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Quick Links for December 2015

The fine art of manufacturing authenticity
"The house was very quiet." A Visit from St. Nicholas in the style of Ernest Hemingway
"Pants Dance" is the best ad you didn't see this year
Invasion of the octopus plants
One architect is a man. Another architect is a woman. Which one do you think is more creative?
The artisanal undertaker
"So my son says, 'What's a desk job?'"
The story behind "Bone Crunchers"
Probably not a very good tattoo to have if you don't want to get arrested
The case of the accidental "Star Trek" Starfleet uniform
Every dawg has its day
Help, I'm addicted to frequent-flier miles
The best video essays of 2015. Watched several of these, lots of good stuff here.
How Ken Burns would have covered the events of Star Wars a la "The Civil War"
The seminal Chicago publication Gaper's Block is shutting down in January. Sad, but well done.
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Follow-up to a previous link: the antidepressant link to autism is overblown
Pilot is a new podcast where every episode is a pilot for a different type of podcast
The world's biggest things are being built right now
Yesterday was the 3rd anniversary of the Sandy Hook shootings. Here's a list of all the ppl who died that day.
Jealousy List 2015: Bloomberg staffers share the pieces from 2015 they wished they'd published
The top 25 science stories of 2015. Pluto, CRISPR, water on Mars, etc.
Cormac McCarthy's Home Alone; "he lights firebits in a scullery bowl to ape the scream of gunfire"
Maternal exposure to anti-depressant SSRIs linked to autism in children
76 Viral Images From 2015 That Were Totally Fake
Pitchfork's 100 best tracks of 2015
Sickening AP investigation: if you've eaten shrimp lately, some of it was likely peeled by slaves in Thailand
Behind-the-scenes photos of Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon
NYC's IFC Center is playing a bunch of Studio Ghibli films this month
It's Time to Ban Guns. Yes, All of Them.
New book from @kevin2kelly, The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
Citi Bike has improved greatly over the past year. Here's how they did it.
I'm Comic Sans, asshole; "I'm the best thing to happen to typography since Johannes fucking Gutenberg"
Season 2 of the blockbuster podcast Serial has begun.
NASA has publicly available APIs for images, sounds, satellite imagery, asteroids, Mars photos, and more
TIL that Phil Hartman designed the logo for Crosby, Stills, and Nash
Has the founder of Bitcoin finally been revealed?
New paper from HBS: toxic employees are more of a drag on your business than not finding super-productive ppl
Basically Twitter is just an extremely well-capitalized One Direction fan site
Thanks to Elmo, "Sesame Street is now a less sophisticated and less useful tool for kids to learn from"
Finally, some good climate news: for the 1st time, global emissions dropped while economy grew
An alphabetic look at the typography of Broadway from the Financial District to the northern tip of Manhattan
Food52's world map of cookies
An ancient Greek papyrus fragment of the Gospel of John was discovered on eBay (opening bid: $99)
Why NYC doesn't know where their subway trains are
Gun Industry Executives Say Mass Shootings Are Good for Business
The magical CRISPR gene editing technique is already revolutionizing "our basic understanding of the living world"
The Best Longreads of 2015
A big selection of funny and clever animated GIFs from 2015
Bill Simmons interviewed President Obama for GQ
From the New Yorker, a list of their articles that were adapted into books or movies
BREAKING! Colin Nissan wrote a sequel to It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers via @josueblanco
Advice if you're an American and you'd like to travel to Cuba
What's coming and going on Netflix this December
A list of the best 100 articles written in 2015
The hilarious @fireland has a Kindle book out:
Tobias Frere-Jones releases his first font from his new foundry: Mallory
Amazing story: marathoner Andrea Duke, who's 36, running competitively for 2 yrs; she qualified for Olympic Trials
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