The Mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge ( tylervigen.com )
An unimportant mystery
The Kids on the Night Shift (Pulitzer Prize winner) ( archive.ph )
This is part 4 of an ongoing Pulitzer-Prize winning series. Click here for the earlier parts in the series, or to discuss the series as a whole....
Why 1000 Homicides in St Louis Remain Unsolved ( features.apmreports.org )
Old Picture of the Day: The Worst Day of My Life ( web.archive.org )
Can a Big Village Full of Tiny Homes Ease Homelessness in Austin? ( www.nytimes.com )
Invisible Ink: At the CIA’s Creative Writing Group - The Paris Review ( www.theparisreview.org )
I called everyone in Jeffrey Epstein's little black book. ( www.motherjones.com )
Why Can’t Our Friendship Survive Your Baby? ( www.thecut.com )
Blessed are the (tiny) cheesemakers ( knowablemagazine.org )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/9136672...
How Google perfected the web ( www.theverge.com )
We often hear about the latest engagement hacks on other platforms like Instagram, TikTok, or X, formerly known as Twitter. But Google is consequential above all of these, acting essentially as the referee of the web. Yet deep knowledge of how its systems work is largely limited to industry publications and marketing firms —...
Links to every article included in the book 'The Best American Magazine Writing 2023'
The Best American Magazine Writing 2023...
Frozen Alive ( www.outsideonline.com )
50 years in filesystems: towards 2004 – LFS ( blog.koehntopp.info )
I believe Transphobia is Unnatural
I've been interacting with a guy who is very transphobic and it has brought to light the concept for me. Something that has been growing on my mind is that fighting to keep a she||him dichotomy feels unnatural. What do I mean?...
The 160 Year Mystery of the Stone Age Venus Figurines ( www.bbc.com )
High Tech Cowboys of the Deep Seas: The Race to Save the Cougar Ace ( archive.ph )
When a freighter packed with cargo worth $103 million flipped onto its side in the North Pacific, a motley salvage team got the call to save it.
The Case of the Missing Chacmools. Soon after New Age icon and bestselling author Carlos Castaneda died in 1998... ( www.altaonline.com )
The Case of the Missing Chacmools...
Big Milk has taken over American schools ( www.vox.com )
To make beautiful things
I have this beautiful little generator making beautiful images on this beautiful site i didn't make named Perchance....
The Jungle Prince of Delhi - For 40 years, journalists chronicled the eccentric royal family of Oudh. It was a tragic, astonishing story. But was it true? ( archive.ph )
I knew about the royal family of Oudh, of course. They were one of the city’s great mysteries. Their story was passed between tea sellers and rickshaw drivers and shopkeepers in Old Delhi: In a forest, they said, in a palace cut off from the city that surrounds it, lived a prince, a princess and a queen, said to be the last of...
China Is Pressing Women to Have More Babies. Many Are Saying No. ( www.wsj.com )
How an Academic Uncovered One of the Biggest Museum Heists of All Time ( www.wsj.com )
Ghosts on the Glacier ( www.nytimes.com )
Please be dying, but not too quickly: a clinical trial story ( bessstillman.substack.com )
‘They treated me like an animal’: how Filipino domestic workers become trapped ( www.theguardian.com )
