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Khruangbin gets its profile in the New York Times. It is a band that makes chill music from a cow barn in Texas. Listen to their album “Con Todo el Mundo”, if you wish. The name means airplane in Thai — nytimes.com

Did you know that snakes could fly? Fly might be an exaggeration but you will not be disappointed — youtube.com

The Gen Z will help you write your Instagram captions. And the price they ask is not steep. What wouldn’t we do to appear cool on social media? — restofworld.org

Breathtaking, weird photos of insects in Los Angeles. They are pretty hairy  — atlasobscura.com

Are creative people more unethical than others? This study suggests it might be the case. It seems to confirm something I believe we all experience: the amazingly creative care much less about social norms and thus are deemed unethical — apa.org

Dinnerware smashing in slow-motion. Accompanied by Bach’s most famous toccata. Are you having a bad day at work? Watch this, it is oddly relaxing — kottke.org

Practical tips to cope with a panic attack. The general idea is to recognise the associated catastrophic thoughts and breathe calmly — psyche.co

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To counter the attacks of giant hornets, honeybees cook them alive. How? They form a “beeball” around the hornet and they vibrate to increase the temperature (reaching a cozy 46°c) — nytimes.com

Treating a person to a meal never fails. The object you’re looking for is at arm’s reach of where it was last seen, 95% of the time. Read 66 other unsolicited advice from Kevin Kelly, founder of Wired Magazine. I loved that list because it’s non-linear but wise (what I would like Sundry to be) — kk.org

“But and therefore”, not “and then”. Storytelling advice from the creators of South Park — nathanbweller.com

Why do our brains tune out the outside world when we dream? To protect the underlying and ever-mysterious mechanisms linked to dreaming! It is well-known that when we are asleep, our brains keep recording everything that goes on around us. But when we start dreaming (REM phase), stimuli from the outside world (such as a conversation) are not recorded so as to let dreams do their important jobs: emotional balance and consolidation of the day’s learnings — sciencedaily.com

How giant ships are built. Beautiful photo essay in the NYT — nytimes.com

What do the words “spongle” and “teaguely” have in common? They are both the invention of a word-generating algorithm. The AI defines them too. For instance, spongle means to move steadily and delicately. Discover your own fictitious words on this aptly named website — thisworddoesnotexist.com

How intensive care units were invented — bbc.com

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Good morning dear reader, I have missed you greatly.

Thank you for being here. I hope you’ll find this issue interesting!
 

Curated tequila cocktail recipes, courtesy of Unemployed Magazine. Summer is here and we all need a break — unemployedmag.com

Even though Nietzsche’s work cannot be summed up, dance is the simple and beautiful thread that underpins it all. Dancing is an affirmation of life because saying “yes” to life is not an intellectual endeavour, but a physical one. And those who dance free themselves from anger, despair, or bitterness. Let’s dance! — aeon.co — complement with Mary Schmich’s life and dance advice in the Chicago Tribune columns (there’s a funk video of her essay directed by Baz Luhrmann).

The mysterious history of toilet paper — atlasobscura.com

As a parent, should you tell your kids to “live the dream”, or play it safe? Here’s the testimony of Bert Stratton, father of Vulfpeck (Madison Square Garden headlining funk band) founder, Jack Stratton — washingtonpost.com

Tilda Swinton directs a weird music video starring her dogs. The music is “Rompo i lacci”, composed by Handel, for his opera “Flavio” — classicfm.com

Mapping olive trees in the Mediterranean bassin — vividmaps.com

A Japanese toy brand makes drunk figurines (yopparai) to remind you of your bad decisions. Click to see these beautiful representations of drunken people — spoon-tamago.com

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Paul Romer, Nobel laureate in economics, goes to Burning Man. There, he claims, might be the solution to urban planning — nytimes.com + learn everything about the NYC street grid

The history, economics, and environmental impact of air conditioning technology — theguardian.com

Chess players can burn 6,000 calories a day during a competition. They have the same blood pressures as professional athletes. And can lose up to 1 kilo per day. Why is that? Stress and anxiety. So yes, you can shed weight by sitting idly for hours. A fascinating read — espn.com

The science of addiction, by Judith Grisel, a previously-addicted scientist. A chilling finding: “primates given ecstasy twice a day for four days (eight total doses) show reduction in the number of serotonergic neurons seven years later.“ — marginalrevolution.com

How to trade FOMO (the fear of missing out) to JOMO (the joy of missing out) — nesslabs.com

Why are we so afraid of monsters? Their distinctly unnatural shapes and figures are surprising, which makes them hard to ignore. In turn, the ideas and symbols they represent become very spreadable — nautil.us

A new study claims that people are talking faster in less-efficient languages, such as Japanese or Basque — theatlantic.com

How the Egyptians built the pyramids of Giza, or a tutorial in how to build pyramids, if it strikes your fancy — analog-antiquarian.net

Curated technology links

For the news/media industry, the Spotify business model is not appropriate. Perhaps technology for personnalisation is better — niemanlab.org

In 2015, conversational ecommerce was hailed as the future of online shopping. It did not turned out that way. Massive, topical group chats can act as a useful, crowdsourced concierge service. Very interesting — a16z.com

How the iOS App Store search algorithms favoured Apple’s own apps, with impressive and useful data graphics — nytimes.com

Face recognition and the ethics of AI — ben-evans.com

How is a video game programmed? — quora.com

In other words, today’s cloud and mobile companies — Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, and Google — may very well be the GM, Ford, and Chrysler of the 21st century. The beginning era of technology, where new challengers were started every year, has come to an end

Stratechery

At last! Silicon Valley’s newest trend: make a profit

About 40% of American heterosexual couples meet online. This is crazy data.

Travis Kalanick is selling all his Uber shares www.bloomberg.com/news/arti…

Maybe the strategy was not Lindy? eu.usatoday.com/story/spo…

Practical tips for defusing tension at the holiday dinner table

“While rushing the Bill Clinton DVD to market, we inadvertently shipped out 100 copies of true hard-core nasty-style pornography to our customers. When we asked people to send their porn discs back so that we could send them the proper thing . . . . no one did.” — www.quora.com/What-are-…

Antibiotics resistance, Estonia, the next dot com bubble, metro logos, and Jamaican sprinters are on the menu for Sundry’s new issue. It’s a weekly reading list for curious minds distilled from 70+ eclectic sources. Subscribe here: sundry.ulysse.xyz/subscribe  

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