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by tangue 1431 days ago
From my Kobo vacation readings :

- The internet didn’t kill counterculture — you just won’t find it on Instagram https://www.documentjournal.com/2021/01/the-internet-didnt-k...

- Extreme Athleticism Is the New Midlife Crisis (10 min) https://elemental.medium.com/extreme-athleticism-is-the-new-...

- The Rise and Fall of Getting Things Done (19 min) https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-rise...

- On Aging Alone (19 min) https://thewalrus.ca/on-aging-alone/

- How an Unlikely Family History Website Transformed Cold Case Investigations (31 min) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/science/gedmatch-genealog...

- They Hacked McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines—and Started a Cold War (31 min) https://www.wired.com/story/they-hacked-mcdonalds-ice-cream-...

- Why Revolutionaries Love Spicy Food (14 min) https://nautil.us/issue/62/systems/why-revolutionaries-love-...

- For Hannah Arendt, totalitarianism is rooted in loneliness (13 min) https://aeon.co/essays/for-hannah-arendt-totalitarianism-is-...

- The Olympics Is a Racket (18 min) https://jacobinmag.com/2021/07/olympics-politics-working-cla...