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Quick Links for March 2017

Freelance copywriter Joe Coleman's website is quietly (and LOUDLY) brilliant
Silicon Valley would rather cure death than make life worth living
A map of 20 of the oldest buildings in NYC
Death Sentences: a Tumblr collection of last sentences read before books were abandoned
Andy Baio brought Upcoming back! The community-driven events site is better than ever.
A Dutch town is putting traffic lights on the pavement for heavy mobile phone users
Today the UK formally gave notice of its departure from the EU
Imagine: a black hole weighing as much as 3 billions Suns moving at 4.5 million miles/hour
Roberta Thompson shares the story of her four miscarriages
Before & After Chuck Berry: great interactive feature tracking the influences of Berry's music
Michael Bloomberg on healthcare reform: Stop Blaming. Start Governing.
New research: did humans contribute meaningfully to the creation of the Sahara desert 8000 years ago?
A computer suggests art projects & Nicole He makes them. Like: "Create a carrot that evokes larger social issues."
Moonlight director Barry Jenkins is directing an Amazon series based on Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad
Global weirding: study shows "a clear fingerprint of human activity" on extreme weather events around the world
Help! My SoulCycle Bike Came Loose And Now I'm In Chile
I want to buy Mario Kart 8 Deluxe but then I would have to get a Nintendo Switch, which I'm sure my kids would love
Big Gay Ice Cream will soon be available by the pint
The Matilda effect: the term for when men get credit for the inventions of women
Thelonious Monk's soundtrack for the French film "Les liaisons dangereuses" to be released as a stand-alone album
Scientists at the LHC have discovered five new particles; results are from the oddly named "beauty experiment"
Recent loooong interview with Bob Dylan. Even outside of music, the man has a way with words.
Doctors Without Borders: new shelf-stable rotavirus vaccine may save the lives of 500,000 children every year
A white supremacist travelled to NYC to kill a black person, stabs one to death in Midtown. This is terrorism.
Mister Alphabet is "a figurine designed to bend into every letter of the alphabet"
Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?, a memoir by Alyssa Mastromonaco about working in the Obama White House
Trailer for Salt and Fire, a new thriller directed by Werner Herzog
A new encoding algorithm from Google makes JPEG images that are 35% smaller than with current methods
If, for some reason, you'd like a look back at 1987 (Reagan, Menudo, Black Monday, Baby Jessica, Just Say No)
Clips, a forthcoming video sharing app from Apple (iOS only)
The 13 Best Comedy Specials on Netflix
This is basically perfect: 37 Things Everyone's Rich Friend Had Growing Up
Timebound, a "breaking news" app that lets you relive historic events in real time
Anthony Bourdain talks about his approach to money matters; "[until 44], I never had any kind of savings account"
New Drake
Teens spending 1000s of dollars on party lines was something that happened in the pre-internet 1980s
Now with the link to the actual article. #monday
VR is going to be huge! When they figure out how to keep people from barfing from motion sickness.
The Hate U Give, inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, is the #1 Young Adult book in the country
The Great Barrier Reef is dying and there might not be anything we can do to save it
The rumors are true: Lucky Peach magazine is folding (after a cookbook and final double issue)
Google wasn't mapping the Faroe Islands in Street View, so they started a Sheep View project
Lucky Peach magazine might be folding in May
Taschen's upcoming book of Johannes Vermeer's complete works looks great
After Social Security cards were introduced in 1936, some people opted to have their number tattooed on their skin
Is it better to be born as a French monarch in 1700 or a regular person today?
"Obamacare *is* the bipartisan version of health reform. It accomplishes a liberal end through conservative means."
Don't whine about the lack of VC-subsidized ride-hailing services, agitate for better public transportation
Mermaid toast. :| In the very near future, all food will look amazing with marginal taste and nutritive value.
Meet the long-suffering boyfriends of Instagram
Amasunzu, the traditional hairstyle of Rwanda.
NASA probe photographs space ravioli orbiting Saturn #spaceravioli
SXSW As Cool And As Real As It Gets, Reports Marketing Associate. BURRRRRRRRRRRRRNNNNNN
I Googled "intersectionality" so now I'm totally woke
In some parts of the US, spring has come more than 25 days sooner in 2017 than the 30-year average
Why Is Houston Street Not Pronounced Like the Texas City?
William Shatner's Seat
Futura: the font that escaped the Nazis and landed on the Moon
How was the weight of the Earth determined?
A lengthy report on the current state of food writing
Why it's so important for girls to find role models in female scientists
Drinking all your food as smoothies will keep you feeling full longer
Easy Meals Your Family Can Just Fucking Make Themselves
So, like, how do you, um, stop using filler words? "Hire a friend to punch you?"
Disney is doing a 5th Indiana Jones movie with Spielberg and Harrison Ford
Clarification: the CIA can get into your phones and bypass apps (apps' encryption is still fine)
On the other hand, it appears the CIA can bypass encryption on messaging services on your phone
Teen Vogue spoke to three experts about how to keep your messages secure
Dude jumped over a 4-lane highway on a dirtbike
"You want to stay places that are Instagram-worthy because you are living your life as content"
This seems like a bargain: $14,600 for penicillin mold that originally belonged to Alexander Fleming
In a scientific first, sickle cell disease in a French teenager has been reversed using gene therapy
The New Yorker has built a bot (@tnypoetry) that sends you poetry
New music from Lorde: Green Light (full album out this week?)
A superb interview with David Letterman about retirement & politics
Bob Mankoff is retiring as the New Yorker's cartoon editor
Thomas Keller is doing free tasting menus for kids at Per Se
UN weather agency says Antarctic high temp record was set in 2015: 63.5° Fahrenheit
Buffalo Trace is releasing a special edition 25-year Pappy Van Winkle bourbon. 710 bottles only.
The Morgan Library is trying to recreate the building's 100-year-old smell-scape by sucking them out of old books
Taxing soda causes people to drink less soda
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