in medically underserved areas in the United States unimproved by increased pay or student loan forgiveness. / Undark
The Federal Highway Administration wants less sign language that uses pop-culture references or humor. / The Wall Street Journal [+]
Why does a cul-de-sac in Greater Los Angeles have an ordinance barring skateboarding? Public safety. / The Los Angeles Times
Related: The great skate show Epicly Later'd is back. / GQ
London-based illustrator Edie Medley draws a comic about what it's like for women to grapple with urinary tract infections. / It's Nice That
British artists like Damien Hirst and Glenn Brown are running their own museums. / Artsy
What is it like to look at flora and fauna through AI-powered binoculars? "Personally, I’d kill to own a pair for the sheer amount of joy I got." / Outside
Fashion's favorite color(s) for 2024 are predicted to be "deep, muddy yurples." / Blackbird Spyplane
See also: An open letter to Jeremy Allen White regarding his recent Calvin Klein ads. / McSweeney's Interent Tendency
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