A list of good reads
- BBC Travel reports on a summer of extremely badly behaved tourists.
- ProPublica reveals how big pharmaceutical companies have blocked the development of a vaccine for tuberculosis—a lethal disease that claims 1.6 million lives each year.
- Kansas Alumni Magazine profiles professor Brian Donovan who teaches an honours seminar on Taylor Swift called ‘The Sociology of Taylor Swift’.
- WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Ethiopia’s prime minister and Nobel laureate Abiy Ahmed are two of Africa’s most prominent leaders—and who are also at loggerheads with each other. Bloomberg News explains why.
- TIME magazine highlights the appalling working conditions of workers assembling iPhones at Foxconn’s factory in Tamil Nadu.
- Splainer subscriber Anita Rao Kashi in Nikkei Asia writes on the growing trend in India of pursuing relationships outside marriage—aided by extramarital dating sites.
- Speaking of dating, LitHub has a meditation on real-life love stories, the popularity of romantic fiction and the tragic end of meet-cutes in the digital era.
- Vox has an interesting read on how scientists are using crabs to save dying coral reefs in Florida.
- Vulture has the disturbing story of how two teenage actors—Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting, stars of Paramount’s blockbuster movie ‘Romeo and Juliet’—were abused and exploited by the famous director Franco Zeffirelli.
- Kat Chow in The Atlantic pens a lovely essay on what it means to lose your family language after immigration.
