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Quick Links for September 2017

September 29
Cheers and congrats to @lauraolin on the last edition of her excellent Everything Changes newsletter
September 28
The Repressive, Authoritarian Soul of "Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends"
So, a thing that happens to me now is that I get chills watching people witness total solar eclipses
Out of all the newly announced Amazon devices, the Echo Spot seems like the winner
Over 50% of peak hour NYC taxi trips would be faster as Citi Bike rides
Said the praying mantis to the hummingbird: first things first, I'll eat yer brains
New antibody attacks 99% of HIV strains, prevents infection in primates; human trials to start in 2018
September 26
Ask A Swole Woman on the quiet epidemic of eating disorders; "Every girl in fucking America has an eating disorder."
September 25
The 100 Hardest Video-Game Bosses, Ranked; loved the inclusion of "landing on the aircraft carrier" in Top Gun
Jelani Cobb on when prominent black Americans speak out: "Ungrateful is the new uppity."
How many species does each plant/animal emoji represent?
Enhance! (Amazing results from a program that creates "high-frequency photorealistic images" from low-res images.)
Growing fake leather via yeast fermentation
September 23
Oooh, new Godspeed You! Black Emperor
September 22
Explore Hogwarts with this online 3D experience at Pottermore
Sometimes, obituary subjects outlive the authors of their obituaries
September 21
Foursquare says foot-traffic in Whole Foods stores jumped 25% after Amazon dropped prices
Good profile of Lynn Novick, the co-director with Ken Burns of excellent Vietnam War documentary series on PBS
This book will be a popular holiday gift: A Die Hard Christmas
Hapax: a word that only appears once in a work, an author's body of work, or in an entire language's writing
On loneliness: "you can be lonely in a crowd, a bed can feel emptier with the wrong person in it"
A foot of rain fell in 44 minutes near Caguas, Puerto Rico. A FOOT.
Why Won't My Therapist Just Tell Me What to Do? A good answer to a question I've often wondered about.
September 20
Whoa: just by looking at your genome, a machine learning algorithm can guess your height to "within a few cm"
September 19
The Crown's Claire Foy will play Lisbeth Salander in the upcoming The Girl in the Spider's Web movie
To build an iPhone X in 1957 would have cost 1000s of trillions of dollars (and it would have been massive)
The late journalist David Carr remembered by colleagues and those he mentored
Spiders! Have! Tiny!! PAWS!!!
September 18
Street view for NYC in the 1980s
Trust me, this short story is as improbably amazing as everyone says and if you haven't read it yet, you should rn
Trailer for Early Man, a new Aardman film
Mycroft Holmes and The Apocalypse Handbook, a new graphic novel written by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Don Draper's carousel pitch in Bane's voice from The Dark Knight Rises
A new way to learn economics through a free online course called CORE Econ
September 15
AtF Spark, a font for making sparklines (tiny inline graphics)
"For the first time in 300 years, there's not a single living person on the island of Barbuda"
The Current War. Benedict Cumberbatch as Thomas Edison? Sure, why not?
Disagree with the lukewarm headline here: even *3 days out*, meteorologists nailed Hurricane Irma forecast
Genius product: actual flip-flops you can buy/wear with contradictory Trump tweets printed on them
Carolyn Porco, imaging team leader for Cassini, writes her final post on the mission
September 14
You Can Either Verify Whether This Inspirational Story Is True Or Share It Now And Reap The Precious Social Capital
The best podcasts of 2017 (so far)
The Great Works of Black Intellectuals Since 1967
Info visualizations of the most typically female and male occupations since 1950
Helen Rosner picks apart Bodega's business model in this keen Eater piece
Leave it to Silicon Valley to reinvent the vending machine (as Bodega!) and look like assholes doing it
I've heard really good things about this biography of Gorbachev (and the end of the Cold War)
An oral history of Curb Your Enthusiasm
September 12
Patty Jenkins to direct the Wonder Woman sequel (yay!)
Satellite photos show that Hurricane Irma scrubbed these Caribbean islands nearly clean of trees
September 11
Red Cross "didn't show up" to operate Irma storm shelters in S. Florida. Again, give $$ to local groups, not RC.
September 10
Photos of northern Cuba after Hurricane Irma passed through
September 8
The Worst Case Scenario For Hurricane Irma Looks Likely. If you're still in the area, be prepared.
September 7
13-yo Ethan Sonneborn is running for governor of Vermont. Pro-choice, pro-pot legalization, pro-LGBT. Thumbs up.
Trailer for Long Shot, an upcoming Netflix true crime documentary in which Larry David (!?) plays a key role
Lego is cutting jobs after sales drop (dunno how this is possible...sets are $$$ and my kids play Lego 23 hrs/day)
New @tanehisicoates: Donald Trump is America's first white President
September 6
Rental Camera Gear Destroyed by the Solar Eclipse of 2017
Modem Butterfly: opera singers dubbed with dialup modem sounds
September 5
$400 juicer company that raised $100M in VC money shuts down. Honestly, who didn't see this coming?
Lineup for the New Yorker Festival looks great this year: Chelsea Manning, Ai Weiwei, Al Franken, Ava DuVernay, etc
This is cool: littleBits' Star Wars Droid Inventor Kit lets kids build their own R2-D2. (My kids love littleBits.)
Proposal for a flag for Mars
Has China's treatment of bike-sharing bikes "revealed essential flaws in the national character"?
September 1
Representation is important: Loving Lion Books offers build-your-own children's books with diverse characters
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