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Quick Links for June 2017

Popularity is killing the NYC subway
Quartz: most bullshit "wellness" products are sold on both Goop and Infowars
Paul Ford had to be quiet on stage for 10 minutes, he did not like it, but he had some thoughts about it afterwards
Politics circa 2017: I Don't Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People
This is a recruitment video for a terrorist organization
Hopefully, there will be a Downton Abbey movie in theaters in 2018
Why are bird eggs shaped the way they are? Also, whaaaaaat: "...most eggs are not egg-shaped"
Painter Salvador Dali's body to be exhumed for paternity suit
Great NY Times feature on OK Computer's incoming and outgoing musical influences
Charles Mann's upcoming book, The Wizard and the Prophet, is now available for pre-order
Electric Objects has been acquired by GIFHY, will cease their hardware biz (still love my EO1!)
Nebraska is the place to be to watch the solar eclipse in August, sez @EricHolthaus
Awesome McMansion Hell blog offline after Zillow sends a cease & desist letter
Conversations, a book of artistic volleys between Nicholas Blechman & Christoph Niemann
Sega Forever: "a free and growing classic games collection of nearly every SEGA game ever released"
Today is the 20th anniversary of the publication of the first Harry Potter book
11 Ways That I, a White Man, Am Not Privileged
New typeface from @HoeflerCo: Inkwell, "a tiny universe of handwritten typefaces"
New typeface from @frerejones: Exchange, "earnest and forceful, compact but not crowded"
New: "The Liberty Foundation supports artists who work on the internet" with $60K fellowships
This review of the latest Transformers movie has to be among the best movie reviews ever written
Daniel Day-Lewis has retired from acting. His last role will be in a PT Anderson movie coming out in December.
Serious Eats' Kenji López-Alt is opening a restaurant in the Bay Area
New book from @anya1anya on family screen time. "Enjoy screens. Not too much. Mostly with others."
Instant purchase: Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls 2. The first book is great.
Andy Baio and Ryan Gantz inspired a song title ("Supercut") on Lorde's new album
Nike and David Chang have collaborated on a Momofuku skateboarding shoe
A 9-minute silent film of NYC shot in 1911, presented by MoMA
Archaeologists Discover Fully Intact 17th-Century Belief System In Ohio Congressman
TIL there's a term for the terroir of oysters: merroir
Holy shit, Amazon just bought Whole Foods (for $13.7 billion)
New kids app from the always-awesome Tinybop: Creature Garden
Nobody Speak, a Netflix doc on the freedom of the press in a Trump/Thiel/Adelson America
Amazon's new CueCat seems pretty cool (and it's essentially free: $20 w/ $20 credit)
We. Are. DOOMED. "Seven percent of all American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows"
YA fiction from @jackcheng: See You in the Cosmos. My son read this a couple of months ago and "really liked it".
Rolling Stone: The 50 Greatest Concerts of the Last 50 Years
Asbury Park FC is my new favorite soccer team
Can a 45-yo guy who last played baseball in middle school hit a home run in a major league ballpark?
You can't make this up: male board member said women talk too much at all-hands meeting about sexism at Uber
Real words that are also valid HEX colors (#DECADE, #BEADED, #B00B00)
Paulina Porizkova: "the American woman is told she can do anything & then is knocked down the moment she proves it"
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by @rgay is out today
Out in October: We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy, a book of essays by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Where's Wallace? A Where's Waldo search featuring characters from The Wire.
The obit writer for The Economist on the art of writing an obituary
American Trees Are Moving West, and No One Knows Why
With two newly discovered satellites, Jupiter now has 69 moons. Nice.
Wow, before-and-after maps of changing NYC neighborhoods courtesy of Google Street View
These flatpacked pasta change shape when cooked
The NY Times crossword puzzle is "old and kind of racist"
Winners of the 2017 Apple Design Awards
A look back as the Strand Bookstore turns 90 years old
Excerpts from James Comey's Opening Statement or from Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day?
Astronomers and arachnologists nerd out on Twitter about the visual acuity of spiders (they can see the Moon)
An oral history of Reading Rainbow
Interesting observation: fish-out-of-water movies (e.g. Crocodile Dundee) have been replaced by superhero movies
I need to incorporate @leahbeckmann's seven-second rule into my life immediately
Tom Cruise is still an entertaining movie star and American Made looks pretty good
Monument Valley 2 is out!
The gender balance of the NY Times Best Sellers list
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is a national treasure, part 281 in an infinite series
Now streaming on Amazon Prime: the must-watch I Am Not Your Negro
In a fight between 10,000 chickens and 20 T. rex, I'm pretty confident the chickens would not win
Studio Ghibli is opening a My Neighbor Totoro theme park in Japan
Polar adventurer @polarben has written a book on Ernest Shackleton's Endurance expedition
LIGO has detected gravitational waves from black holes merging for a third time
Trump announces that the US will withdraw from the Paris climate agreement
High-rent blight on the West Village's once-luxe Bleecker Street
Did not see this coming: Pinboard has acquired Delicious
The First Blue Pigment Created in Over 200 Years to be Used in a Crayon
Brutalist redesigns of popular apps (loved FB, Tinder, and esp Instagram)
The worst famine in 70 years: 20 million at risk of starving to death in S. Sudan, Nigeria, Yemen, and Somalia
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