A list of good reads
- M Neelika Jayawardane in Al Jazeera offers a scathing take on the World Press Photo of the Year—which showed a grieving Gazan woman with a dead child.
- Washington Post explains why an abandoned ship in the South China Sea could trigger the next war in Asia.
- An online quiz asks women: “Picture yourself alone and unarmed in the woods. Would you rather encounter a bear or a man?” Glamour explores the reasons behind the near-universal answer.
- W David Marx in The Atlantic (splainer gift link) argues that the internet has made everything searchable, knowable, or purchasable—therefore destroying the value of discovering new things.
- Speaking of new things, Vox takes a look at the comeback of lip glosses in makeup cases.
- The Guardian looks at the dwindling numbers of vultures in India—and their threat to Parsi funerary traditions.
- Mongabay highlights a growing waste problem: mountains of discarded husks of tender coconut—a summertime favourite.
- Vanity Fair investigates the Vatican's controversial role in the development of the world's first fertility drug.
- Max Martin in Scroll looks at the lessons other Indian cities can learn from Bangalore’s water woes.
- Every Indian kid has been bullied by adults about their bad posture. New York Times (splainer gift link) interviews the author of a new book that breaks the big news: It’s all a big fat lie!
