A list of good reads
- New Yorker sounds the alarm on news media and how it could be facing an extinction-like event.
- Washington Post (splainer gift link) has an important feature on the journalists killed in Gaza and their heroic efforts to capture the war in the region.
- Charlie Warzel in The Atlantic (splainer gift link) attempts to uncover why the internet is rife with conspiracy theories.
- Also in The Atlantic: Richard A Friedman notes that therapy does not have to be continued indefinitely and people should consider taking breaks from it.
- Quanta Magazine has an interesting feature on what actually happens inside our brains when our mind wanders.
- Sreevas Sahasranamam in The Conversation looks at the interesting intersection between faith, religion and AI.
- Jonathon Keats has a thought-provoking essay in Noēma on how time is experienced differently by plants—and moving away from the conventional human understanding of it could help us connect more to the natural world.
- Wired looks at the controversy surrounding the oldest living dog title awarded by the Guinness Book of World Records.
- Vox takes a look at the current era of self-promotion where it is all about selling yourself.
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Shrayana Bhattacharya’s latest feature on Indian uncles for Mint Lounge looks at their sexual lives that are filled with “pragmatism of polyamory, performative monogamy, small hearts and a large elite crisis of connection.”
