Travelogue: From Vienna to Pyongyang by rail (vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com)
I hope a blog-style journal is acceptable in this community rather than an essay....
How Pottery Offers Glimpses Into Ancient Foodways (www.sapiens.org)
The Unlikely Struggle Of The Family Whose Neighbor Is Area 51 (2015) (jalopnik.com)
Worth noting there were more developments since 2015 that are worth looking up on this story (wikipedia has a pretty collection of references)
Who was the real Robert Oppenheimer? (www.bbc.com)
Your attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen (www.theguardian.com)
Social media and many other facets of modern life are destroying our ability to concentrate. We need to reclaim our minds while we still can
‘Drought is on the verge of becoming the next pandemic’ (www.theguardian.com)
The Strange & Curious Tale of the Last True Hermit (www.gq.com)
For nearly thirty years, a phantom haunted the woods of Central Maine. Unseen and unknown, he lived in secret, creeping into homes in the dead of night and surviving on what he could steal. To the spooked locals, he became a legend—or maybe a myth. They wondered how he could possibly be real. Until one day last year, the...
Zweig: The writer who dreamed of a world without borders (www.bbc.com)
A special writer with special dreams.
I Was A Cable Guy. I Saw The Worst Of America. (www.huffingtonpost.com)
A glimpse of the suburban grotesque, featuring Russian mobsters, Fox News rage addicts, a caged man in a sex dungeon, and Dick Cheney
The ‘Titan’ Submersible Disaster Was Years in the Making, New Details Reveal (archive.ph)
How Plastics Are Poisoning Us (www.newyorker.com)
Titan meets Titanic (maptia.com)
An article about the Titan from 2021 History was made on July 10, 2021, when Stockton Rush and his team at OceanGate reached the Titanic, at a depth of approximately 4,000 metres, in Titan, the only submersible of its kind
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Requiem for a railway (and others) from 2009~, discussing the economic downfall of the forgotten places of Japan (spikejapan.wordpress.com)
The Body in Room 348 (www.vanityfair.com)
The corpse at the Eleganté Hotel stymied the Beaumont, Texas, police. They could find no motive for the killing of popular oil-and-gas man Greg Fleniken—and no explanation for how he had received his strange internal injuries.
Do Insects Feel Joy and Pain? (www.scientificamerican.com)
The hunt for the Death Valley Germans (www.otherhand.org)
One of the greatest longreads of all time. The tragic story of the search for missing tourists in Death Valley
The Case for Leaving Strangers in Your Family Photos (slate.com)
The Watcher (www.thecut.com)
The true story behind the Netflix tv show: A family bought their dream house. But according to the creepy letters they started to get, they weren’t the only ones interested in it.
The Free Soloist Who Fell to Earth (www.outsideonline.com)
What is Code? (www.bloomberg.com)
Paul Ford goes on a long, meandering, but super interesting account of code as it relates to business and our world today.
The meticulous, ruthless preparations for a second Trump term (www.economist.com)
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My family's slave (www.theatlantic.com)
“She lived with us for 56 years. She raised me and my siblings without pay. I was 11, a typical American kid, before I realized who she was”
Inside North Korea: “We are stuck, waiting to die” (www.bbc.co.uk)
For months, the BBC has been communicating in secret with three North Koreans living in the country.
How To Get Away With (the Perfect) Murder (www.gq.com)
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