Any Human Ever randomly picks an average person from some point in human history and tells you about what their life was like. Mine was a woman born in 1547: “Of all the sounds of her life, the loudest were thunder and the church bells.”
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• Grace Ebert
Stumbling upon a battered end table or lost mitten is an opportunity for magic in Woo Jin Joo’s mind.
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• Kate Mothes
Silveira juxtaposes objects and organisms in unlikely scenarios to challenge how we perceive the world around us.
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Mamdani’s “Richard Scarry Socialism” Can Make City Life Simple Again. “It is an astonishing indictment of our times that the cities of our picture books can seem like a radical utopia.”
Longreads
• Carolyn Wells
"A months-old subreddit called r/BoyDinnerDiares has drawn over 4 million users and become a place for men to spill their guts. Why there and why now?"
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The Global Rise of Electoral Dictatorships. Is the U.S. Next? “Electoral dictators — who identify as presidents and prime ministers — hold uncompetitive and unfair elections after aggressively suppressing political opponents.”
Longreads
• Seyward Darby
"Mr. Wonderful wanted to build the world’s largest data center. The neighbors had other ideas."
A short (too short?) video from Little White Lies on designer Saul Bass and his influence on the art of movie title design. They also did videos on Pablo Ferro and Kyle Cooper.
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• Seyward Darby
"The horrific story of Jane Doe and the Cornell Seven has spurred nationwide outrage and revived contentious debates around prevention and education. But one question is still going unasked: Who really pays after a sexual assault?"
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
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Telescope tourist, rocket scientist and STEAM educator Summer Ash gives us the nitty gritty on the V.L.A. - a 22-mile telescope in New Mexico whose formal name is literally “Very Large Array.” We talk about how this observatory works and what cosmic wonders it’s detected.
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“Margaret Hamilton, who led the 100-person team that wrote the onboard software for the Apollo missions, guiding Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to a safe landing on the moon, died Sept. 30 in Cambridge, Mass. She was 90.”
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
"In Southern California’s Otay Mountain Wilderness, the federal surveillance network seems unavoidable. But year after year, migrant deaths persist."
