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Profile of Whole Earth Catalog founder Stewart Brand, now 87 and publishing the first of a planned 13 new books.
The Guardian | Steve Rose
The dark side of the "ShantyTok" trend: the story of an Argentinean sea shanty band dominated by an abusive "Captain" and a Welsh town's assistance in the mutiny against him.
The Atavist | Peter Ward
Longtime thrifters lament the changes wrought by TV shows and the internet, putting once esoteric knowledge at every buyer's fingertips.
The Walrus | Steve Burgess
Investigating the rise of torn A.C.L.s, particularly among young women playing soccer, and why a training regimen that could help prevent them is not in wider use.
The New York Times Magazine | Craig Welch
Considering the workplace effects of AI with a look back at computers' impacts on secretarial work: "Computerisation turned everyone into an accidental secretary. AI will turn everyone into an accidental manager."
Rowland's Newsletter | Rowland Manthorpe
Meanwhile, more states are passing mandates requiring schools to teach students how to write in cursive—even if teachers never learned the skill.
USA Today | Phaedra Trethan
"To be a parent is to be a permanent tourist in a constantly evolving foreign city, which also happens to be your home." A lovely essay on the experience of parenting.
Derek Thompson
Rapid response to the war in Iran from an expert in American foreign policy at Georgetown University in Qatar.
Systemic Hatreds | Paul Musgrave
On lifestyle tax havens, remote work for the wealthy, and the challenge of maintaining a culturally rich city when capital is less tied to location.
The Wall Street Journal | Richard Florida
Good news for some Americans looking to leave: a new law in Canada opens citizenship to many more people with documented Canadian descent.
National Post | Stewart Lewis
Moving to space, on the other hand, presents potentially insurmountable challenges to the working of the human body.
Slate | Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz
All kinds of things can complicate a promising real estate deal. An on-site community of "aging nudists who have no plans to move," for example.
The New York Times | Ronda Kaysen
Reviewing Callahan's new album My Days of 58: "those willing to wander alongside Callahan will find the artist as poignant and enigmatic as ever while considering a life with more sunsets behind him than ahead."
Paste | Matt Melis
Visits to the working class PMU bars of France, dwindling in number, unsuited for Instagram, but essential to their communities.
Pellicle | Anaïs Lecoq
From 2025, a look back at Pace Picante's memorable late 1980s commercials, when a consumer brand could joke about capital punishment for using the wrong salsa.
The Lightshot | Roger Marshall
Not birds, but very cute: what mounting tiny backpacks on bats reveals about their hunting strategies.
The Conversation | Leonie Baier
In Pacific Northwest seabird news: a visit to Destruction Island to check on the auklets, from the new book Seabirds as Sentinels.
Pacific NW Magazine | Eric Wagner
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