A list of good reads
- Financial Times (splainer gift link) traces China’s podcast boom, covering topics from basketball to history—while steering clear of state censorship.
- The Atlantic (splainer gift link) has a warning on the perils of AI-driven falsehoods, in light of meme quotes wrongly attributed to author John Scalzi.
- Wall Street Journal (splainer gift link) takes a peek inside Silicon Valley’s growing obsession with having smarter babies.
- Aeon makes a case for doodling—’witty wotty dashes’ that serve as the freewheeling emanations of our pixelated minds.
- Angelina Eimannsberger in Public Books pens an essay on our golden age of online reading—in which social media hype mainstreams genre fiction.
- A team of scientists say they can diagnose health problems by smelling your body. BBC News has more on this significance of body odour.
- Karnataka-based farmer Rama Ranee in Good Food Movement offers lessons in crop choices that involve being mindful of the presence of wild animals.
- ESPNCricinfo profiles the dozens of young refugees who fled war in Syria and found their love of cricket in Lebanon.
- Looking ahead to the 2032 Olympics, The Guardian asks whether crocodiles and canoeists can coexist in Queensland’s Fitzroy river.
- Also in The Guardian: Natasha Ginnivan talks about a growing and healthier shift among older women embracing their age. For example, Andie MacDowell sporting her greys and Pamela Anderson going makeup-free on red carpets.
- New York Times (splainer gift link) reveals iconic showbiz duo Penn & Teller’s greatest magic trick—making us think they’re not friends off-camera.
