The Revolution Will Not Be Curated

From content to coffee beans to stylish, DIY scarves at the corner boutique, everything in America seems curated now, so how did the larger culture appropriate the job of an art gallery? And how does this process influence politics and our sense of truth?

 

Source: The Baffler
Published: Mar 7, 2017
Length: 10 minutes (2,698 words)

The Philosopher Queen: Rebecca Solnit

A profile of Rebecca Solnit, prolific feminist author and climate change activist. Writer Keziah Weir takes a look at how ground-breaking and crystalizing Solnit’s writing about patriarchy has been, and appreciates the influence it’s had on her and many other women.

Source: Elle
Published: Mar 2, 2017
Length: 15 minutes (3,791 words)

Dispatch From a Refugee Camp in Greece

David Farley spends a month volunteering in a refugee camp on the Greek island of Chios

Source: AFAR
Published: Mar 2, 2017
Length: 10 minutes (2,551 words)

Shorting a Rainbow

A must-read by Sheelah Kolhatkar. An activist hedge fund thought it had the perfect target by shorting Herbalife, a company accused of being a pyramid scheme that preyed on poor people. It turned into all-out war between investors and the company.

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Mar 6, 2017
Length: 37 minutes (9,364 words)

How Did the Lakers Get Here? The Inside Story of the Buss Drama

The Los Angeles Lakers’ president and owner, Jeanie Buss, is running the franchise the way she believes her father, Dr. Jerry Buss, intended, but off the court, the siblings who inherited stakes in the team from their father are playing some strong offense.

Source: ESPN
Published: Mar 8, 2017
Length: 22 minutes (5,731 words)

Pandas Will Fix Everything

How importing cute Chinese guest workers on temporary visas became a cuddly “Kumbaya” dream for New York’s rich and powerful.

Published: Mar 8, 2017
Length: 11 minutes (2,938 words)

Big Tobacco Has Caught Startup Fever

“It’s not smoking. It’s platform-agnostic nicotine delivery solutions.”

Published: Mar 8, 2017
Length: 16 minutes (4,083 words)

Everything About Mars Is the Worst

It may be the worst, but this jerk planet is still humanity’s best hope for another home in the cosmos.

Published: Mar 9, 2017
Length: 9 minutes (2,475 words)

The Truth Is Out There (About Menopause)

In this conversation, Gillian Anderson and Jennifer Nadel reflect on the maddening and sometimes little-known symptoms of perimenopause and menopause to get more women talking about the flow and ebb of the female reproductive cycle and how it affects them, their work, their partners, and their families.

Source: Lenny
Published: Mar 7, 2017
Length: 6 minutes (1,713 words)

Going Underground: Inside the World of the Mole-Catchers

Great Britain is home to approximately 31 million moles, and the competing Guild of British Molecatchers and Association of Professional Mole Catchers are out to get them — and each other.

Source: The Guardian
Published: Mar 8, 2017
Length: 17 minutes (4,469 words)