Families are like fudge mostly sweet with a few nuts. Happy First New Year Weekend
Why it's hot on the beach but cold in the surf this summer
If you've wondered why the Sydney seawater is so cold you need to consult the work of Swedish oceanographer Vagn Walfrid Ekman.
Beware 'icecream headaches': Why Sydney's coastal waters are so cool
Bathers hoping to cool off in recent days might have got more than they'd bargained for, with inshore water temperatures well below average.
10 Wildly-Successful Blogs That Earn Outlandish Incomes - Forbes
LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Australian Autonomous Train Is Being Called The “World’s Largest Robot.” LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Australian Autonomous Train Is Being Called The “World’s Largest Robot.”
How to Be an Artist
2018 in Photos (part 2, part 3), Top 25 News Photos of 2018, The Most 2018 Photos Ever, and Hopeful Images From 2018, all from The Atlantic.
Best photos of 2018 from National Geographic.
Pictures of the year 2018 from Reuters.
These Are The Most Powerful Photos From 2018 from Buzzfeed.
Year in Pictures 2018 from Bloomberg.
The Year in Pictures 2018 from the NY Times.
2018 Year in Photos from Associated Press.
2018: The year in pictures from CNN.
Top 100 Photos of 2018 from Time.
Sleepy Skunk took audio and footage from dozens of trailers of movies that came out in 2018 and mashed them together into one mega movie trailer. And it’s actually coherent! Or at least as coherent as trailers for blockbuster movies typically are. I dunno, I’d watch this movie.
Girl meets boy in the workplace, circa 2018. This should be a movie.
We were online content moderators taking down nude photos. All day, we sorted through thousands of photos and messages flagged as inappropriate on a meet-up app. We sat nearby, but our office had a strict no-talking rule, so our relationship began in silence as we sent each other funny things we found via Gchat. This led to more messaging until one day we grew tired of talking about nudes and decided to see each other naked instead.
That’s a story by Kristine Murawski from a relatively new feature at the NY Times, Tiny Love Stories. There are only three other installments so far…it’ll take you about 5 minutes to read through them all.
Banishing Truth Truthdig. On Seymour Hersh, exiled from the Acela Corridor (
Political Apology of a Lingerie Model Politics Slash Letters(witters). Worth a read; the headline speaks to the fact of precarity, not as clickbait.If You’re Over 50, Chances Are the Decision to Leave a Job Won’t be Yours Pro Publica. And only 15 short years until Medicare!A $21,000 Cosmetology School Debt, and a $9-an-Hour Job NYT. From The Department of People Who Do Everything Right and Are Terribly Punished….The Prophet of Envy NYRB. Slow going at first, but gets rolling at “mimetic crises.”
Commentary: How to get over your fear and learn to speak up Channel News Asia. If you make New Year’s resolutions, this one might be worth considering.
