Mad World
How we view free time is making us less happy. How to cultivate hope. How to stop languishing. Ready, steady … oh.
Much of white American culture was cooked up by the real estate industry.
Why flight is so controversial in online games.
Armando Iannucci’s epic Covid poem. Six rules that will define our second pandemic winter. Covid was spreading as early as mid-2019. UK private hospitals treated just eight Covid patients a day during the pandemic.
A TikToker disrupted thousands of scientific studies.
Once you see this video of a Welsh seagull, you can’t unsee it. Sorry, Thumper.
Yemen’s floating unexploded bomb.
Maria Ressa’s fight for facts.
P.S., 28 November: That seagull link prompted a post to Metafilter:
You’ll never look at those beady eyes the same way again. Once you see a seagull swallowing a rabbit, you can’t unsee it. Gulls gulp down squirrels, rats, puffins, goslings, pigeons, fish, sharks, and starfish, and hunt yet more pigeons and even octopuses. ¶ In the great circle of life, octopuses in turn drown seagulls, weasels ambush them, ducks attack them, tuna spit them out, and swans mess them right up, though not as much as bald eagles and sea lions (be warned, the last one is extreme, although maybe not from the viewpoint of rabbits, squirrels, rats, puffins, geese, pigeons, fish, sharks, starfish and octopuses). ¶ Just one more, for all you Star Wars Episode VII/VIII fans: Seagull eating a rabbit on The Skelligs (with great commentary from the watching visitors, too).