This Week’s Selections
Megalopolis: how coastal west Africa will shape the coming century (link)
Protesters in Iran Persist (link)
How Colleges and Sports-Betting Companies ‘Caesarized’ Campus Life (link)
Fixing the Broken Lovelies (link)
Flashback:
Dropped (link)
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Other Items of Note
Underrated reasons to be thankful (link)
Notes on Saudi Arabia (link)
The best NBA prospect since LeBron James (link)
On the bow (link)
Why shouldn’t Poland be richer than Britain? (link)
On the monument to Crazy Horse (link)
Kat Rosenfield on authenticity (link)
An intriguing job ad (link)
The illogic of nuclear escalation (link)
Paper cut cityscapes (link)
Space tourism is coming (link)
Some thoughts about wheat (link)
Notable fiction from 2022 (link)
Death of the key change (link)
A YouTube dispatch while cycling the length of Africa (link)
Two new Beatles music videos (link)
Wikipedia lists common misconceptions (link)
Refugee keepsakes to remember home (link)
Ambient sound recorded in forests around the world (link)
Photo award winners (link)
Wildlife comedy photos (link)
Ocean photography award winners (link)
Is wine fake? (link)
Hundreds of naked Australians (link)
The impotence of being clever (link)
Building the Empire State Building and the WTC (link)
Map of where Anthony Bordain ate (link)
At attack on the Seagram’s building (link)
Ark head (link)
The U.S. needs more housing (link)
Stuff I’ve Been Writing
(link)