A list of good reads
- Governments always blame ‘mob anger’ for violence—Raheel Dhattiwala in Scroll explains why that’s just plain wrong.
- Washington Post (splainer gift link) has the fascinating story of two great white sharks who may have formed an unlikely bond. Reminder: sharks are loners.
- Sticking with animals, The Print has a lovely piece on the Mumbai Zoo’s successful penguin project.
- Paromita Vohra in Mid-Day calls out the “#BoreMatKarYaar lecturebazi” of ‘Made in Heaven’.
- Mark Harris in Slate has an on-the-nose piece on the controversy surrounding Bradley Cooper’s prosthetic nose—which he donned to play Jewish conductor Leonard Bernstein.
- Bustle reports on the increasing fascination with seeing celebs eat chicken on shows like ‘Chicken Shop Date’ and ‘Hot Ones’.
- Quartz explains why a $40,000 Nvidia chip is the most coveted piece of hardware in the world at the moment.
- Wall Street Journal (splainer gift link) reports on Wall Street’s worries about Elon Musk—in the wake of his strange plans to cage fight Zuckerberg.
- Vanessa Friedman in New York Times (splainer gift link) questions the value of celebrating images of former supermodels who “look so retouched that they seem more like A.I.-generated bots than actual people.”
- CNN offers a new strategy to help you deal with narcissists—’grey rocking’—which involves boring them to death:)
