A list of good reads
- TIME looks at how extreme heat impacts your brain and mental health.
- Wall Street Journal (splainer gift link) has a juicy read on a bizarre murder that rocked San Francisco. It has sex, insane amounts of drugs and, of course, tech bros.
- Newsweek looks for scientific answers to the question that haunts (not!) every dog owner: does that furry wretch truly love you?
- New York Times (splainer gift link) has an interesting piece on the ambitious plan to build Indonesia’s new capital city: Nusantara. FYI: the government is moving out of Jakarta because it's overcrowded and it’s sinking.
- At one time, we worried that anything we put on the internet would live forever. Washington Post (splainer gift link) has a must-read piece on why that’s no longer true—as tech platforms purge vast amounts of content.
- Margaret Sullivan in The Guardian analyses the recent collapse of two iconic digital media brands—Vice and Buzzfeed News—and what it means for the future of news.
- Wired has a wonderful profile of Margaret Atwood—who is always a joy.
- The Atlantic tracks the comeback staged by the much-maligned MSG—which may be the secret to cutting down on salt.
- The Print has an excellent read on Trichy cigars that were once the favourite of Winston Churchill.
- For Taylor Swift fans, Heather Schwedel in Slate decodes the big brouhaha among fans over her new boyfriend.
- Rajesh Rajamani pens a lovely essay in Deep Dives on Tamil songs—that were the source of relationship advice for him as a teenager in 1990s Chennai.
