A list of good reads
- The Guardian offers a colourful account of what may have gone wrong with Ever Given—including Egypt-mandated pilots (to guide the ships) who often “must be ‘lubricated’ with cartons of Marlboro and goodies… leading to another crew nickname for Suez: the Marlboro canal.”
- Also in The Guardian: Salman Rushdie writes on the 40th anniversary of ‘Midnight’s Children’—and takes a grim view of the state of our nation.
- In Level: The six most annoying job interview questions.
- Will Burrard-Lucas in Atlas Obscura writes of the hunt to photograph the black panther and “the challenge of capturing something almost impossible to see.”
- Is longer sex necessarily better sex? A sexologist offers answers in Well+Good.
- Long Reads has a lovely essay on the reunion between John and Paul—five years after the Beatles broke up.
- Vanity Fair has a delicious read on the case of the acrobatic and elusive book thieves in London.
- The Atlantic has a thought-provoking essay on the real roots of midlife crisis—and what the vast body of literature tells us.
- MIT Technology Review looks at the consequences of millions of young women using face filters to alter their appearance.
- Hackers in China are breaking into home security cameras to get intimate footage and sell them as home sex videos. South China Morning Post looks at this scary trend.
- The Hindu looks at the greatest pandemic effect: An epidemic of domestic violence!
- Also in The Hindu: An interview with a team of engineers who built an affordable world class ventilator in just 90 days.
- Rachel Brodsky in The Independent calls out female pop stars like Taylor Swift who offer ‘woke’ messages warnings against bigotry—but do very little to rein in their toxic mobs of fans.
