Welcome back to Tidings! In this issue you'll find stories about cheese, cotton, a fake disaster, and much more. If you're enjoying this newsletter, help us spread the word by sending it to a friend! These links were all shared first by the community on Seabird, our minimalist platform for sharing links. Sign up to check it out on web or mobile and contribute your own recommended links. Elite young runners are becoming freakishly fast On "trackflation," the boom in youth running and the...
11 days ago • 2 min read
Welcome back to Tidings! In this issue you'll find stories about AI, VAR, a puffin-inspired robot, and even lichen. If you're lichen this newsletter, share it with a friend! These links were all shared by our community on Seabird, our minimalist platform for sharing links. Sign up to check it out on web or mobile. Ctrl-Z-the-world A brief history of the undo button. Mercury | Deena Prichep I got slopped A reporter discovers she is the subject of a new biography sold on Amazon and sloppily...
18 days ago • 2 min read
Welcome back to Tidings! Here are this week's selected reads from the many more shared each day on Seabird. Sign up on web or mobile, and help spread the word by sharing online or forwarding Tidings to a friend. The Canadian who steered Europe away from the U.S. Remarkable reporting on how leaders of Canada and Europe have been forced to reckon with the United States as a no longer fully trustworthy ally. (Read part one here.) The Wall Street Journal | Drew Hinshaw, Joe Parkinson, and Daniel...
25 days ago • 2 min read
Happy Independence Day weekend, American Tidings readers! May we suggest declaring your independence from social media algorithms, suppression of links, and the tyranny of short-form video by joining Seabird? All of this newsletter's links were shared first by our community of users on the app or web. And if you're enjoying Tidings, please help spread the word by sharing it online or forwarding this email to a friend. Five words that changed America Recommended Independence Day reading: "It...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Welcome back to Tidings, your weekly roundup of links from Seabird! Download Seabird or join on the web today. What do America's earliest restaurant menus teach us about America? Exploring a new archive of thousands of historic American dining menus, one course at a time. The Pudding Where to find the colors your screens can't show you Your devices can only display a fraction of the color spectrum our eyes can see. To experience the full range, you'll need to leave the house. Ryan Moulton How...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Welcome back to Tidings! An exciting Seabird update: this week we're rolling out push notifications on our mobile apps. In our latest release you can enable notifications for likes, hat tips, follows, and announcements. Download it today! On to this week's links... How La Marzocco perfected the espresso machine A stimulating read for coffee lovers: a peek inside the factory where La Marzocco makes its industry-leading espresso machines. Totei | Oliver Franklin-Wallace The rise and rise of...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Welcome back to Tidings readers. All of the links in this newsletter were shared first by the community of users on Seabird. If you're not yet on Seabird, download the app or sign up on the web for the full experience. Are memories transferable — or edible? A chronicle of some very strange experiments on worm memory and the contemporary scientists struggling to get worms to learn in the first place. Quanta | Claire L. Evans Most flags used to be ugly A case for resisting optimization of flag...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Welcome back, Tidings readers. All of the links in this newsletter were shared first by the community of users on Seabird. If you're not yet on Seabird, download the app or sign up on the web for the full experience. On to this week's links... Off ramp On the problem with ramps, the hip spring vegetable that resists cultivation, and what happens when demand skyrockets. Slate | Danny Palumbo Nothing prepared me for Tilly Norwood Profiling a celebrity gets weird when the celebrity is just a...
2 months ago • 2 min read
Welcome back, Tidings readers. A problem I'm happy to have this week: with so many great links being shared to Seabird, it's harder than ever to select a portion of them for this newsletter! Download the app or sign up on the web for the full Seabird experience. Now on to this week's links... The capybaras aren’t all right The internet's new favorite animal, a giant rodent with an unflappably chill demeanor, faces challenges living alongside humans as it moves from nature to Brazilian cities....
2 months ago • 2 min read