A list of good reads
- Vanity Fair has an incredible feature on the new (and strange?) BFFs in town: Johnny Depp and Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
- Yohann Koshy in The Guardian has deeply reported a piece on how the 2022 Hindu-Muslim clash in Leicestershire points to the potential impact of Modi’s ultra-nationalism abroad.
- Also in The Guardian: an entertaining and disturbingly accurate look at the concept of ‘popcorn brain’—which is “a metaphor to explain the multitasking and overstimulation caused by the digital world.”
- New York Times (splainer gift link) has a great read on how a Danish husband-and-wife scientist duo discovered that kissing is about 1,000 years older than originally thought.
- Sticking with the theme, New York Times also has a sweet feature on 100 small acts of love. (h/t subscriber Devaki Divan)
- Emily Ballesteros in TIME Magazine (login required) takes a close look at being burnt out and why we are more exhausted now than ever before.
- Vox sounds the alarm on a possible extinction of soft French cheeses like camembert.
- Bloomberg News has an insightful feature on how farmers' protests have become a key battleground across the world in this bumper year of elections.
- Speaking of farmers protests, Arunima Joshua wrote this 2020 feature in Verve Magazine on the consequences of the ‘organic’ food movement on farmers.
- Ann-Marie Alcántara in Wall Street Journal (splainer gift link) looks at the new fad on social media of testing your relationships with small tasks—such as the orange peel test.
