Vulture
Little Richard Put Wild Sex Into the Top 40 for Good
Vulture
20+ min read · 2020-05-10 · The self-described king and queen of rock-and-roll died today at 87.
RIP the Architect of Rock 'n' Roll. A great eulogy from one of my all-time favorite writers on pop music, Bill Wyman.
Guardian music
Too black, too queer, too holy: why Little Richard never truly got his dues
Guardian music
6 min read · 2020-05-12 · How did a turbaned drag queen from the sexual underground of America’s deep south ignite rock’n’roll? We unravel the mystery behind Little Richard’s subversive genius
reasonstobecheerful.world
How a Group of Political Novices Ended Gerrymandering in Michigan
reasonstobecheerful.world
4 min read · 2020-04-27 · Their success proves that you don't need political power -- or a Supreme Court majority -- to redraw congressional districts.
Some hope.
adbusters.org
Digital Bill of Rights
adbusters.org
1 min read · 2020-04-27 · A spectre is haunting you from behind your screen — the spectre of surveillance capitalism. It is high time that digital citizens, in the face of rampant techno-tyranny, openly mount a resistance to…
Basics.
radiohead.com
Radiohead Public Library
radiohead.com
2020-01-20 · An official online resource containing everything we, Radiohead, have ever done, more or less. Videos, music, artwork, websites, merchandise, and assorted ephemeral materials.
Embodying the original spirit of the Internet.
3quarksdaily.com
Sunday Poem
3quarksdaily.com
2 min read · 2020-04-28 · Do not make Grief your God Instead Make it a cup of coffee The espresso percolator wheezing on the biggest eye of the stove Consider the dress line up every spark you own and weep at its small…
Do not make Grief your God.
sensesofcinema.com
World Poll 2019 — Introduction
sensesofcinema.com
20+ min read · 2020-05-01 · It is the project here at Senses of Cinema that we love to present every single year – the annual World Poll. It’s a mammoth effort involving contributors from across the world from a wide range of…
Best films of 2019 from critics around the world.
The Atlantic
Why the Coronavirus Is So Confusing
The Atlantic
20+ min read · 2020-04-29 · A guide to making sense of a problem that is now too big for any one person to fully comprehend
SoundCloud
Classic Pop, in the style of Frank Sinatra
SoundCloud
2020-05-01 · OpenAI is an AI research laboratory discovering and enacting the path to safe artificial general intelligence.
Weird, weird, weird.
The New Yorker
The Coronavirus Is Rewriting Our Imaginations
The New Yorker
4 min read · 2020-05-01 · What felt impossible has become thinkable. The spring of 2020 is suggestive of how much, and how quickly, we can change as a civilization.
I don't all this but Kim Stanley Robinson is one of my favorite writers.
The New Yorker
24 Hours at the Epicenter of the Coronavirus Pandemic
The New Yorker
2020-04-27 · Doctors and nurses, a talk-show host, a congressman, workers in deserted museums and theatres, men on early release from Rikers, and the newly unemployed strained to keep New York City, and…
Fantastic read.
Aeon+Psyche
Why keeping bees means thinking about landscape as a system
Aeon+Psyche
10 min read · 2020-05-04 · The gift of a half-wanted hive took me into the world of bees, kept and wild: a place of generosity and attentiveness
Guardian Books
The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months
Guardian Books
~12 min read · 2020-05-09 · When a group of schoolboys were marooned on an island in 1965, it turned out very differently to William Golding’s bestseller, writes Rutger Bregman
Reasons to be cheerful.
The New York Times
One-Third of All U.S. Coronavirus Deaths Are Nursing Home Residents or Workers
The New York Times
2 min read · 2020-05-09 · In at least 13 states, more than half of coronavirus deaths are tied to long-term care facilities for older adults, according to a New York Times database.
Science Magazine
‘Finally, a virus got me.’ Scientist who fought Ebola and HIV reflects on facing death from COVID-19
Science Magazine
6 min read · 2020-05-09 · Top virologist Peter Piot spent 1 week at a London hospital in April and has been recovering at home since
Nature
Galileo’s story is always relevant
Nature
4 min read · 2020-05-04 · With science denialism stronger than ever, who better to revisit? By Alison Abbott
youtube.com
Zaid Jilani explains what's wrong with the NYT's 1619 Project
youtube.com
2020-05-12 · Journalist Zaid Jilani weighs in on the controversy over the Pulitzer Prize winning 1619 Project that caused a fundamental disagreement over the trajectory o...
Guardian US
He lived in the US for 40 years. Then he became the first to die from Covid-19…
Guardian US
7 min read · 2020-05-12 · Carlos Ernesto Escobar Mejia’s death in San Diego last week was preventable, his sister says, as coronavirus has infected hundreds in Ice detention
