A list of good reads
- This The Atlantic (splainer gift link) piece looks at “love-life balance”—and the wisdom of never letting your personal relationship overtake your life.
- Hakai Magazine has a detailed analysis on how contagious cancers have ravaged the Tasmanian devil population, and what this could mean for the endangered marsupials.
- Freethink explores an alternative to synthetic fibres: did you know adding spider DNA to silkworms creates silk stronger than Kevlar?
- What does it feel like to report from a war zone? Poynter has the experiences of journalists on the frontlines in the Israel-Palestinian war.
- Ethnographic Marginalia offers a poignant essay on the perils of loving a city that doesn’t like you very much—as in Delhi.
- Scroll offers a reported piece on the real cause for the Sikkim floods: badly planned dams. Shock, horror.
- Sarah Stankorb in Slate is horrified that Gen Z types have turned ‘rebellious’ Nirvana tees into preppy gear. Shock, horror.
- If you’re not absolutely sick of reading about her: New York Times magazine (splainer gift link) brings you: ‘This Is Not a Taylor Swift Profile’. Actually, it’s much worse: a first person account of being at a Swift concert in the US.
- Anirudh Kanisetti looks at what happened to Buddhism in the land of its birth in The Print.
- Gizmodo has a very cool piece on an experimental bionic hand called the Mia Hand.
