⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ We Have Fire Everywhere
Absolutely incredible NYT Magazine longform with reporting & footage from 2018’s deadliest/most destructive wildfire in California history.
I don’t know how else to explain it. It was all over the news a year ago and easily digestible - “okay, a fire.” Witnessing it is something completely else.
☀️⛵️ LightSail 2 Spacecraft Successfully Demonstrates Flight by Light
This week’s latest attempt has put a solar sail in controlled orbit around Earth.
“Solar sails are propelled by photons from the sun. As the photons bounce off a lightweight, mirrored sail, they give it a small amount of energy that pushes it forward, like wind in a sail on the sea. LightSail 2’s sails are thinner than a human hair and their total surface area is 32 square metres. Each photon imparts a minuscule amount of energy to the sails, but over time the momentum adds up and the spacecraft continually accelerates.”
🍔 The Impossible Whopper is coming to every Burger King in America next week
Plant-based burgers will officially be in the mainstream starting Thursday.
Hey - you know - maybe try one out?
🍝🍜😵 Jia Tolentino Chases Spicy Rigatoni With Karaoke and Too Much Fireball
The editor of the New York Times Styles section has thoughts:
🦖The Wide Ranging Raptors
Ben Falk of Cleaning the Glass takes a look back at what made the NBA Champion Toronto Raptors a success.
“It feels like the basketball world collectively moved on from the Raptors’ championship much faster than I remember happening after previous titles. Maybe that’s just the age we live in, where the speed of information has increased so much that there’s always something else to pay attention to. Perhaps it’s a result of the Kawhi Leonard shaped hole on Toronto’s roster, depriving the Raptors of a true title defense. But whatever the case, I think that’s doing us, as basketball fans and analysts, a disservice.”
Click through for a thoughtful take on learning environments, valuing flexibility, and the benefits of being a generalist.
🐠🍟 I Want to Believe
// and a playlist
Summer Steady
A sleepy collection for anyone avoiding Lolla this weekend. Hope you enjoy.
No Fun by Novo Amor & Gia Margaret
Never Going Home by Hazel English
Off Season by Chairlift (no, not that Chairlift)
All I Wanted by Hannah Cohen
Clarence Difference by Baths
Is It Too Early (Kilmainham) by Saint Sister
Lost Angles (Alternate Version) by James Vincent McMorrow
You Can Feel Bad by Moon Racer
Dark Side of the Moon by Chris Staples
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