A list of good reads
- BBC News asks if it’s better to neglect your garden and let nature take its course—rather than doing highly curated tinkering.
- The Guardian tells a harrowing interactive story of a mother shot dead while searching for food in Gaza.
- The Telegraph looks at the current state of play over the Donald’s kalesh with Harvard, as a visa ban leaves 7,000 international students and scholars—700 from India—in limbo.
- BBC Wildlife has scientists predict what would happen to Earth if humans went extinct.
- Vulture does a deep dive into the world of ReelShorts—a Chinese-backed app featuring bite-sized soap operas that’s keeping lesser known Hollywood actors employed.
- Scaachi Koul in Slate narrates her experience of attending Katy Perry’s ongoing tour to understand how the popstar devolved from royalty to punchline.
- Owen Gleiberman in Variety argues that no one in the movies stays dead anymore, and how the fan service of reviving beloved characters can make audiences think nothing is truly at stake.
- The Economist breaks down the ‘stunning’ global decline in parents’ preferences for having boys—a far cry from prior trends of female foeticide cases.
- Aeon turns the clock back to 1895 Vienna to establish how a bizarre theory and a gory surgery help us get a grip on how science and medicine actually work.
- Public Books uses London as a case study to understand what a deep and diverse food culture is made of, and who are the enemies it creates.
- Good Food Movement profiles Babulal Dahiya, a man on a mission to restore biodiversity in Indian agriculture by preserving indigenous crop varieties.
