Links

May 5, 2022

• Student Loans ZEM
• CNN on Sleep
• Giant Snake

Feb 17, 2021

• Shape Rotators Vice
• Panko Greatest
• Renovision DIY YT
• If You Give A Mouse A Cookie Wikipedia
• Change Your Personality Atlantic

June 1, 2021

• Real Ale Brewing
• Influencers

May 25, 2021

• u2 analysis
• Stereogum article
• carvana
• van stuff: vans are better, vans are for grown-ups]

March 30, 2021

• Why You Hate Jazz (Or Hip-Hop, Or Country, Or Classical..): A Theory Of Musical Taste - 03/25/21

A theory of musical taste by genre explained.

• Scientists Finally Identify a Deadly Toxin That’s Been Killing Birds - 03/26/21

Thousands of eagles and other fowl have died from a mysterious condition that attacks their nervous systems. Now, after decades of investigation, we know what toxic combination is to blame.

• Uncommon Time: What Makes Dave Brubeck’s Unorthodox Jazz Stylings So Appealing? - 03/29/21

Brubeck’s music doesn’t swing the way jazz “should,” but it combines novelty and familiarity in a way that stimulates the brain

• As endangered birds lose their songs, they can’t find mates - 03/29/21

Most male birds spend several months in their first year learning and refining the songs they’ll recite for the rest of their lives.

• How I Became A Fake Wellness Influencer - 03/30/21

Journalist Calliste Weitenberg spent six months creating a fake wellness influencer @thatcoastalgirl to investigate sponsored content. So what did it take to succeed?

March 23, 2021

• Late-Stage Pandemic Is Messing With Your Brain - 03/08/21

We have been doing this so long, we’re forgetting how to be normal

• A Tax Code Optimized for White Wealth Leaves Black Americans Behind - 03/10/21

Dorothy Brown has spent her career as a law professor documenting racism in a tax system that’s supposedly colorblind.

• The Magic Molekule - 03/16/21

There has never been a better business (or planetary) climate in which to calm and stoke your anxieties about dirty air.

• In the Mississippi Woods Where the Southern Myth Ends - 03/20/21

While many see the Piney Woods as just the massive pine forest between Gulfport and Jackson, much more happened in this part of Mississippi than the landscape indicates.

February 2nd, 2021

• The Drift “Doctor Do-Little” - 01/30/21

There is no one in American government — or perhaps any government — quite like Dr. Anthony Fauci. His position, with its mixture of informal power and public visibility, scientific authority and beltway influence, is sui generis.

• Teen Vogue “Harvard Class on Policing Canceled After Student Petition, Backlash “ - 01/30/21

Harvard professor worked with police to surveil and gather data on citizens and now is facing backlash.

• NY Daily News “Meet Keith Gill, the man who drove the GameStop Reddit mania and made millions “ - 01/30/21

The man, the myth, the legend. u/DeepFuckingValue who made millions on buying $GME

• Vice “Experts Say Robinhood’s GameStop Fiasco Likely Caused by Lack of Cash”- 01/28/21

Regulatory experts say that Robinhood’s move to stop people from buying specific stocks is highly unusual and concerning.

• NY Times “Even in Poorer Neighborhoods, the Wealthy Are Lining Up for Vaccines “ - 02/02/21