01-018

1. Searching for Susy Thunder* (The Verge)

2. Lower the Interest Rate on Your Technical Debt (Shaun Gallagher)

* Sit down with your favorite hot beverage to read this one. It is good.

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01-017

1. Mavericks owner Mark Cuban to offer cheaper prescription drugs to Americans (Deadspin)

2. My Hideous, Comfortable Gamer Chair Fills Me With Existential Dread (Kotaku)

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01-016

1. The Race to Save Hip-Hop’s Lost Eras (Pitchfork)

2. What if a law on the books derails the 2024 presidential election? Trump’s team tried it in 2020. (Grid News)

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01-015

1. Your teen's being sarcastic? It's a sign of intelligence (BBC)

2. Against the survival of the prettiest (Works in Progress)

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01-014

1. Why Hong Kong may become a living laboratory in search for Covid-19 answers (Stat News)

2. Five Trends that will Shape Urban Africa in 2022 (This Week in Africa)

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01-013

1. So Does Elmo Have a Philadelphia Accent? We Asked an Expert (Philly Magazine)

2. The rise and fall of Esprit, San Francisco’s coolest clothing brand (SF Gate)

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01-012

1. The Right Eye of Daruma (Time, 1967)

2. The forgotten medieval habit of ‘two sleeps’ (BBC)

3. Researchers say they may have uncovered who betrayed Anne Frank’s family to Nazis (Washington Post)

4. Kazakhstan’s protests vanished from view in an internet blackout. Now the race is on to gather digital evidence (Rest of World)

5. Ghosts of War in a Wisconsin Forest (The New Republic)

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01-011

1. Major US Companies Slam Voter Suppression Laws Then Donate to Their Sponsors (Read Sludge)

2. Jan. 22, 1973: The day that changed America (Washington Post)

3. Police in this tiny Alabama town suck drivers into legal ‘black hole’ (AL.com)

4. New breakfast cereals from AI (AI Weirdness)

5. Kate Hudson’s Absurd Empire (Amy Odell)

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01-010

1. How the Potato Chip Took Over America (Smithsonian Magazine)

2. Trolling, doxxing and false arrests: How governments are using tech to intimidate critics in Southeast Asia (Rest of World)

3. Berlin is planning a car-free area larger than Manhattan (Fast Company)

4. What Does a Vow of Poverty Mean? (Bruderhof)

5. Here’s how Ohio won a bid by Intel to build the world’s largest chip factory (Dispatch)

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01-009

1. New York City owns a creepy island that almost no one is allowed to visit — here’s what it’s like (Business Insider)

2. The World According to Jeff Goldblum (GQ)

3. Those Extremely Wrong Topps World Series Cards Might Or Might Not Be The Future (Defector)

4. These vending machines sell internet access five minutes at a time (Rest of World)

5. The Real Places That Gave Rise to Southern Fictions (The New Yorker)

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01-008

1. Mushroom leather just got one step closer to the mainstream (Vogue Business)

2. ‘War Is Coming’: Mysterious TikTok Videos Are Scaring Sweden’s Children (Defense One)

3. A ‘thrilling’ mission to get the Swedish to change overnight (BBC World Service)

4. The Rise of A.I. Fighter Pilots (The New Yorker)

5. Columbia’s Last Flight (The Atlantic)

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01-007

1. The Tragedy of Macbeth: Palace Intrigue (American Society of Cinematographers)

2. Fossils that ‘clearly foreshadow’ modern humans are 30,000 years older than we thought (Inverse)

3. The anime 'Dune’ DAO learns about copyright (Garbage Day)

4. A Grand Unified Theory of Buying Stuff (Wired)

5. 'World first’ vegan violin created using berries and pears in Malvern (BBC News)

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01-006

1. Anthony Bourdain’s Secret Diaries (Rolling Stone)

2. No Word for Stranger: The Migration Gravel Race (Albion Cycling)

3. How The mRNA Vaccines Were Made: Halting Progress and Happy Accidents (New York Times)

4. Why the Smithsonian is changing its approach to collecting, starting with the removal of looted Benin treasures (Washington Post)

5. The Assassination of Drakeo the Ruler (Los Angeles Magazine)

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01-005

1. Climbing Mount Huntington: A Harrowing Tale of Alaskan Mountaineering (Field Mag)

2. How Twitter rolled over to get unblocked in Nigeria (Rest of World)

3. To Counter Climate Change, We Need to Stop Burning Things (The New Yorker)

4. The True Story Behind an Iconic Vietnam War Photo Was Nearly Erased — Until Now (New York Times Magazine)

5. Inside David Granger’s Farewell Party With Bill Murray, Tom Hardy and James Franco (Hollywood Reporter)

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01-004

1. The Lawlessness That Cops Ignore (The Atlantic)

2. Driving the States of Maine (New York Times)

3. ‘Louie Louie’: Indecipherable, Or Indecent? An FBI Investigation (NPR)

4. 16 Things to Know Before You Go to Kathmandu (Roads and Kingdoms)

5. How BuzzFeed News revealed hidden spy planes in US airspace (Columbia Journalism Review/BuzzFeed News)

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01-003

1. What It’s Like to Be a USFS Wilderness Ranger Intern (Field Mag)

2. A Times journalist’s diary inside the fall of Afghanistan (LA Times)

3. 3,600-year-old tsunami ‘time capsule’ sheds light on one of humanity’s greatest disasters (National Geographic)

4. In the World of Ultralight Hiking, Everything Weighs Something (Outside)

5. Fake Shutters: The Redundant Facade Design Flourish that Critics Love to Hate (99% Invisible)

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01-002

1. How the U.S. Is Recovering Oil from a Nuked Warship (Popular Mechanics)

2. The White Darkness (The New Yorker)

3. Get Schooled in the No-Nonsense Art of Survival (Outside)

4. Inside the Cultish Dreamworld of Augusta National (The New Yorker)

5. Not Fuzz (The Atavist)

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01-001

1. Russia Reopens the Last Czar’s Palace, a Century After His Execution (New York Times)

2. The Craziest Sports Story of 2021 Is FC Sheriff (Futbol with Grant Wahl)

3. As Its Population Soars to 40, Rum Isle Glimpses a Future in the Mist (New York Times)

4. New England Is Crisscrossed With Thousands of Miles of Stone Walls* (Atlas Obscura)

5. The Jonathan Computer (Stories of Apple)

* These walls are like weeds in the woods where I grew up. Pike and Wayne Counties are not New England, but they are New England adjacent. Absolutely fascinating to think about early settlers clearing those fields and trying to farm them. Hills! Boulders! So many reasons to not farm that land!

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