The weekend is almost here! Here's another batch of great links for your reading pleasure and continuing life-long education. If you enjoy these roundups and/or want to share some links to articles that you think I'd find interesting, leave a note in the comments section or come find me on Twitter.
Books, reading & writing
- The New Yorker: "Saying Goodbye to a Secret Bookstore" (Brazenhead Books) by Brian Patrick Eha
- Literary Hub: "On the joy of giving a child their first library card" a Q&A with librarian Stephanie Chase
- The Paris Review: "The Borges Memorial Non-Lending Library of Imaginary Books" by Seth Gannon
- The New Yorker: "One Man's Impossible Quest to Read — and Review — the World" by Karan Mahajan
- Atlas Obscura: "Oxyrhynchus, Ancient Egypt's Most Literate Trash Heap" by Romie Stott
Environment and recycling
- The Washington Post: "Our wasted food is a huge environmental problem – and it’s only getting worse" by Chelsea Harvey
- Plaid Zebra: "Water bottle made from algae could save 50 billion plastic bottles a year from our landfills" by Jessica Beuker
- The New York Times: "Three Headaches for the Recycling Industry" (diapers, plastic bags and juice boxes) by Matt Richtel
- Fusion: "Litter bug: The radical repackaging required to go zero waste" by Cole Rosengren
- Safe Bee: "Can Mushroom Packaging Help Save the Planet?" by Muriel Vega
- The New York Times: "Indonesia's Orangutans Suffer as Fires Rage and Businesses Grow" by Joe Cochrane
Walking and exploring
- Tom-Cox.com: "Walking notes: The Black Dogs of Dartmoor & the origins of The Hound Of The Baskervilles" by Tom Cox
- The New York Times: "How Walking in Nature Changes the Brain" by Gretchen Reynolds
"Goats for $500, Alex"
- My Inside Voices: "Goats and other tales of calamity" by Susan Jennings
- Mimi Matthews: "The West End rambles of London's Piccadilly goat"
- Collectors Weekly: "Goat Rituals and Tree-Trunk Gravestones: The Peculiar History of Life Insurance" by Lisa Hix
History
- The Atlantic: "The Role of Highways in American Poverty" by Alana Semuels
- Atlas Obscura: "How Black Pepper Won Europe From a Better Pepper" by Sarah Laskow
- The New Yorker: "Helium Dreams: A new generation of airships is born" by Jeanne Marie Laskas. This article first caught my attention because of this gut-wrenching passage:
"The gas cells of many of the early zeppelins were made from so-called goldbeater’s skin: cow intestines beaten to a pulp and then stretched. It took two hundred and fifty thousand cows to make one airship. During the First World War, Germany and its allies ceased production of sausages so that there would be enough cow guts to make zeppelins from which to bomb England."
- Atlas Obscura: "From Roosevelt to Resolute, The Secrets of All 6 Oval Office Desks" by Eric Grundhauser
- Associated Press: "Crow war chief who walked 'in 2 worlds' dies at 102" by Matthew Brown
- The Guardian: "Revealed: How Associated Press cooperated with the Nazis" by Philip Oltermann
Current events
- Medium: "The Seas Will Save Us: How an Army of Ocean Farmers are Starting an Economic Revolution" by Bren Smith
- Poynter: "How the AP busted an international seafood slavery racket" by Kristen Hare
- The New York Times: "Washington Metro, 40 and Creaking, Stares at a Midlife Crisis" by Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Nicholas Fandos
Culture, social issues & entertainment
- Vice: "Ta-Nehisi Coates on ‘Black Panther’ and Creating a Comic That Reflects the Black Experience" by J.A. Micheline
- Vice Sports: "Four Years a Student-Athlete: The Racial Injustice of Big-time College Sports" by Patrick Hruby
- Atlas Obscura: "Can an Outsider Ever Truly Become Amish?" by Kelsey Osgood
- The New Yorker: "In the Future, We Will Photograph Everything and Look at Nothing" by Om Malik
- The New York Times Magazine: "What I Learned From Kristi Yamaguchi" by Nicole Chung
- The Guardian: "Scale of Hearst plot to discredit Orson Welles and Citizen Kane revealed" by Dalya Alberge
- Blumhouse.com: "The True Story Behind the Legendary 'Lost Ending' of The Shining" by Stephen Johnson
The Joy of Twitter
Finally, here is a sampling of highly recommended Twitter accounts to follow. Many of these veer toward having compelling visuals, which makes them great to follow.
Old London Bridge, around 1600 pic.twitter.com/OU5rHzPQXW
— Culturaltales (@culturaltales) March 13, 2016
A sampling of a collection of international hotel labels acquired last year, a variety of styles and designers pic.twitter.com/89AUPOXkUm
— Letterform Archive (@Lett_Arc) February 25, 2016
LOST DOG: Went missing 35 years ago on a night just like tonight. Translucent gray with hollow, white eyes. Answers to an unspeakable name.
— Night Vale podcast (@NightValeRadio) March 6, 2016
'The Last Hour of the Night’ (1922) by Harry Clarke pic.twitter.com/QCtUri6xnC
— Imaginary Cities (@Oniropolis) March 17, 2016
Comics, illustration, design. #archaeology #history #folklore https://t.co/x0ygiYurh1 pic.twitter.com/vcOsgDxY3J
— Hannah (@DrHComics) March 4, 2016
In the 1800s, novelists concocted elaborate fake histories for mysterious caves in Virginia https://t.co/LFXcUGLvXJ pic.twitter.com/M3gq1Q7GJU
— Atlas Obscura (@atlasobscura) March 3, 2016
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