A list of good reads
- Ed Yong in The Atlantic reports on how scientists tracked down a sea-urchin murderer.
- Salon sounds the alarm on long Covid—noting that other pandemics also had similar long “arcs” with severe repercussions.
- When it first launched, BeReal was the ‘it’ social media app but Casey Newton in Platformer argues that it has already peaked.
- Deep Dives has a lovely long read on the dreams of teenage girls in Assam and Meghalaya.
- Nikkei Asia looks at whether the Adani debacle spells the end of a winner-takes-it-all capitalism in India.
- Willy Staley in the New York Times (splainer gift link) has a must-read piece on how Twitter “broke our brain.”
- Cricket Australia looks back at Sachin Tendulkar's unforgettable tour of Australia in 1998 when he obliterated the Aussies.
- Slate has the fascinating story of how alcohol became ‘good for you’ in the 1990s—and why it all fell apart.
- The Print takes a deep dive into the illegal underbelly of Indian academia where professors and PhD scholars are paying to publish in “real-sounding, fake journals.”
- The News Minute looks at the women in Mani Ratnam’s Ponniyin Selvan and whether they match up to the characters in Kalki’s books.
