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Longform links: entertaining the reader

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)