Hey folks,
We made it to two years of the newsletter! Thank you all for reading and sharing your favorite corners of the internet with me.
Stay safe and healthy, and please get vaccinated.
Here are your September links:
Adaptation - Ambition alone isn’t satisfying us, and it never will.
Bard Behind Bars - The memoir of a Shakespeare professor who begins teaching in the solitary confinement unit of a supermax prison.
Cascatelli - Folks, there’s a new pasta shape in town.
Diagnosis - I’ve dealt with health anxiety for a while now, and this story from a doctor who was convinced he had ALS resonated deeply with me.
Explain it to me - Did anyone else try watching indoor cycling at the Olympics? The rules are bananas.
Fame - Quotes from famous people on fame.
Ghost Light - Broadway is coming back, and theaters are turning off their ghost lights.
Horror in the sky - When a skydiver is knocked unconscious in midair, another diver comes to his rescue. And we see it all in first-person. Get ready to hold your breath.
Incarceration - A representation of how many people are incarcerated right now.
Jet - Supersonic flight might be right on the horizon (again).
Killer Outfit - Want to buy James Bond’s clothes?
Legacy - This Atlantic article has been making the rounds, and for good reason. “Grief, conspiracy theories, and one family’s search for meaning in the two decades since 9/11”
Maddening - These jigsaw puzzles would drive me crazy.
Norm Macdonald - The legendary comedian has died at age 61. Here’s one of his (rightfully) most famous jokes, as told to Conan O’Brien.
Outlook - New UN climate report summarized: Not great!
Picture Perfect - Here are your finalists for the 2021 comedy wildlife photography awards!
Q & A - I shared the last interview John Mulaney gave with Seth Meyers before he went into rehab. Now he’s back, and he’s had…quite a year.
Recycling - Should we keep recycling? Are we recycling too much? Is the system broken? Yes. And no.
Suit Up! - We’re closer to the Iron Man suit than we think.
Time - The magazine just released its “100 Most Influential People of 2021” list. (Possible paywall)
UX - This is how we all experience the internet, and it’s infuriating.
Venus - Before we went to Mars, the Soviet Union sent probes to Venus. Here are the only existing photos from the surface.
Water World - How civil engineers are protecting New Orleans from hurricanes.
X - Pebble art. It’s way cooler than it sounds.
Yes - The origins of some of our most common words. How did we end up with yes, yeah, and aye?
Zapped - This bug zapper gave me far too much joy this summer. It’s amazing how satisfying it is to hear a mosquito *snap* against it.
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See you in a month,
-Brady