Sure you're busier.

For yet another day, protesters practically shut down Hong Kong’s airport. Hong Kong’s chief executive refuses to offer a political solution to the crisis. 1/18

“What we have is racist harmony.” Singapore’s government likes to think it's unprejudiced. Furor over a "brownface" ad proves not. 2/18

Facing “strong headwinds,” Singapore cuts its expected growth for the year to between 0% and 1%. 3/18

A few notes on the history of slavery in Venice, Italy. 4/18

On Saturday, a white nationalist in Norway, who said he felt “chosen” by the Christchurch killer, was prevented from killing people at a mosque. 5/18

New Zealand’s gun buyback scheme following Christchurch has collected 10,000 weapons. 6/18

Texas tends to react to shootings by loosening gun controls. New laws will allow guns to be carried in churches. 7/18

To prove that agriculture is safe in some parts of Chernobyl, scientists distilled a vodka. 8/18

The pet supplement industry in 2018 had an estimated value of about $636 million, driven by "wellness-curious" millennials. 9/18

Records released in the Roundup court case show how stressed Monsanto was about Neil Young's album The Monsanto Years. 10/18

How an Amish reality show went from documenting teenagers to facilitating the worst patterns of reality TV exploitation. 11/18

Almost as many people went to the Harlem Cultural Festival as Woodstock. Despite Stevie Wonder and more, it's nearly forgotten. 12/18

"The dream of getting there is—getting there." Cosmologists make their case for different expansion rates of the universe. 13/18

There are more twins today than at any other time in history. They're especially visible on social media as "twinfluencers." 14/18

The owners of Wordpress are purchasing Tumblr for less than $3 million. Yahoo originally bought it for more than $1 billion. 15/18

In the synchrony-versus-asynchrony workplace debate, meetings are winning out when it comes to making offices more efficient. 16/18

A study of "time-use diaries" finds we're no busier than our predecessors, but being busy is now "a means of status enhancement." 17/18

A study of jokes told under Stalin’s regime as a way of “sharing hardship, cultivating trust, and ultimately acquiescing to life.” 18/18

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