A list of good reads
- Wall Street Journal (splainer gift link) has an exclusive on Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s quiet return to daily operations—as he helps build its long-awaited AI model Gemini.
- Arwa Mahdawi in The Guardian offers five golden rules to spot an idiot.
- Erica Vital-Lazare’s incisive and poignant essay in The Baffler traces the parallel between blackholes and her complicated relationship with her father.
- Scroll offers an eye-opening ground-report on the bulldozing of a Muslim family’s home amid DJ music and beating drums.
- Vox lays out the effects of extreme heat on physical and mental health.
- Internet Freedom Foundation has a very important and relevant read on the data privacy concerns raised by our smartphones.
- TIME magazine looks at the latest research on why some people do not experience Covid symptoms—it’s all in the genes.
- The Atlantic offers a fascinating read on drastic personality changes that take place past the age of 60.
- Melissa Johnson attended a destination wedding in 2017 that required 96.5 kilometres (60 miles) of on-foot trekking through the Guatemalan jungle. Her essay in Outside is every bit as entertaining as you’d expect.
- Mint Lounge has a lovely read on young Indians who dream of building a career in Western-style dancing.
- Did you know that Paris is poised to experience the return of a devastating 100-year flood? The Dial explains why.
