A list of good reads
- Molly Young in New York Times (splainer gift link) details her miserable week in the ‘happiest country on Earth’—Finland.
- Scroll introduces the South Asian Dance Intersections (SADI)—a new academic journal documenting histories of dance in the region that were previously hidden and ignored.
- Good Food Movement outlines the promises and perils of farming fish, shellfish and aquatic plants in India.
- Decadent milk chocolate filled with pistachio cream, tahini and shards of knafeh—Dubai chocolate has conquered the world. BBC News traces its rise.
- Sticking with Dubai, Wall Street Journal (splainer gift link) breaks down the happenings at ‘Money Rain’—a two-day long, very wild party featuring the biggest names in crypto and 15,000 fans.
- Washington Post (splainer gift link) lists how habitually messy people can learn to be tidier—from adopting the ski-slope method to creating a holding box.
- There are two types of poopers, according to Self. Find out which one applies to you lol!
- By profiling ‘Longplayer’ at London’s Trinity Buoy Wharf lighthouse, Financial Times (splainer gift link) asks how to write a song that will play for a thousand years.
- Vox analyses what all the worst first dates have in common.
- Aeon has an essay on the lasting popularity of the weird paradox of ‘Schrodinger’s cat’—and what it means for the future of quantum physics.
- Public Books makes a case for public domain as the hero of all things horror film and TV adaptations—citing 2024’s ‘Nosferatu’ and 1978’s ‘Dawn of the Dead’ as examples.
- The Atlantic (splainer gift link) offers an excerpt from Honor Jones’ novel ‘Sleep’—about a newly divorced young mother forced to reckon with old secrets when she takes her kids to her childhood home.
