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Quick Links for May 2017

Inspiring story about how the founders of Method hustled their way into a massive household products business
Video tutorial from 1995 about how to access the internet with Prodigy
Record high tides in Hawaii a sign of things to come (because of climate change)
U2 fans still flock to the site of the band's Joshua Tree album cover photo shoot
Business or Pleasure? A new comic by Chris Ware for the New Yorker. (I've definitely taken trips like this.)
How to Navigate a Career Change, advice from 10 people who have switched careers
A moving story of a man who chose when to die. "This was an Irish wake, without grief's frantic edge."
A World Without People, a collection of photos of places humans have abandoned
The 50 most beautiful shots from the Star Wars movies
Ambient sounds from different neighborhoods in NYC
Get your arguing pants on: The 100 Best Burgers in America
Marc Newson's $12,000 hourglass
No, Soylent isn't Healthy. Here's Why.
Ten years of Jezebel: the website that changed women's media forever
The Queens Museum is doing a Kickstarter for an exhibit on urban projects that were never built in NYC
The Killers' Mr. Brightside has appeared on the UK Top 100 singles chart every year since 2004. Why?
Excited for my pal @rosecrans's newest novel The Last Kid Left coming out next month
This is fun: Brick Block is like a mini Minecraft for building brick apartment buildings
Are pop music lyrics getting more repetitive? Are pop music lyrics getting more repetitive?
Best Picture winner Moonlight is now available on Amazon Prime
25-minute recap of the 1980 Wimbledon final between McEnroe & Borg, which some call the best match ever
Shia LaBeouf as John McEnroe in an upcoming film about the Borg/McEnroe Wimbledon final in 1980? Ok.
Svalbard Global Seed Vault, situated far north to minimize temp changes, floods because of melting permafrost
A new 35mm print of Reservoir Dogs is showing at Film Forum for the rest of May
I love this story. I worked with Nick long ago & he's exactly as described in the article. V happy for them!
No surprise here: largest measles outbreak in Minnesota in 30 years caused by anti-vaccine propaganda
Trailer for Netflix's Dark Crystal reboot
Craig Mod has a new podcast about making books called On Margins
More Anthropocene evidence: humans are "responsible for a huge explosion in the diversity of minerals on Earth"
Now on Kickstarter: replicas of the Pioneer Plaque engraved by the original craftsman
From Chelsea Manning's Instagram account: "First steps of freedom!!" (in Chuck Taylors)
Chelsea Manning was released from prison this morning
Over 500,000 copies of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls have been sold. Outstanding!
A bunch of creative ways to repurpose your big blue IKEA bags
Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science is now available online for free
It's not just the bees that are dying. Where have all the insects gone?
Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian foreign minister and ambassador
Looks like they're doing an Arrested Development season 5
This is it and then it wasn't, an oral history of The Strokes
Quiz: Can You Tell What Makes a Good Tweet? (Wooo! 21/25!)
Only 36% of Americans polled were able to correctly locate North Korea on a map
Kendrick Lamar + 80s aerobics video = your happy Sunday
The Kindle version of @austinkleon's Steal Like an Artist is only $1.13 today
"I respect any motherfucker who can paint the hell out of light & water"
"The painful verdict is all but indisputable: The golden era of Pixar is over."
A 2013 paper on whether the Sun's galactic spiral arm crossings cause mass extinction events on Earth
Is an Open Marriage a Happier Marriage?
Recently discovered color photos and videos of the Soviet Union in the 1950s
The Magic Calendar: a cool concept for an e-paper wall calendar
RIP Robert Miles. Dreamland was a favorite album in the late 90s.
In 2014, an all-girls team joined a U14 boys soccer league in Spain. This year, they won the league.
Dreaming the Beatles is getting lots of good reviews; "the best book about the Beatles ever written"
"I asked Tony Hawk if he would teach me how to ollie and he said yes"
How to read an egg carton; "Cage Free" and "Free Range" sometimes don't mean that much
One-Sided Marriage: "My husband, Yasushi, hasn't spoken to me in a whole year."
The Museum of Broken Relationships
How to Learn New Things as an Adult
Being alone can be good for your mental health
Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest by @zeynep
British food explained for Americans
Predator at the Chessboard: A Field Guide to Chess Tactics
According to the WHO, "every $1 invested in sanitation yields, on average, $5.50 in economic returns"
A short film from 1943 about the development of the Jeep
The image on the Post Office's upcoming solar eclipse stamp changes when you touch it
Over 200 free art books from the Guggenheim Museum collection
HBO is planning four Game of Thrones spin-off shows (following Disney's lucrative Marvel/Star Wars franchise moves)
Three recent stories of big-business innovation
I have wanted something like this for years: a brake light that gets brighter the harder you step on the brakes
Seeing Theory: A visual introduction to probability and statistics
Entertaining explainer about white dwarf stars (aka "star corpses")
Advice for those funding creative work: "unless you're 100% sure the artist is wrong, go with their vision"
Take Esquire's music IQ quiz. (I somehow got 245/250. What the hell do album covers even look like anymore?!)
"A new generation is embracing the subversive charm of the unibrow"
Radiohead to release a 20th anniversary edition of OK Computer w/ 3 unreleased tracks & 8 B-sides
Enjoyable read: Uber's CEO cancels a conference talk and Swisher & Mossberg absolutely DRAG him for many paragraphs
Kickstarter campaign for The Aviary Cocktail Book
The future of football, F=ma, and how the game might change to make it safer
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