A list of good reads
- Vox has an uplifting report on a new project that maps land restoration efforts around the world—a reminder of the good so many are doing to help nature heal itself.
- The Hindu has an illuminating read on the vegetarian street foods of Kashmir.
- The New Yorker explains why we humans find Wordle irresistible.
- The Guardian is not loving the new Boba Fett series—and explains how Disney ruined one of Star Wars’ coolest characters.
- BBC News has an eerie report on 19 bodies floating in the Yala river in Kenya. No one knows how they died or how they ended up there.
- Rest Of World offers a very good—and heart-rending—profile of one India’s most successful influencers—an entire Singh family which has a total social media following of over 18 million.
- Also in Rest Of World: An intriguing look at the most affordable and accessible form of internet access in the Philippines—mini-internet vending machines called pisonets, which work like old-fashioned pay phones.
- Anita Rao Kashi in Mint Lounge offers an interesting look at the plant-based meat market in India—which is being sold not as an alternative to meat but as an alternative source of protein (to appeal to vegetarians).
- Quartz explains why Olympic athletes in China need to be really worried about their cybersecurity.
- New York Times has an awesome story on the Monkey Queen of Japan—a nine-year-old macaque who fought to become her troop’s first female alpha.
- Cold Takes asks: Where’s the modern-day Beethoven? Despite a vastly larger world population, accessible technology for writing and producing music, and vastly better living conditions, why hasn’t the Western world produced another musical genius?
- National Geographic offers a look at the intriguing future of travel tech—GPS for scuba divers, cars with built-in holographic maps, AR glasses that “paint” virtual arrows on sidewalks etc.
