“Best not to hitch up your wagon to a fish, if you also intend for it to be pulled by a goat.” Strange cases from the Talmud.

↩︎ Talmudology

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Someone needs to get squeezed for streaming platforms to hit their financial targets—and those cries of anguish you hear from musicians reading their latest royalty statements is what that squeezing sounds like.
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Sierra Komar: Today’s “sleep wearable” devices promote rest, but reconfigure passivity as productivity.

↩︎ Real Life

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South Korea counts your age three ways—”Korean age,” “year age,” and the global method—but the system is on the verge of change.

↩︎ The New York Times…

Photographs of Edinburgh between 1957 and 1969, by Robert Blomfield.

↩︎ Robert Blomfield

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Italy developed a system of nameless streets for traveling workers, like circus performers. Now it’s used by homeless people.

↩︎ Atlas Obscura

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“My favorite Barneys was a secret Barneys.” A granddaughter of department store owners memorializes the floors of Barneys.

↩︎ The Paris Review

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I always felt, as a reader and as a reporter, an underlying insistence that conversations about race were about conflict rather than the peculiar ways in which Angelenos construct multiethnic lives together.

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California goes after the fossil fuel industry for its “decades-long plastics deception”—i.e., the lies around plastic recycling.

↩︎ Grist

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