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Hardcore Honey: bell hooks Goes on the Down Low with Lil’ Kim - PAPER

‘Buy the Constitution’ Aftermath: Everyone Very Mad, Confused, Losing Lots of Money, Fighting, Crying, Etc.

The Design Legacy of Covid? It’s All Around You. - The New York Times

A Whale in the Desert – Tristan McConnell

The Mixed-Up Brothers of Bogotá - The New York Times

Ten Questions for Khadija Abdalla Bajaber | Poets & Writers

In Defense of Superstition

Ranked: The 35 Vehicles With the Longest Production Runs

The Odor of Things, by Scott Sayare

Rick Rubin Does Nothing and Everything at Once - The Ringer

African Griot | Kamba Proverbs from Eastern Kenya - Boydell and Brewer

Freediving’s Alenka Artnik: Record Depths on Just One Breath

In Senegal, a Return to Homegrown Rice - The New York Times

Robert Gaskins Home Page

Andy Jassy, Amazon’s New CEO, Enters the Ring | Vanity Fair

How Patrick Sang became more than just a coach to the world’s greatest runners | FEATURE | World Athletics

The Black Widow Bank Robber’s Web of Secrets

The Incredible Link Between Nature and Your Emotions - Outside Online

Renaissance Science – XXII | The Renaissance Mathematicus

The Craziest Sports Story of 2021 Is FC Sheriff - by Grant Wahl - Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Daril Cinquanta helped the FBI track fugitive Lawrence Pusateri - Deseret News

Litquidity Capital Is the Meme King of Wall Street

12 Predictions for the Future of Music - by Ted Gioia - The Honest Broker

Why Scientists Have Spent Years Mapping This Creature’s Brain - The New York Times

Remembering history with Kudzanai Chiurai’s library : New Frame

A story of Marsabit; a study of home

What Is Glitter?

Facebook Groups for Sperm Donation Amid Shortage Benefit Ari Nagel, the Sperminator

How Billie the Dolphin Taught Her Flippered Friends to Bust a Move

Jim Casey: The Unknown Entrepreneur Who Built The Great UPS

Bush Baby — Illino: Truthful African Stories

What Weird Dreams Are For

Thank You for Algebra: Muhammad Ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi

The Obsession

The Passion of Questlove

India’s met department – beyond the life and times of Anna Mani

Disney’s Snow White: The Risk That Changed Filmmaking Forever - Den of Geek

Most of the World’s Bread Clips Are Made by a Single Company - Gastro Obscura

Why the University of Florida gets a ~1% cut of Gatorade profits

Searching for Mr. X - The Atavist Magazine

The Secrets of The World’s Greatest Freediver

The African origins of the name of a black samurai

The Chinese Takeout Box is As American As Baseball and Apple Pie

The Freak Accident That Challenged Rehab Engineering

The little-known story of Serena Williams’ first endorsement deal

Why are hyperlinks blue?

The Gradual Discovery of Glasses

From Lagos to Winchester: how a divisive Nigerian pastor built a global following

A People’s History of Black Twitter, Part I

From homeless to head of a sneaker empire, Jaysse Lopez is the ‘Sole Survivor’

The Data of Long-lived Institutions — Blog of the Long Now

The One-Eyed African Queen Who Defeated the Roman Empire

Supernatural - by Ian Leslie - The Ruffian

Glimpses of ‘Lost Tribe’ Jewish Communities in India and Myanmar

Biz Markie Wake: ‘Just a Friend’ Video Story, Ice-T, Bootsy

The indignity of being observed - Austin Kleon

Rain Boots, Turning Tides, and the Search for a Missing Boy | WIRED

Signature Moves With Sean Bankhead - The New York Times

The disastrous voyage of Satoshi, the world’s first cryptocurrency cruise ship | Cryptocurrencies | The Guardian

Press Secretary Jen Psaki is Good At Mending Fences. Just Don't Call Her Nice. | Vogue

The Housewife - Nneoma Kenure

Why did we wait so long for the bicycle?

The Rise and Fall of ‘ZuckTalk’

The Semiconductor Heist Of The Century

Niela Orr | Omar comin’

Last Resort, Part 1: A Nas Concert Goes Awry in Angola

Scottie Pippen Has Something to Say: On Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley, Kevin Durant, Ben Simmons and More

Kali Letter #10: A Kitchen Of One's Own [Kenya]

Why YKK zippers are the brown M&Ms of product design: look at the little details to judge overall gear quality – The Prepared

Humble Waiter or Son of a King? A Royal Mystery Piques Spain.

Steve Jobs in Kyoto

Souvenir | Roseline Mgbodichinma – Isele Magazine

How the True Crime Junkies of Facebook Unmasked Tatiana Badra's Many Lives

The History of Karate

Roger Federer’s Biggest Legacy? It Might Be His Billion-Dollar Brand.

The Dark Side of Chess: When Is a Grandmaster Not So Grand?

Esther Perel Is Fighting the “Tyranny of Positivity”

Jennifer Hudson on Prepping to Play Aretha, and Singing Her Interview Answers for InStyle's Cover Story

Deal Of The Century: How Michael Dell Turned His Declining PC Business Into A $40 Billion Windfall

Shipwrecked: A Shocking Tale of Love, Loss, and Survival in the Deep Blue Sea

Grief and Conspiracy 20 Years After 9/11 - The Atlantic

How Big Beverage poured empty promises down our throats - Vox

Why Pakistani Mangoes Are Near-Impossible to Find in the U.S. - Eater

The little devil who became a deity: Messi exit leaves a void like no other | Lionel Messi | The Guardian

The Tao of Snoop Dogg - The New York Times

Sour milk by any other name would taste like home

Vettel's fuel sample failure: Why it happened and what comes next

The Tinder Swindler

Why It's Hard to Innovate in Construction - by Brian Potter - Construction Physics

Japanese Marathoner Was a Hero and a Cautionary Tale - The New York Times

A Bronx Tale: One Sperm Donor, 19 Siblings, and Six Decades of Secrets – Mother Jones

Where do African currencies get their names from?

Why People Feel Like Victims - Issue 99: Universality - Nautilus

Neckties Will Never Recover From the Pandemic - The Atlantic

How the President of the I.O.C. Made the Tokyo Games Happen - The New York Times

Review: “The World Is Not Enough” Explores the Failures That Made Ian Fleming | The New Republic

Why ‘care’ and the ‘scare’ are inseparable when you love someone | Aeon Essays

Condoms: global market value 2017-2023 | Statista

The Changing Face of London’s Indian Food Shops — GOYA

On Guard: Curtis McDowald Is Fighting His Way to the Top of the Fencing World | GQ

For Love or Money | History Today

This Little Light Of Mine – Doek!

Africa’s ancient scripts counter European ideas of literacy | Aeon Essays

How A Medieval City Dealing With The Black Death Invented Quarantine : NPR

Jam & Lewis Shaped Pop History. They’re Working on Its Future, Too. - The New York Times

Opinion | The Jeff Bezos Paradox

The ancient word linking Oman, Thailand and aboriginal Australia

It’s Dinner Time on the Space Station. Lobster or Beef Bourguignon?

Simone Biles Finds Her Balance

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

The Masters Review | “This Is For My Auntie Penzi Who—” by Idza Luhumyo

How teenager Joshua Mullins almost fooled Riot Games, Liquid, and TDK in a $42 million ruse

‘The Silicon Valley of turf’: How the UK’s pursuit of the perfect pitch changed football

She Fell Nearly 2 Miles, and Walked Away

Rochester, New York: The City Kodak Built

The Mafia from the mountains

Smokin’ Cy DeVry Was the Original Tiger King

Life and Death on Stromboli Volcano, Lighthouse of the Mediterranean

Accidental Billionaires: How Seven Academics Who Didn’t Want To Make A Cent Are Now Worth Billions

Kylian Mbappé is Born to Run

The hero from the hill country. On Mahendra Singh Dhoni

What it Means to be Free | Bono Sigudu – Isele Magazine

The Tyranny Of Time - NOEMA

Global Shortages During Coronavirus Reveal Failings of Just in Time Manufacturing - The New York Times

The Han Twins. An identical twin lives in the shadow

There Is So Much You Don’t Know About Being a Fly - The New York Times

Issa Rae on Ending ‘Insecure,’ Rebooting ‘Project Greenlight,’ and More | Vanity Fair

A speed walker's Olympic obsession cost him his life - Sports Illustrated Vault | SI.com

My Bizarre Reign as New York’s King of “Virgin Russian Hair”

Early modern coffee culture and history in the Islamic world

Nairobi Nights – Hadithi Hadithi

Laila Soueif | Bidoun

Planet Airbnb: Brian Chesky's plan to conquer a reopened world

How the Harp Got Hip - The New York Times

'If the camel is fine, our life is fine.' But Somali camel herding is in jeopardy.

Fort Bragg Murders: String of Violent Deaths at U.S. Military Base - Rolling Stone

Fashion And Power: 'The African Lookbook' : Goats and Soda : NPR

Incubated Futures: What is a resilient chicken?

Inside the Knicks' secret attempt to lure Michael Jordan from the Bulls

Quanta Magazine

The Woman Who Made Vincent van Gogh - The New York Times

Colonial Scholarship Application – rémythequill

The Gatekeepers Who Get to Decide What Food Is “Disgusting” | The New Yorker

The crazy, mysterious history of sports' most enduring gesture -- the high five

The Secrets of the World's Greatest Jailbreak Artist | GQ

Except for the Miracles | Olúfémi Táíwò

Trapped Aboard an Abandoned Cargo Ship: One Sailor’s Four-Year Ordeal - WSJ

The whitest paint is here – and it’s the coolest. Literally. - Purdue University News

The family with no fingerprints - BBC News

Sócrates – More Than A Footballer – Beyond The Last Man

A Grudge Match in Japan: One Corner, Two 7-Elevens - The New York Times

The Fasinatng... Fascinating History of Autocorrect | WIRED

“Sunrise, Sunset” | The New Yorker

Adolescent Brains Are Wired to Want Status and Respect: That's an Opportunity for Teachers and Parents - Scientific American

Ali-Liston 50th anniversary: The true story behind Neil Leifer’s perfect photo.

Interview with Kenyan author - Nanjala Nyabola | The Republic

How Crying on TikTok Sells Books - The New York Times

How Amber Venz Box of RewardStyle Became an Influencer Whisperer

Clarion Magazine at Boston University

The John Patterson Kidnapping in Mexico - The Atlantic

Digital archives immortalize West African culinary and political history - sahelien.com | EN

BP created 'carbon footprint' as a devious, manipulative PR tactic

Jane Fonda on Love, Parenting, and Her Decades-Long Career in Hollywood and Political Activism

How Apple Is Organized for Innovation

The Lives of Others — The Atavist Magazine

Lewis Hamilton opens up about activism and life beyond F1 | WIRED UK

Touch is a language we cannot afford to forget | Aeon Essays

CVS Health CEO Karen Lynch has a big job: vaccinate America | Fortune

Is a Long-Dismissed Forgery Actually the Oldest Known Biblical Manuscript? - The New York Times

Inside the World’s Largest Free Kitchen

Excel Never Dies - Not Boring by Packy McCormick

Supply of Swab Tests for Covid-19 Rests on Embattled U.S. Company Puritan - Bloomberg

The daily grind - Works in Progress

Opinion | Why Grammy Winners Might Never Sound the Same Again - The New York Times

Why childhood and old age are key to our human capacities | Aeon Essays

How Daniel Kaluuya Makes His Characters Come Alive - The New York Times

Chess.com finds streaming success - Protocol — The people, power and politics of tech

The Last Cassette Player Standing | The American Conservative

'Suddenly, Liverpool was having a pint. Even more of a pint than normal'

Nina Is Everywhere I Go

Tomb of Joshua, Revered Prophet, Beckons Believers in Baghdad - The New York Times

The Most Amazing Bowling Story Ever - D Magazine

When Influencers Make Fools of Themselves - The New York Times

A biography of the penis in the animal kingdom | Aeon Essays

Harvesting My Father’s Mementos – Guernica

Sex Tapes, Hush Money, and Hollywood’s Economy of Secrets | WIRED

When Did Generic Grocery Brands Get So Good Looking? – Eye on Design

Lionel Messi, Barcelona and the Crippling Cost of Success - The New York Times

Origin Stories: D’Angelo | Red Bull Music Academy Daily

Amorphous D.J.'d His Way Through 2020 - The New York Times

The case for opsimaths. Maybe late bloomers aren't so late - The Common Reader

Chef Omar Tate’s Plans for Philly Go Well Beyond Food

Brazilian butt lift: behind the world's most dangerous cosmetic surgery | Plastic surgery | The Guardian

The Extraordinary Trial of the Child Soldier Who Became a Brutal Rebel Commander

Nourin Mohamed Siddig: The African art of reciting the Koran - BBC News

'I didn’t trust my palate or my body or my mind': Covid-related smell loss puts chefs through the emotional wringer

Journey to the Center of the Earth | Outside Online

Cabin pressure: the turbulent history of flight attendants

How The Fugees Greatest Triumph, 'The Score', Became Their Swan Song

The Shocking Meltdown of Ample Hills, Brooklyn's Hottest Ice Cream Company | Marker

Glossary: Democracy | Lapham’s Quarterly

'Anumeric' people: What happens when a language has no words for numbers?

‘A managerial Mephistopheles’: inside the mind of Jeff Bezos | Technology | The Guardian

Every Man Gotta Right to Decide His Own Destiny

Marcus Rashford: the making of a food superhero | Marcus Rashford | The Guardian

How did the Elephant get its Trunk? | History Today

Madras Check

Dee Hock, the Father of Fintech - Net Interest

The Secret Formula — The Atavist Magazine

Food for Dissent, Resistance & Solidarity — GOYA

How Amazon's VP of global customer fulfillment powered the company through the COVID crisis | Fortune

A Brief History of Peanut Butter | Innovation | Smithsonian Magazine

Nikki Giovanni, Finding the Song in the Darkest Days - The New York Times

Meet Virginia Apgar, the unlikely anesthesiologist who saved newborn babies

Asa Asika: The African Crossover Specialist - Afrobeats Intelligence

Curse of the Mummy | National Geographic

Bathroom Reading | Literary Review of Canada

Moxie Marlinspike Has a Plan to Reclaim Our Privacy | The New Yorker

Autopsy History | The Complete History of the Autopsy

To Miscarry A Country - Olongo Africa

Meet the Excel warriors saving the world from spreadsheet disaster

Rum: History and Myths

What If You Could Do It All Over?

Leading By Example: How Naomi Osaka Became the People’s Champion

The Art of Swahili Cooking - Hiistoriya

'Shattered': Inside the secret battle to save America's undercover spies in the digital age

The Ballad of Ron and Dorinda: A Prison-Break Love Story

The Appealing and Potentially Lethal Delicacy That Is Fugu

Super cubes: inside the (surprisingly) big business of packaged ice