Books
- An excerpt from “Coding Kids: Big Tech’s Battle to Remake Public Schools” by Natasha Singer. (nytimes.com)
- Five insights from "The Only Cure: Freud and the Neuroscience of Mental Healing" by Mark Solms. (nextbigideaclub.com)
- An excerpt from "The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn" by Dave Zirin. (newrepublic.com)
- An excerpt from "Finding Renée Richards: The Groundbreaking Story of Tennis’s Trans Pioneer," by Julie Kliegman. (slate.com)
Business
- The global shipping container industry is experiencing strains. (giftarticle.ft.com)
- High profile podcasting companies keep running to trouble, it's now Audiochuck's turn. (bloomberg.com)
Fertility
- What's behind global fertility decline? (sciencedirect.com)
- Relationship equity is necessary, but not sufficient, for higher fertility. (fortune.com)
Environment
- How will Europe remake itself in the face of hotter summers? (newyorker.com)
- Bad things happen when a landfill overheats. (bloomberg.com)
Food
- Why the lab-grown meat revolution failed. (harpers.org)
- How Raisin' Canes attracted such a loyal following. (slate.com)
Longreads
- Is Jane Street experiencing growing pains? (ft.com)
- How Iran's Shaheed drone has transformed war. (wsj.com)
- Senior citizens are often the biggest opponents of developments that would add...senior housing. (bloomberg.com)
- Is the rate of CTE underreported among former NFL players? (nytimes.com)
- How to create a more fair House of Representatives. (nerd4cities.com)
- Stop stressing about where you child goes to school. (auren.substack.com)
- How our leisure time got monetized. (honest-broker.com)