May 26, 2020
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From Culinary Dud To Stud: How Dutch Plant Breeders Built Our Brussels Sprouts Boom
“Shannan Troncoso, co-owner of Brookland’s Finest Bar & Kitchen in Washington, D.C., has turned her customers into fans of Brussels sprouts. Catie Dull/NPR Foods…”
May 23, 2020
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The Story Behind Every Track on Fetch the Bolt Cutters
“Photo: Courtesy of Fiona Apple Fetch the Bolt Cutters is like nothing Fiona Apple has done before, but the album is still recognizable as something only she…”
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We Live in a Patchwork Pandemic Now
“Joan Wong Editor’s Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers. Find the collection here . T here was supposed to be…”
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Why Do Food Delivery Companies Lose Money?
“Photo: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images Ranjan Roy has a great article on Substack about DoorDash and “pizza arbitrage”: Roy’s friend was first annoyed…”
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In Search of Time Lost and Newly Found
“Critic’s Notebook Roy Lichtenstein’s “Still Life with Clock and Roses,” 1975. Credit… Estate of Roy Lichtenstein Almost as soon as it appeared, Covid-19…”
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Alison Roman, Bon Appétit, and the ‘Global Pantry’ Problem
“A lison Alison Roman is the “ prom queen of the pandemic .” Or, at least, she was. The cookbook author and YouTube star, who rose to fame on the strength of her…”
May 18, 2020
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Stripe’s first negative emissions purchases
“To mitigate the threat of climate change, the majority of climate models agree that the world will need to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere on the…”
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“Photo: Bobby Doherty for New York Magazine This article was featured in One Great Story , New York ’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it…”
May 17, 2020
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Will our digital lives leave a fossil record?
“In the library of Earth’s history, there are missing books, and within books there are missing chapters, written in rock that is now gone. The greatest example…”
May 15, 2020
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The Pandemic Doesn’t Have to Be This Confusing
“Joan Wong O n March 27 , as the U.S. topped 100,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, Donald Trump stood at the lectern of the White House press-briefing room and…”
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How to create the best at-home videoconferencing setup, for every budget – TechCrunch
“Your life probably involves a lot more videoconferencing now than it did a few weeks ago – even if it already did involve a lot. That’s not likely going to…”
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Solar’s Future is Insanely Cheap (2020)
“0 shares This is part 1 of a series where I’ll look at the future costs of clean energy and mobility technologies. This is a refresh of and expansion of my 2015…”
May 14, 2020
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Amid the Coronavirus Crisis, a Regimen for Reëntry
“In places around the world, lockdowns are lifting to various degrees—often prematurely . Experts have identified a few indicators that must be met to begin…”
May 10, 2020
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“But unseen barriers do Devon Price Mar 23, 2018 · 11 min read Illustration: Ashley Becerra I’ ve been a psychology professor since 2012. In the past six years,…”
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Why Nostalgia Is Our New Normal | The Walrus
“N ostalgia has an air of total irreconcilability. There is the feeling the word describes, of course: a fundamentally impossible yearning, a longing to go back…”
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The VR winter — Benedict Evans
“Does that tell us anything? Surely if a raw experience is amazing, the applications will come with a bit more time? Well, perhaps. If you try the Oculus Quest,…”
May 6, 2020
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The Neuroscience of Why You Could Really Use a Hug Right Now
“Alice,* a 31-year-old director from London, has been breaking the coronavirus lockdown rules. “I almost don’t want to tell you this,” she says, lowering her…”
May 4, 2020
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“Grand Relax Antonio Citterio, 2019 Grand Relax is a luxurious reclining lounge chair combining outstanding comfort with compact dimensions and a classic…”
May 3, 2020
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Stewart Brand Is 81—and He Doesn’t Want to Go on a Ventilator
“The legendary thinker and founder of the Whole Earth Catalog raises a public conversation about end-of-life care during the Covid-19 pandemic. On March 20,…”
May 2, 2020
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Naked and Unafraid to Exercise in Virtual Reality
“Get over yourself and try VR workouts already. It’s private, liberating, and doesn’t require gym shorts. I can without bashfulness say that I have logged…”
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The Dad Who Photoshops His Baby Daughter Into Dangerous Situations
“1 / 6 Photograph by Stephen Crowley Social media can lead to many exciting things, but in my stage of life it mostly leads to pictures of children. The lucky…”
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What Happens Next? COVID-19 Futures, Explained With Playable Simulations
“What Happens Next? COVID-19 Futures, Explained With Playable Simulations 🕐 30 min play/read · by Marcel Salathé (epidemiologist) & Nicky Case (art/code) “The…”
May 1, 2020
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Human Fallibility and the Case for Robot Baseball Umpires
“How the ‘gambler’s fallacy’ and anchoring bias influence strike zones. I, for one, will welcome our robot umpire overlords, at least when it comes to calling…”
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Inside the heartwarming world of Hot Wheels collecting
“In 1995, Sheri Abbey was at a swap meet in California when something small caught her eye: a classic model Radio Flyer wagon Hot Wheels car, with a spoiler,…”
April 30, 2020
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What the idea of civilisational ‘collapse’ says about history – Guy D Middleton | Aeon Essays
“There’s a common story of how the Maya civilisation was wiped out: they fell foul of unstoppable climate change. Several periods of extreme drought withered…”
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“In the spring of 1822 an employee in one of the world’s first offices – that of the East India Company in London – sat down to write a letter to a friend. If…”
April 22, 2020
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“The Capitol building in Washington, DC, on April 19. Xinhua News Agency/Getty Images In a viral essay , venture capitalist Marc Andreessen makes a simple…”
April 21, 2020
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It’s Not Too Late to Go on Offense Against the Coronavirus
“For weeks now, we’ve watched the COVID -19 pandemic spread across the United States. During much of that time, it’s seemed like the only thing to do is hunker…”
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Obesity Linked to Severe Coronavirus Disease, Especially for Younger Patients
“Young adults with obesity are more likely to be hospitalized, even if they have no other health problems, studies show. A patient arrived at Elmurst Hospital…”
April 19, 2020
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Basalts Turn Carbon into Stone for Permanent Storage – Eos
“In carbon storage experiments tied to geothermal power plants in Iceland, 90% of injected carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) transformed into minerals in just 2 years.…”