In this edition: black sand beaches, board games, stylish pool players, naughty nuns, mediocre books, gendered bonsai, regional fast food chains, sex toy smugglers, Wikipedists, partygoing tips, eccentric soap-makers, and a ruffed lemur...
Continuing where I left off from mid-June, here’s more links, videos, and other things I’ve found that might be of interest to others. As a side announcement, I'm discontinuing the "Scratch List Fever" posts and will include Wikipedia finds as a category here going forward.
Also, here are the usual reminders:
While much of what’s shown here was published during this period, there’s also a good number of old things. Everything linked is based on the fact I read/watched/listened to it during the past half-month.
These links are posted mostly without comment but if I have anything to note about it, there’ll be an end note referenced. Otherwise, all opinions found in these links are strictly those of their creators and definitely not my own.
Most of these links should be (mostly) safe-for-work but always use your best judgement.
Listicles and How-To Guides
"19 Home Items You Should Be Cleaning Every Month" by Elizabeth Flaherty (Taste of Home)
"100 Little Ideas" by Morgan Housel (Collab Fund)
"How to listen to, and enjoy, classical music" by Lawrence Kramer (Psyche)
"making and keeping friends" by Ava (bookbear express)
"What I Learned From Two Years of Teaching High School CS" by Charlie Meyer (Charlie Meyer's Blog)
"The World's 17 Most Incredible Black-Sand Beaches" by Sophie-Claire Hoeller and Matt Meltzer (Thrillist)
"10 of the Most Valuable Cassette Tapes From the ‘80s and ‘90s" by Nicole Pyles (Mental Floss)
"30 Classic Board Games Everyone Should Own" by Felissa Benjamin Allard and Chloë Nannestad (Reader's Digest)
"10 Best Books On Video Games" by David Heath (GameRant)
"23 Of The Best Oceanside Steakhouses For The Ultimate Surf And Turf" by Melanie Hamilton (TastingTable)
"43 Prompts that Will Change Your Life For The Better" by Benny Glick (Medium)
"The Best Regional Fast Food Chains In Every State" by Gene Gerrard (Mashed)
"The 25 Most Influential Works of Postwar Queer Literature" (NY Times Magazine)
"How to Structure Your Day Better" by Khe Hy (Quartz)
"The Top 13 Video Games of 2013 So Far, Ranked" by Willa Rowe and Hayes Madsen (Inverse)
"About Coffee" (National Coffee Association)
"Flex your social muscles – and stick to one drink: 10 ways to be much more confident at parties" by Viv Groskop (The Guardian)
"How to Learn the Trick of Confidence" by Jaime Waters (The Guardian)
"13 Delicious Sandwich Recipes" by Amy Maoz (Pocket)
"30 Signs You Are Living in an Information Crap-pocalypse" by Ted Gioia (The Honest Broker)
"Best Anime of All Time || Game Rant’s Official Best Anime Ranking" by Mark Sammut (GameRant)
"46 Books that Changed the World" by April Snellings (Mental Floss)
"5 Red Flags That Someone Is Not Fit to Lead People" by Marcel Schwantes (Inc.)
"How to Become a YouTuber: The Ultimate Guide" by Sam Wolfe (Make Use Of)
"How to Drink Bourbon" by Tony Sachs (Inside Hook)
Articles
"The Science of Procrastination—and How to Really Get Stuff Done" by Derek Thompson (The Ringer)
"Against the Cynicism Cycle: Why TV Could Do with Less Moral Grayness" by Noah Ciubotaru (LitHub)
"In Praise of Mediocre Books" by Laura Sackton (Book Riot)
"Why don’t straight men talk to each other about dating?" by Brit Dawson (The Face)
"Is Dr. Bronner's the Last Corporation with a Soul?" by Carrie Battan (GQ)
"The Ironic Radical: On Hayden White’s “The Ethics of Narrative”" by Michael S. Roth (LARB)
"The Terrible Crimes and False Wonders of Mary Bateman, the Witch of Yorkshire" by Catherine Curzon (Mental Floss)
"The Black Widow, a Pool Legend, Reflects on Her Sexy, Boundary-Pushing Style" by Scarlett Newman (Vogue)
"Like It or Not, Indie Rock Is Getting Old" by Jesse Hassenger (Inside Hook)
"Nuns Behaving Badly" by Elena Viale (Vice)
"Stop Calling Each New Disaster “The New Normal”" by Arno Kopecky (The Walrus)
"Who Builds The Internet? Meet Wikipedia's Architects" by Gutes Guterman (Byline)
"Four different ways of understanding AI — and its risks" by Kelsey Piper (Vox)
"Barbarians at the Gate" by Banu Subramaniam (Pioneer Works)
"Pinball is of the body: Why modern tech can't recreate the world under glass" by Rae Hodge (Salon)
"Midjourney Magazine Is Here—and It’s Soulless" by Chris Stokel-Walker (Wired UK)
"The magic of magic" by Nathan Slake (Eclecticism: Reflections on literature and life)
"Parenting Doesn’t Matter" by Daniel Engbar (Slate)
"Meals for One" by Sharanya Deepak (Longreads)
"ADHD Myths, According to People Who Actually Have It" by Ana Tepșanu (Vice)
"Video Game Remakes Are in a Golden Age. That Could Be a Bad Thing" by Will Bedingfield (Wired UK)
"The Joy of Traveling Solo" by Andre Aciman (Town & Country)
"Is MrBeast for Real? Inside the Outrageous World of YouTube’s Cash-Happy Stunt King" by EJ Dickson (Rolling Stone)
"The limits of therapy-speak" by Allie Volpe (Vox)
"Inside a Secret Lesbian Sex Toy Smuggling Ring" by El Hunt (Vice)
"The Lows of the High Life" by Andre Dubus III (The New Yorker)
"Extreme Heat Is Deadlier Than Hurricanes, Floods and Tornadoes Combined" by Terri-Adams Fuller (Scientific American)
"When vegans are worthy of our disdain" by Teresa Mill (The Spectator)
"Turner Classic Movies is a National Treasure" by Richard Brody (The New Yorker)
"The Immortal Mel Brooks" by Judd Apatow (The Atlantic)
"What game theory can teach us about standing up to bullies" by Morgan Kelly (Phys.org)
"Old Weird America" by Justin Taylor (The Point)
"What gender is your bonsai?" by Max Falkowitz (Fire Escape Bonsai)
"Arby's Italian beef" by Dennis Lee (Food is Stupid)
"Life, Death, and Disco in Ibiza With Róisín Murphy" by Philip Sherburne (Pitchfork)
"The controversial rise and uncertain future of box breaks" by Ryan Hockensmith (ESPN)
"When We Are Afraid" by Anne P. Beatty (Longreads)
"How to reduce the damage done by gentrification" by Ian Goldin and Tom Lee-Devlin (The Guardian)
"The Radical Theology of Mr. Rogers" by Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (Life is a Sacred Text)
"The Year of the Slim Volume" by Kate Dwyer (Esquire)
"Cinema as a place of rest" by Lucy Carter (Medicinal Media)
Cartoon by Tom Gauld for The Guardian
Videos
"The Soul of Cinema" (The Cinema Cartography)
"Why every radio station sounds the same" (Phil Edwards)
"Who's Afraid of Marx?" (Wisecrack)
"The Page that Changed Comics Forever" (matttt)
"11 Levels of Drawing Yourself: Easy to Complex" (WIRED)
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