A list of good reads
- Vox explains how the cult of consumerism created a world filled with badly made products.
- Down to Earth on how the destruction of karewas—plateaus of alluvial soil—in Kashmir poses a threat to the cultivation of local crops like saffron.
- New York Times has an interesting piece on the arc of streaming—which was supposed to spell the end of television. Instead, streaming formats look a lot like TV today.
- Author Akhil Sharma pens a wonderful essay in the New Yorker on trying to become a middle-aged father.
- Salon comes bearing unwelcome news about insects: thanks to climate change, flies are taking over the world, while moths and bees disappear.
- The Guardian looks at efforts to create a variety of wheat that is resistant to heat and droughts—which may save humanity from the worst effects of global warming.
- Peggy Drexler in CNN offers a scathing but good-spirited critique of Prince Harry’s constant need to overshare.
- Two good food reads: BBC News on why comfort food differs in every region across the world. Bon Appétit on the latest food lifestyle: the social omnivore, who is vegetarian at home but eats meat when out with friends and fam.
- Adam Gaffney in The Baffler has a piece on the ICU—which represents the promise and peril of modern medicine which can now keep humans alive… but at what cost?
- Vogue has a very good essay on breast-feeding—and our refusal to acknowledge just how difficult it is.
