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Journalists' investigation of the mysterious street artist Banksy spans England, New York, and Ukraine, pointing to a single name.
Reuters | Simon Gardner, James Pearson, Blake Morrison
Memoir from a musher as she and her sled dogs retire from racing, with photos and a wolf encounter.
The New York Times Magazine | Blair Braverman
And five authors discuss the canine muses credited with improving their writing lives.
The New York Times | Alexandra Alter
Added to the long list of reasons this a difficult time to be a journalist: prediction market gamblers using death threats to pressure them to change details in reporting that would affect payouts.
Times of Israel | Emanuel Fabian
An excerpt from a new book explains how the "internet of things," including your phone and car, opens a door to unprecedented state surveillance.
Spectrum | Andrew Guthrie Ferguson
Thanks to e-commerce and shifting spending, commercial space leased to services now exceeds that leased to retail.
The Wall Street Journal | Kate King
Supply go up, price go down: how policy reforms in Austin drove housing abundance and helped the city buck the trend of endlessly climbing rents.
Pew | Liz Clifford, Seva Rodnyansky, and Dennis Su
Informative interview with an oil industry analyst about how the supply shock of the war with Iran will ripple through the complex system of refineries, potentially drastically raising fuel costs.
Harvard Business Review | Thomas Stackpole
From increasing liability for vaccine manufacturers to undermining trust in vaccines, a comprehensive look at how current leadership may herald the return of measles, rubella, diphtheria, and other diseases.
ProPublica | Patricia Callahan
And new reasons to get the shingles vaccine, perhaps even sooner than current guidance suggests: it may play a role in preventing dementia.
Wired | David Cox
In Oregon, fights over agrivoltaics—solar cells placed over growing crops—bitterly divide neighbors.
Mother Jones | Henry Carnell
On the "trillion dollar bill on the sidewalk" of improving water supply in the developing world, the institutional challenges blocking it, and an example of how to do it right.
Of All Trades | Connor Tabarrok
The story of how a hollow nickel that stumped cops and magic shop owners traced back to a Russian spy.
Mental Floss | Matt Soniak
The headliner of a DC piano bar provides a unique data set of all the songs requested in the past year, providing neat analysis of what songs survive, at least in that context.
Can't Get Much Higher | Chris Dalla Riva and Jesse Rifkin
Two vintage episodes of Doctor Who from the 1960s, thought lost forever, are discovered in a private collection.
BBC | Isaac Ashe and Simon Ward
On the history of Turkish coffee and the evolution of elaborate tools and rituals related to water.
Sprudge | Duygu Kurtuluş
And in bird news, recommendations for six avian books, including The Seabird's Cry, indirect inspiration for the name of our Seabird.
Literary Hub | Eric Wagner
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