01-078

1. From Socks To Sushi Rolls – Japan’s Superior Convenience Stores (Sabukaru Online)

2. An Amazon Delivery Drone Crashed and Caused a Large Fire (Futurism)

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01-077

1. A Long Way Home for ‘Looted’ Art Is Getting Shorter (New York Times)

2. The Tank That's Tougher Than Wildfire (Popular Mechanics, 2018)

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01-076

1. Saving the Sounds of the Early 20th Century (Atlas Obscura)

2. Abundance, Exploitation, Recovery: A Portrait of South Georgia (New York Times)

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01-075

1. The Amazing Rattletrap Beach Races In Australia (Silodrome)

2. Mementos Mori (The Baffler)

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01-074

1. LEGO Sets Are Better Investments than Stocks, Bonds or Even Gold (Architectural Digest)

2. ‘I’m really just high on life and beauty’: the woman who can see 100 million colours (The Guardian)

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01-073

1. The Revenge of the Hot Water Bottle (Low-Tech Magazine)

2. The ’80s are Back, Baby (AIGA Eye on Design)

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01-072

1. Nothing Sacred: These Apps Reserve The Right To Sell Your Prayers (BuzzFeed News)

2. The Cult of Casey's: How Gas Stations Became Essential to American Culture (Men Yell at Me)

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01-071

1. Investigating the origins of seven-layer dip (Snack Stack)

2. The Unlikely Art of Backyard Adventuring (Beside)

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01-070

1. Before Jerry Sandusky, Penn State football had another serial sexual predator. This is the untold story of his crimes and the fight to bring him to justice. (ESPN)

2. Wind Passed Coal, Nuclear Power in U.S. for First Time on Record (Bloomberg)

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01-069

1. Inside the New York Public Library’s Last, Secret Apartments (Atlas Obscura)

2. Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid (Atlantic)

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01-068

1. Among Ukraine’s Foreign Fighters (New York Review of Books)

2. Tanis: Fossil of dinosaur killed in asteroid strike found, scientists claim (BBC)

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01-067

1. Tiny cars and massive lithium deposits: The unlikely quest to build electric vehicles in Bolivia (Rest of World)

2. Instead of a Wall, a Binational Park To Be Built on Border of Texas & Mexico (Good Good Good)

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01-066

1. Have Americans Been Mercilessly Squashing a Creepy Bug for Nothing? (Atlantic)

2. An Adventurer's Guide to Georgia (the Country) (Field Mag)

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01-065

1. How to Want Less: The secret to satisfaction has nothing to do with achievement, money, or stuff. (Atlantic)

2. New York Times updates Twitter policy for reporters* (Hill)

* This is something I’ve long thought: Social media posts do not belong in news stories. Use them as a starting point to contact whoever purportedly said them, but don’t go find a post from buttslol42069 and give it to me in a news story like it’s anything other than hot garbage.

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01-064

1. Virtual Insanity — Filming Alex Honnold for VR Requires Climbing With Him (Inside Hook)

2. Women’s Climbing & Mountaineering Book Roundup (She Explores)

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01-063

1. Inside the Frenzied World of Rare Watches and the Rich People Who Love Them (Vanity Fair)

2. The Patagonia vest endures in San Francisco tech circles, despite ridicule (NPR)

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01-062

1. Betty Reid Soskin, America’s oldest active ranger, retires at the age of 100 (Guardian)

2. What Car Stuff Do You Want to Do When This Is All 'Over'? (Drive, 2020)

   • See also, Mitsubishi Delica: All You Need to Know About the Japanese 4x4 Van (Field Mag)

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01-061

1. Mexico City and the pitfalls of becoming a remote work destination (Vox)

2. Love, Hope, and Worry in Drought-Ridden Page, Arizona (Morning Brew)

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01-060

1. Online shopping in the middle of the ocean (Rest of World)

2. The Incredibly Satisfying Birth of a Marble (Waxy)

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01-059

1. A Word…* (Patagonia)

2. The View from Warsaw (Baffler)

* I don’t climb, but I do hike, and the scars of tungsten-tipped hiking sticks are absolutely apparent on rocks along any popular trail. I saw them across the entire Presidential Traverse, Mounts Madison to Pierce, in the White Mountains in New Hampshire in 2017—right as I stabbed my own tungsten-tipped hiking stick onto the same rocks. Leave No Trace doesn’t mean Leave A Little Trace, or Leave No Trace But These Poles Help Me Get Up Here. Chouinard makes an interesting point—if you can’t do it with equipment that doesn’t permanently scar nature, maybe you shouldn’t be there until you can.

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