Hi, it’s been a happening and rough week and I haven’t had time to put together what I usually do - here’s a list of nice pieces without my usual commentary.

1. America’s Wildest Place Is Open for Business - about Alaska and allowing it to be explored for energy purposes.

2. Meet the People Who Listen to Podcasts at Super-Fast Speeds

3. Orhan Pamuk: Taking Photographs in Istanbul

4. Underscores, Optimization & Arms Races - about the origins of search engine optimization (from [this lovely newsletter](http:

//tinyletter.com/threeweeks/)).

5. The Last of the Iron Lungs - Iron Lungs are used as artificial respirators for polio survivors.

6. The Rise and Fall of the English Sentence

7. What AlphaGo Zero teaches us about what’s going wrong with innovation - take a step back and look.

8. The Desirability of Storytellers

9. Fox 8 by George Saunders: a fantastical tale from the Man Booker winner

10. New Zealand’s War on Rats Could Change the World - truly. CRISPR is a powerful and dangerous tool.

Will be back next week; have a good one. - Kat