Phew. It has been some week. I am quite drained, and there is not much I have to say, so I will just leave you with an abbreviated list today.

1. The Ultra-Wealthy Who Argue That They Should Be Paying Higher Taxes (New Yorker - paywalled)

2. There’s an Entire Industry Dedicated to Making Foods Crispy, and It Is WILD (Bon Appetit)

3. Sara Ahmed: Notes from a Feminist Killjoy (Guernica) - I was recommended to read the works of Sara Ahmed when I asked a friend for some introductory texts to feminism, and this interview of hers was quite thought-provoking for me.

4. Seaweed Soup (Miyuk Gook 미역국) (The Rumpus) - So good.

“Not soup. In salad, liquid only coats the surface. In soup, ingredients contribute to a living conversation. Like careful listeners, each ingredient absorbs all nuances of the broth, independently expressing what was learned. Like, seaweed in the sea.”

5. Splendid isolation: how I stopped time by sitting in a forest for 24 hours (The Guardian)

6. The Man Making Rwanda Into a Hub for Physics (Quanta Magazine)

7. Red Sands (Granta Magazine) - very nice piece by Caroline Crompton about WW2-era anti-aircraft bunkers constructed in the Thames estuary.

8. Into the Personal-Website-Verse (Matthias Ott’s personal website)

9. Covid-19 May Worsen the Antibiotic Resistance Crisis (Wired - paywalled)

10. Gratuity: Who Gets Paid When Art Is Free (Image Journal) - nice piece about creators on the internet and how web platforms are swooping in diverting income that the creatives could have made instead. Also talks about the dilemma of:

should I give my art away for free and keep it “pure” or should I try to make (some) money off of it?