What's another word for "poecilonym?"
A fire consumed the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, destroying two thirds of its roof and bringing down its spire in what investigators believe is an accident. 1/23
After a nine-hour operation that involved nearly 400 firefighters, the Paris fire department announced this morning that "the entire fire is out." 2/23
Photos of the damage inside and outside the cathedral. 3/23
An art historian recently undertook a massive 3D laser scanning project at Notre Dame, where he collected over one billion data points. 4/23
Gothic cathedrals were built to withstand these kinds of disasters, "so that if the roof burns off, it's hard for [the fire] to spread to the rest of the building." 5/23
YouTube's algorithm interpreted video of the Notre Dame fire as Sept. 11 footage, and placed a descriptive link of the World Trade Center attacks under a livestream of the cathedral fire. 6/23
A collection of the hoaxes that sprouted around the Notre Dame fire. 7/23
In the early 19th century, Notre Dame was in half-ruins, when Victor Hugo's novel helped inspire a revitalization. 8/23
The 2019 Pulitzer Prize winners have been announced. 9/23
Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang pledges to make stump speeches via hologram. 10/23
A profile of Lavish Printing, a T-shirt shop that memorializes people killed by gun violence in South Florida. 11/23
"Someone simply driving down a street or sitting in a park one day with their phone out is now within the official dataprint of an investigation." The revelations around Google's Sensorvault, a massive database of device location records, raise questions from both a political and narrative point of view. 12/23
A new science, "sociogenomics," probes connections between your DNA and your socioeconomic circumstances. 13/23
Empathy has evolved lately into "selective empathy"—and much for the worse. We'd do better to pursue "selfish empathy" instead. 14/23
"I practiced over and over again, in every environment on offer, for audiences of all available attitudes and sizes." A new way to cure glossophobia (the fear of public speaking): virtual reality training. 15/23
Your word of the week: "poecilonym," a rare synonym for the word "synonym." 16/23
As boomers age and the US approaches a historic spike in deaths, traditional funerals are becoming more personal, less morbid. 17/23
"I was rooting for Tiger yesterday, but to be more accurate: I was selfishly rooting to relive my own past." Why Tiger Woods's win at the Masters moved so many. 18/23
Video: The Stratolaunch, the world's largest airplane, flew over the Mojave desert in California this weekend. Its wingspan is wider than a football field. 19/23
A climbing account from the first Afghan woman to summit 24,580-foot Mount Noshaq, her country's highest mountain. 20/23
A "pollenpocalypse" overtook North Carolina recently, with massive clouds of pollen tinting the sky yellow. 21/23
"All the farmers markets and patio cocktails and river views in the world couldn't replace me losing my identity." A single parent moves from the city to the suburbs, and back again. 22/23
The best urban areas are grown, not planned—a process called "climax urbanism." 23/23
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